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Open XML SDK 2.0 RTM is live! Find Articles, Videos, Code Samples, and Resources on MSDN
Erika Ehrli
PI’ve been incredibly passionate about Open XML since it’s early beginnings. I remember back in the day I was very excited about the possibility of generating .NET server-side Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. I also had the opportunity to manage the Open XML Format SDK 1.0 documentation release, A href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/9/c/09cda3f2-6d3d-4082-aec5-9a62b7679ecf/2007OfficeDeveloperMap.pdf" target=_blank mce_href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/9/c/09cda3 [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 15th '10 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 Developer Videos and Slide Decks on MSDN
Erika Ehrli
PSome developers asked if we could publish some SPC videos and slide decks after the conference on MSDN. While we can’t publish all the conference content, we were able to cherry pick most popular sessions and publish a selection of most popular Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 develop SPC videos and slide decks./P
PHere’s our selection of most popular sessions:/P
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Posted: Wed, Mar 10th '10 |
MSDN Office and SharePoint Developer Centers are wearing a new skin!
Erika Ehrli
PSomeone recently asked me (in Twitter) if I was keeping some nice stories in draft and waiting for things to go live to push the “publish” button in my blog, Twitter, and Facebook. The answer is yes! I am keeping a lot in draft mode. This is why I keep saying that this are exciting times for Office and SharePoint developers./P
PThere’s few things for Microsoft people that bring more happiness than approaching RTM and start talking. As we get closer to that day, our team decided to start r [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
Getting Started with Office 2010 Development
Erika Ehrli
PIt’s been an exciting week with all the recent announcements at PDC. Today, at PDC A href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2010office/" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2010office/"we announced the availability of our public Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Betas/A. Lots of developers from the community who have been monitoring the new developer investments on Office 2010 can start creating solutions with the latest features. You can find links [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 28th '10 |
MSDN Office and SharePoint in Facebook and Twitter
Erika Ehrli
POur social medianbsp;community is growing and we want to provide better support and more features to our followers. We are moving from a Facebook Group to a Facebook Fan Page.BRBRThis will allow us to provide more frequent updates including news to developer content released weekly. BRBRPlease follow us and become a fan of A href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/MSDN-Office-and-SharePoint-Developer-Centers/321737938338" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/MSDN-Office-and-SharePoint-Developer- [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 24th '10 |
Office and SharePoint 2010 Developer: RSS Feeds
Erika Ehrli
PThe following RSS feeds are now live with headlines from July 1, 2009 to February 19, 2010. The feeds include headlines for all of the Office and SharePoint Getting Started content, as well as the Channel 9 learning courses for SharePoint and Office./P
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Posted: Wed, Feb 24th '10 |
Extending the Outlook Social Connector
Erika Ehrli
PI am one of those persons who has 25 apps running at the same time. I always have multiple instances of Explorer, VS, Office docs, and other apps running at all times. The one app I never close and I frequently visit is Outlook./P
POne of the neat new additions to Outlook 2010 is the the Outlook Social Connector (OSC). The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector is an add-in that surfaces social network data including friends, profiles, activities, and status information from social networks in Micr [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 18th '10 |
New: Office Developer Atlas
Erika Ehrli
PThe Office Product Marketing group has released a new Silverlight-based training set to introduce you to developer investments in 2010 including VBA, Fluent UI, and the Office Backstage./P
PThe app was released yesterday to MSDN and you can access it from this link:/P
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Posted: Tue, Feb 16th '10 |
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Blogs of Notice OPML/
Erika Ehrli
PBlogs are super fun! Many product teams for Office and SharePoint are blogging about new features added to the 2010 release. /P
PHere’s some blogs I recommend following:/P
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Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
What’s New for Developers in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?
Erika Ehrli
PThe upcoming release of Office and SharePoint offers a wealth of interesting new scenarios and solutions that can be built thanks to new features and improvements added to different Office and SharePoint products and technologies. There’s more possibilities to integrate Office and SharePoint to build rich client-server solutions using tools such as Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath 2010, and Access 2010./P
PSome of you already had an opportunity to play with the Betas and [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 for Developers + New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers
Erika Ehrli
It’s always hard to stay away from blogging when there’s so many new things to share and talk about. Today at the SharePoint Developer Conference Keynote, Jeff Teper talked about SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 features for developers and IT professionals. This is the time to start to blog more about the new release of Office and SharePoint and I am glad that we can all talk now!!!!
