by on August 5, 2010 Leave a Comment

Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions

I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality. You can read my previous blog posts about it here and here .  In today’s post I’m going to briefly highlight a few small, but nice, code editor capabilities that are enabled when you install the free extensions (and which I didn’t highlight in my previous blog posts).

Read the original: 
Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions

Filed Under: .NET, Access, Code, Microsoft, Windows, Word Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
by on August 2, 2010 Leave a Comment

Creating XLLs with Add-In Express.NET – Part 2

This is the second article about creating XLLs with Add-In Express.NET and it will focus on creating a Setup package for our solution. The first article about it can be viewed here . Creating a Setup package is also very easy and straightforward with the Add-in Express.NET tool; we add a Setup project to the solutions

Read the original here: 
Creating XLLs with Add-In Express.NET – Part 2

Filed Under: .NET, Access, Excel, Office News, Windows, Word Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,
by on April 21, 2010 Leave a Comment

SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit Increased to 10GB

Great news for SQL Server Express users today! We increased the maximum database size in SQL Server 2008 R2 Express from 4GB to 10GB . You can try it out today – just go to SQL Server 2008 R2 Download Page and select “SQL Server 2008 R2 Express” from the menu on the left side of the page: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2Downloads.aspx   FAQ Is the database size limit increased in all editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express? Yes, SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Tools and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Advanced Services will allow 10GB databases as well.

Read more from the original source: 
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit Increased to 10GB

Filed Under: Microsoft, SQL Server Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
by on December 9, 2009 Leave a Comment

Application Compatibility and Microsoft Office Solutions (+ another installment of “Rock Thought”)

When I was a consultant my customers ranged from small companies to big Fortune 100 enterprises.

Read more from the original source: 
Application Compatibility and Microsoft Office Solutions (+ another installment of “Rock Thought”)

Filed Under: Articles, Code, Cool Tools, Microsoft, Office Developer Tools, VBA Tagged With: , , , , , , ,
by on December 4, 2009 Leave a Comment

Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Beta Now Available

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

Original post:
Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Beta Now Available

Filed Under: .NET, Code, Cool Tools, Microsoft, Office Developer Tools, VBA Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , ,
by on November 19, 2009 Leave a Comment

Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010

In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Lily shows off the new SharePoint feature and package designers in Visual Studio 2010 and how they make packaging up and deploying your SharePoint customizations easy. As she dives deeper into the tools, she also demonstrates the flexibility and control you have in specifying what features go in what packages across projects in your solution as well as how to modify the manifests to meet a variety of developer needs.

Read more from the original source:
Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010

Filed Under: Microsoft, Office Development, Samples, SharePoint, VSTO Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
by on November 14, 2009 Leave a Comment

Build navigation UI with Access 2010

Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, a PM on the Access team responsible for Access form and report designers.

More:
Build navigation UI with Access 2010

Filed Under: Access, Excel, Windows Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,
by on November 2, 2009 Leave a Comment

SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour

Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, we’ve got a number of wonderful features this release and we’re really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user interface, of SPD 2010

Original post:
SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour

Filed Under: Access, Microsoft, OBA, SharePoint, Windows Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
by on August 24, 2009 Leave a Comment

Complete Guide to Making Outlook Faster (Than Molasses) [Microsoft Outlook]

If you are stuck using Microsoft Outlook to send those TPS reports at work, you've already experienced just how painfully slow it can get—but with a few quick tips you can make it usable again. Install Service Pack 2 (or later) While you might keep up to date on all of your Windows patches, too many people are running outdated versions of Microsoft Office (not to mention other applications). You'll want to install the very latest service pack—because Service Pack 2 has fixed a ton of performance issues for users with large mailboxes or anybody using IMAP to access their email.

Original post:
Complete Guide to Making Outlook Faster (Than Molasses) [Microsoft Outlook]

Filed Under: Access, Business Intelligence, Microsoft, OBA, Office News, Outlook, Windows Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
by on August 17, 2009 Leave a Comment

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

Read the original here: 
DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007

Filed Under: .NET, Business Intelligence, Excel, Microsoft, Office 2007, Office Development, VSTO Tagged With: , , , , , , ,
« Older Posts