User Interface

Learn How to Customize Outlook’s User Interface (attend my session at Tech-Ed)

 

Next week I am presenting a session at Tech-Ed that shows off a few cool techniques for customizing Outlook. I’ll presenting with one a fellow Cogent Company cohort, Damon Armstrong.

If you are interested in customizing Outlook and want to learn how to customize its UI then you don’t want to miss this session. We’ll cover the basics while implementing a business process that allows us to show more advanced techniques.

In fact, we’ll show you to do this:

Trust me you want to attend…especially because you learn just how simple a solution like this can be.

Below is the full session abstract copied from the official Tech-Ed 2009 site.

See you in LA!

OFC325 Building Custom Applications in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Ty Anderson, Damon Armstrong Tue 5/12 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Room 408A Tags: 300 – Advanced, Breakout Session, Developer, Developer Manager, Microsoft® Office Suites, Office and SharePoint, Solutions Architect, Yes, Yes This session covers strategies for customizing Outlook for your unique business requirements. The session covers how to build task panes (for Inspectors and Explorers), form regions, custom Ribbons, and more. A real-world business scenario is used to provide context as each demo builds upon itself to show how each UI component can work with each other. In addition, other features like data storage, views, and search are covered.

User Interface

Roll-your-own “traffic light” icon set

Posted by Chris Downs, writer, Access IW Content Team Here’s a great tip suggested by Clint Covington.

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Roll-your-own “traffic light” icon set

User Interface

.NET Basics for the Database Developer: Take the Plunge

This short introduction to .NET shows Access and SQL Server developers how to use a development tool to create connections to data and a user interface to manipulate that data.

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.NET Basics for the Database Developer: Take the Plunge

User Interface

Create Eye Catching Controls with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression 2 Tools

With the powerful combination of Microsoft Expression tools and Visual Studio 2008, developers are now free to push the limits of user interface design. Learn how developers can build rich interfaces themselves—and/or work closely with designers—to add functionality and business rules to solutions using the skills they already have with Visual Studio.

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Create Eye Catching Controls with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression 2 Tools

User Interface

Expect Office 2007's 'Ribbon' UI to permeate Windows 7, Microsoft says

The controversial 'Ribbon' user interface that Microsoft introduced in Office 2007 is being used for some of Windows 7's built-in applications, such as WordPad and Paint. Computerworld Software News – http://www.computerworld.com/

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Expect Office 2007's 'Ribbon' UI to permeate Windows 7, Microsoft says