The SharePoint team blog has a good summary of key announcements made today at the conference, so in case you [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
MSDN Redesign: Office, SharePoint, and VSTO sites are live!
Erika Ehrli
I know it’s late at night, but I couldn’t resist. The MSDN Office, SharePoint, and VSTO Developer Center are blue now and match the super cool new MSDN branding and experience. Go take a look and enjoy:
Office Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx
SharePoint Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx
Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default.aspx
More sites here: http: [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 17th '09 |
Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 + MSDN Redesign + New MSDN Open XML Developer Portal
Erika Ehrli
It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to blog. When I am quiet it usually means I am up to something :).
Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010
This are exciting times for Office and SharePoint developers. While we have released some interesting news about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 already, there’s a lot more coming for the SharePoint Developer Conference and Beta 2.
We currently have more than 100 items in the publishing queue to be released between the SP Conference [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP, Videos, and 50+ Open XML Code Samples
Erika Ehrli
Zeyad Rajabi announced this week the availability of the new Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP. As mentioned by Zeyad, changes to this CTP include:
Add semantic level validation support
Add markup compatibility/extensibility support
General improvements based on your feedback
If you are into Open XML Development, you will also be interested in a few more videos and code samples.
Open XML SDK 2.0 Visual How-to Series
We have released some videos, walkthroughs, and code sample downloads in the last c [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09 |
Are you an Office Developer? Identify yourself as a member of the “Office Developer Guild”
Erika Ehrli
This will be interesting for all of you who are into Office development: As Office developers, we can start identifying ourselves as active members of the community by joining the “Office Developer Guild” spearheaded by John Durant.
The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in our community is pretty vast and deep. To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas we now have the [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
Get Started Resources for Fluent UI Extensibility + Download the New Office Developer Resources Ribbon Tab
Erika Ehrli
I remember all the buzz generated when we announced the new Fluent UI (Ribbon) for Office 2007 applications. The Microsoft Office Fluent UI replaced the previous system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes with a simpler system optimized for efficiency and discoverability. The new UI, including the Office Fluent Ribbon, provides improved context menus, enhanced screen tips, a Mini toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts that help to improve user efficiency and productivity.
In Office 2007, the Flu [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
What’s New in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Technical Preview post)
Erika Ehrli
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I was out of town and had to miss the excitement of blogging about the launch of the Office Technical Preview yesterday. Lucky me, today I have tons of links and trackbacks to other blog posts to share!
What’s New in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?
Yesterday, Stephen Elop announced the technical preview milestone for Microsoft Office 2010 at the WorldWide Partner Conference.
From the Press Pass:
Office 2010 and related products will deliver innovative capab [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 15th '09 |
How to Upload Files to SharePoint Server 2007 from ASP.NET Web Applications
Erika Ehrli
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Some time ago I blogged about How to: Uploading a File to a SharePoint Library Site from a Local Folder and How to: Magic with SharePoint 2003, uploading files using a Web service. Some people found these samples useful and some people asked if I could provide sample code that works with SharePoint Server 2007.
For some time I asked around and realized that there are multiple possible ways to accomplish this task in SharePoint 2007. Here are some popular approa [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
MSDN Office Developer Center – Pre Office/SharePoint 2010 Update
Erika Ehrli
MSDN Developer Centers pull together content and resources around specific products and technologies. They connect developers with code samples, community sites, technical articles and documentation, upcoming events, and much more. The MSDN Office Developer Center (ODC) provides a developer roadmap to understand and work with Office System programs, servers, services, tools and technologies.
As we prepare for our next product release (Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010), we worked on a set of site [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
Links and Toys of the Week (June 8, 2009)
Erika Ehrli
Here’s a few toys and great reads that have kept me entertained for the last couple weeks:
IIS SEO Toolkit Beta Now Available!
