Update: URL’s in the post were not functioning properly, and have now been fixed. Today we are please to announce that a public beta of Office Environment Assessment Tool, a beta of Office Code Compatibility Inspector and a draft of the Assessment and Remediation Guide are now available for download at the new Office 2010 Application Compatibility resource page on MSDN
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Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Beta Now Available
It’s been long awaited, but Office and SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 was finally announced today at the PDC keynote. What was announced was the general, public availability of Office and SharePoint so anybody can go and download the bits and get started—for MSDN subscribers the bits were released on Monday.
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office and sharepoint 2010 at pdc 2009
Today's guest blogger is Pavlo Pedan of ARGO Business Corp. He has 15 years of experience with Access and has a great site of tips at http://sites.google.com/site/msaccesscode/ . As we all know, a List Box control has a Fore Color property.
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Download all of the PowerPoint presentations used in the SharePoint 2010 Learning Course on Channel 9.
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Download: Office 2010 Developer Workshop on Channel 9 Presentations
In this blog article, we’ll step through using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 for building a rich application in Excel. Note: following screenshots describe the SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) functionality for a feature codenamed Gemini.
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Using PowerPivot with Excel 2010
Update : If you would like to sign up for the beta program for the tools, please email the following alias. mailto:OFAPPCPT@Microsoft.com Update: Read more details about the tools in these two subsequent posts: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/11/10/office-2010-application-compatibility-deep-dive-on-the-code-compatibility-inspector.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/11/02/office-2010-application-compatibility-deep-dive-on-environment-assessment-tool.aspx Hello, my name is Michael Kiselman, I am a technical product manager driving Office 2010 application compatibility program on Office developer marketing team. I’d like to share our exciting news about application compatibility we’re unveiling today at the SharePoint Conference
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Announcing the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program
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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DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007
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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Adding Repeating Data to PowerPoint
Creating mashups in SharePoint 2007: Recruiting scenario
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Creating mashups in SharePoint 2007: Recruiting scenario
Waking up this Monday morning, there is tons of information on SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview from Microsoft. More then its’ typical for pre-beta. With the initial information that is coming out of the technical preview of SharePoint 2010, I have a strong belief that this version of SharePoint, will be its finest. Sure there are huge improvements coming but I’m taking about getting them right. Web-Based Office The biggest news to come out of Redmond, most certainly a direct challenge to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out lightweight FREE Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. What’s even bigger news is that Microsoft says that its browser versions have been tested on all major browsers aside from Internet Explorer, including Firefox and Safari. SharePoint 2010 Changes What changes are coming to the sneap peak of SharePoint 2010 ? Here is a complete list that will be updated: New User Interface including new Ribbon Web Edit Silverlight Web Part Rich Theming Multiple Browser Support Visio Services SharePoint Designer Business Connectivity Services (the evolution of the Business Data Catalog) SharePoint Workspace Rich Meda Support Streamlined Central Administration SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer Usage Reporting and Logging Large List Resource Throttling Unattached Content Database Recovery Visual Upgrade Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools Language Integrated (LINQ) for SharePoint Developer Dashboard Business Connectivity Services Client Object Model (OM) If you would like to see how the improved the interface, experience and approach has been with SharePoint 2010, then check out the first link below. Additional Reading http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/ The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 First Take: Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Office 2010 revealed in great detail via Microsoft videos Microsoft unveils Office Web Applications 2010, Mobile 2010
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SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview Released Today