Access 2010 Custom Themes

Today’s guest writer is Steve Greenberg.

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Access 2010 Custom Themes

DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007

This month I have an article on DevProConnections: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007 In this article, I talk about how a lot of applications that need to take advantage of Microsoft Office can do so without going through COM. Many programs that need to process documents often require manipulation of the file formats directly and doing that through the Office component object model won’t scale very well. It also requires that Microsoft Office be installed to run

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Adding Repeating Data to PowerPoint

In a previous post, I showed you how to create a product catalog in a Word document using the Open XML SDK . I also showed you how to make PowerPoint a reporting application based on data within a database . Today, I am going to show you how to create a product catalog in a PowerPoint deck using the Open XML SDK.

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Implementing Validation in WPF on Entity Framework Entities

I’ve blogged before about implementing validation on LINQ to SQL classes as well as how to customize the display of error messages in WPF . In this post I want to show how you can use these same techniques to validate entities coming from the Entity Framework (EF). Like LINQ to SQL classes, Entity Framework entities are implemented as partial classes so that you can extend them with your own code on top of the code that the designers generate for you.

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Extending SharePoint: Checking if a List exists

A common problem when working with the SharePoint Object Model is getting a handle to a list. Very often we find ourselves writing this: 1: try 2: { 3: using (var web = site.OpenWeb()) 4: { 5: if (web != null ) 6: { 7: try 8: { 9: var list = web.Lists[ListTitle]; 10: } 11: catch (ArgumentException) 12: { 13: web.Lists.Add(ListTitle, ListDescription, SPListTemplateType.GenericList); 14: } 15: } 16: else 17: { 18: Console.WriteLine( “Unable to open web site.” ); 19: } 20: } 21: } 22: catch (Exception ex) 23: { 24: Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); 25: } This adds a list if it doesn't exist on the site

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Week Numbers in Excel

Today’s author is, Ron de Bruin, an Excel MVP . You can find more useful tips from Ron and links to Excel add-ins at his website: http://www.rondebruin.nl/ There are four primary week numbering systems in use worldwide

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Week Numbers in Excel

Microsoft warns of Google Apps Sync for Outlook issue

Microsoft has responded, sort of, to Google's delivery of a free Exchange migration tool for Outlook users by trying to poke holes in the end result. More specifically, the company claims that the tool has a "bug/flaw" that causes Outlook search to stop working. Obviously, the solution is to stop using Outlook, but I'll let Google communicate that.

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Retrieving Word Content Based on Styles

In previous posts, like Importing a Table from Word to Excel , I showed you how to retrieve content within specific content controls. In these posts, content controls were used to add semantic structure to a document, where this structure aided in retrieving and inserting content

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Excel Services Getting Started – Pt3 EWA

This continues my previous checklists here and here on getting started with Excel Services. In this post, I’ll append a walkthrough for using Excel Web Access. 5

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Developing for Office and SharePoint Server 2010 (Christin Boyd)

I get a lot of questions about the future.  When will Visual Studio release?   First half of 2010

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