If you manage a personal or company Web site and haven’t heard about this yet, get ready to be amused. The IIS team released last week the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 8th '09 |
Office 2010 for Developers: Conference moving to SharePoint Conference 2009
Erika Ehrli
Last year I had the opportunity to attend the Office Developer Conference 2008 in San Jose, CA. I remember being there with Sanjay, Ken Getz, and Wouter at the Open XML booth where we had the opportunity to talk to some of you about the latest improvements to the Open XML Format SDK 1.0 and distribute Open XML posters. I was super happy to hear from Gray that we will have an Office Developer Conference moving to the SharePoint Developer Conference 2009. Office 2010 enables better integration be [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
Links of the Week (May 15, 2009) for SharePoint Developers
Erika Ehrli
The Windows SharePoint Services Developer Center has a new face and great community features and MVP highlights. This site has a new Bookstore and great Learn resources including videos and webcasts, virtual labs, and resource centers. Check it out at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint
The SharePoint Designer Developer Center has a new face as well. Check it out at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb421303.aspx. Also, if you have not heard the news yet, SharePoint Designer 2007 is n [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
Open XML Format SDK 2.0: Getting Started Best Practices
Erika Ehrli
The Open XML Format allows you to generate, manipulate, or pull data from Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 files. If you are working with Microsoft-based solutions, you can generate, manipulate, and pull data from documents using the following tools and technologies:
Notepad: Yes you can do it by hand! This is the classic “hello world” demo that you see in conferences and Level 100 Open XML sessions. Here’s a video and sample that shows how to do this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Download and Improvements for Developers
Erika Ehrli
The Office 2007 SP2 is available now for download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5&displaylang=en
Here are some improvements on SP2 that matter to developers:
Save as PDF and XPS: One of the coolest things you can do from Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is “Save As” PDF or XPS. You can also programmatically Save AS ODF or XPS using the OM. Here’s a cool video that shows how to do this:
Before SP2, you could down [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
Office Palooza: Join the contest to test & sharpen your VBA programming skills!
Erika Ehrli
MSDN® is sponsoring a coding contest for Office 2007, named OfficePalooza! This sweepstakes will run two weeks beginning April 20, 2009, and features ten fun Visual Basic of Applications™ (VBA) coding challenges in the form of puzzles and games. Each entrant will earn a chance to win one of hundreds of available prizes, determined by a random drawing at the end of the contest.
About OfficePalooza What’s this all about, and where did this crazy idea come from, anyway?
OfficePalooza Challe [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
Office “14” – Microsoft Office 2010 Products and Technologies: Names & Availability
Erika Ehrli
Today as part of the Exchange 14 annoucement we officially announced the name and availability of Office “14” products and technologies!
Exchange Server 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009. Microsoft Office 2010 and related products will enter technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and become available in the first half of 2010.
Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 are scheduled to enter technical p [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
Open XML SDK 2.0 April CTP Live & Silverlight DeepZoom Class Architecture Diagrams
Erika Ehrli
For all of those fans of Open XML and followers of updates done to the Open XML Format SDK 2.0, one more happy day has arrived. The Office Client Developer Content team and the Open XML SDK product team released the Open XML Format SDK 2.0 April CTP on MSDN! Zeyad has a great blog post where he explains in detail what’s new with the latest version of the SDK.
Brief Class Architecture Overview
The Open XML Format SDK 1.0 is a licensed version of the Open XML SDK that allows you to manipulate Op [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 9th '09 |
Announcing the MSDN Office Developer Bookstore
Erika Ehrli
We have some great news for Office and SharePoint developers. We launched this morning a new section on the MSDN Office Developer Center where you can find Office and SharePoint books that matter to developers. We also provide free book chapters!
MSDN Office Developer Bookstore
Here’s the set of links where you can find our bookstore pages:
Office Developer Bookstore
Book Excerpts for Office and SharePoint Developers
Books for 2007 Office System Developers
Books for Access Developers
Books fo [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 9th '09 |
MSDN Office Developer Center on Twitter: Office and SharePoint News for Developers
Erika Ehrli
I’ve been experimenting with Twitter for the last couple of months and I am quite addicted to it now. I love the fact that you can get real time news and chat with so many people from the community. SharePointDev, emilysc, ninar,and ricalo have been my Twitter mentors and got me deep into the addiction.
I’ve been twittering random news that matter to Office and SharePoint developers under my Twitter account, but wanted to create another feed where we specifically post:
Just published conten [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Office 2007 and SharePoint Technical Content in your own Language
Erika Ehrli
A long time ago I blogged about Office developer resources in your own language. Ever since, we have seen the need for “Office Technical Content” in multiple languages. For example, in countries like Russia or France, developers and IT professionals create great SharePoint solutions and deployments, but there is low English affinity on those markets. In some other cases you may understand well technical content in English, but you may have a preference to read it in your own language.
I [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 7th '09 |
Links for February 6th 2009: Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map, Join Us on Facebook, + Lots of New Articles and Downloads
Erika Ehrli
It's cold and raining here in Redmond. Perfect weather for writing a blog entry.
Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map
Andrew May is a content publishing manager for WSS developer content. He is very passionate about Workflow and this week he created a new workflow development resources interactive map using mind maps. Andrew created this interactive map as another way of presenting some of the information we currently have on the MSDN Workflow Resource Center. If you are currently cr [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 7th '09 |
How to Export Data to Excel from an ASP.NET Application + Avoid the File Format Differ Prompt
Erika Ehrli
This is a common task for ASP.NET developers. You have a Web application where you expose data from a database, Web service, or third-party API and you need an "Export to Excel" button. I have used different approaches to export to Excel from a Web application. Here's some options and guidance of when to use each one.
Generate a CSV file: If you open a CSV file in Excel, you can see a table with data. You can use this approach if you don't need control over formatting, styles, or workbook stru [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 31st '09 |
Links for January 23th 2009: Office 14 for the Web, Outlook MAPI, and more cool Office blogs
Erika Ehrli
I came across some interesting blog posts this week and here's a few links that I'd like to share with you.
Office 14 for the Web
Learning about Office 14 is one of the most exciting things I've been doing since I came back. I am dying to talk about so many of the great new features for developers in Office 14. Can't say much now (hopefully soon I will), but I came across a public announcement from PDC: Office 14 on the Web. In case you missed it (like me), Microsoft announced at PDC that the [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 23rd '09 |
Top Office 2007 & SharePoint Articles, Downloads, Visual How-tos, and Portal Pages
Erika Ehrli
I've spent the last few days pulling 2008 metrics for Office & SharePoint developer content. It's quite interesting to see what flavor of chocolates devs pick at the candy store.
The Office System is an umbrella of products and technologies. Popular picks from the Office dev community include SharePoint, Open XML, WSS, the Fluent UI, Excel, Access, and Word technical documentation.
Here's to the very best of Office & SharePoint developer content and kudos to all the authors w [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 20th '09 |
Great News for Open XML Developers: ECMA-376 Implementation Notes for Office 2007 SP2 are here!
Erika Ehrli
We've published today a new set of Open XML implementation notes. The ECMA-376 Implementation Notes helps developers to understand low-level details of the Open XML implementation. The notes also include information that will help ISO update the standard over time, and some other general information to cover some scenarios that are not covered in detail by the SPEC.
The notes are definitely a great resource for all us who work with the Open XML SDK 1.0 and 2.0 and are looking for detailed docum [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 17th '09 |
Links for January 9th 2008: LINQ for Office Developers, Office and Open XML Poster Downloads
Erika Ehrli
Here is a list on links that I want to share with you.
LINQ for Office Developers
Some Office solutions require that you work with XML. Open XML documents, SharePoint, and InfoPath are great samples. LINQ to XML is an in-memory XML programming interface that enables you to modify XML documents efficiently and easily. One of the great advantages of using LINQ to XML is that it greatly simplifies the task of processing XML documents. Making Office development even easier.
If you are new to LINQ [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 9th '09 |
Suggest a Topic/Code Sample for Future Office Visual How-tos
Erika Ehrli
While reviewing traffic to some of our MSDN content, I noticed that the Office Visual How-tos we've published on the MSDN Library are getting lots of page views!
Developers seem to like this content type since it provides a short article, code sample, and video. This content type provides quick demos that show you how to work with specific features provided by different Office products and technologies.
We've covered a broad set of topics, such as Open XML, SharePoint, WSS, Word, Outlook, Acce [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 9th '09 |
I’m back!
Erika Ehrli
Sofia came five months ago and I can honestly say that so far she has been the best part of my life.
Spend a few months with a kid and you'll get to know a new side of you that you never imagined you had. It's like starting to live all over again. Even the simplest smile or sound coming out of your little one can make you go wild. Anyway, as many other lucky working moms, I get to enjoy the beauty of motherhood and the fun of a happy job to get back to.
One of the things I missed the most was b [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 5th '09 |
Presents for Outlook Developers...
Erika Ehrli
New Reference Documentation
The big news is an offering for COM developers: the long-awaited Outlook 2007 Messaging API went live today. This is an update to the old Messaging API last published several years ago. Outlook 2007 Messaging API (MAPI) Reference describes how to create Outlook 2007 items by using MAPI that is based on the Component Object Model (COM) rather than the Outlook object model.
And hopefully you noticed this...
Install Updates for Outlook 2007 Help This download installs t [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 4th '08 |
What's New in Office for October?
Erika Ehrli
Time's been passing. Meanwhile, we have a slug (bucketful? melange) of interesting new content out there.
For Office client developers, we have a couple of important updates. One is to Andrew Whitechapel's popular article: Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard Version 2.3.1.0. By customer request, we also republished a popular article that was inadvertently dropped in some recent shenanigans: Improving Web Site Usability and Appeal. The latest OfficeTalk column, by gues [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 16th '08 |
Sophia has arrived!
Erika Ehrli
I guess that it should be no great surpise that my first blog post on Erika's behalf is to announce the birth of Sophia - certainly what will be her project with the most long-lasting influence.
It's with great pleasure that I get to announce that Erika's baby, Sophia was born on Friday at 2:53 PM. Mom and baby are doing great. Sophia weighs 8.1 pounds and measures 19 inches long.
I was flattered that Erika asked me to help out. I look forward to telling you more about the new content coming up [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 21st '08 |
My New and Most Beautiful Assignment
Erika Ehrli
Blogging has been one of the things that I've enjoyed the most in the last couple of years. I really like the fact that it allows me to share news related to Office development with the community. For the first time in a couple years I'll have to take a break from blogging.
I am going to have a baby girl anytime now, so I am taking some months out of the office to take care of my little one, Sofía. Here's a cute little picture I have from her last ultrasound.
While I am gone, I'll have a gues [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 12th '08 |
My First Book: Programming Microsoft® Office Business Applications
Erika Ehrli
I think it's quite interesting how knowledge is shared nowadays. With so many blogs, online articles, how do I videos, and e-mail newsletters out there, writing/reading books seems to be just poetic. I still believe good tech books are your best friends when you are trying to get more in depth knowledge about a new technology.
I would be lost today without my red C# bible: Professional C#
This book has been my best friend and has helped me through many battles. I got mine almost five years ago a [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 2nd '08 |
Announcing the Open XML Format SDK 1.0
Erika Ehrli
We have great news for all Open XML developers who have waited so patiently for the fully supported release of the Open XML Format SDK 1.0. Today we published the final bits and online documentation on MSDN. You can get the SDK from the following locations:
SDK download site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120908
MSDN SDK online documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx
XML in Office Developer Portal: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/xml
Open XML Formats Re [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 10th '08 |
Updated Office Developer Posters
Erika Ehrli
Some other great news. We updated a couple Office developer posters.
Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
This version includes new information related to:
PerformancePoint Server 2007
Visual Studio 2008 Application-Level Add-Ins and Document Level Customizations
Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Unified Communications products and technologies: Communicator 2007, Live Meeting, Exchange Server 2007, and Communications Server 2007
Interoperability
Vi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 5th '08 |
New: SharePoint Essentials for .NET Developers
Erika Ehrli
If you are a .NET developer curious about what is SharePoint and want to get started with SharePoint development, you should check out The SharePoint Developer Introduction for .NET Developers resource set announced today at Tech Ed. This is a new set of webcasts, virtual labs, screencasts, presentations, demos, white papers, hands on labs, and resources that show you how to build enterprise solutions using different SharePoint components such as:
Web Parts
Data Lists
Event Handlers
Workflow
Si [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 2nd '08 |
Office + Virtual Earth Maps
Erika Ehrli
Hi there!
Long time, no blogging. Shame. I've been hiding in my cave (office) for the last month or so getting ready all the content and great news we are about to release next week at Tech Ed Developers. This time I unfortunately can't make it to the conference, but my heart has been at Tech Ed for a while. I'll be blogging almost every day next week so I can (remotely) share some of the great news for Office and SharePoint developers.
In the meantime, I'll start by blogging about a recently re [read].
Posted: Thu, May 29th '08 |
Office Developer Community Submitted Content
Erika Ehrli
I believe that people who have an opportunity to work with the field own an incomparable wealth of knowledge. MVPs, partners, consultants, and developers learn through experience all the technical details needed to design, develop, and deploy line-of-business solutions. Some of this people are really passionate about sharing their knowledge with the community by becoming trainers or by writing blogs, technical articles, or recording demos.
Since we launched Office 2007, some well-known MVPs, M [read].
Posted: Thu, May 8th '08 |
OBA Sample Application Kits Release to Web!
Erika Ehrli
If you’re looking for guidance on how to integrate SAP and/or PeopleSoft into your Office applications, then the OBA Sample Application Kits are a great place to start. OBA, or Office Business Application, is a composite application that integrates line-of-business systems with the Office client (e.g. Excel or Outlook) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. These kits provide some great documentation and source code to help you get up and running quickly. The kits include:
1. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 28th '08 |
Open XML Format SDK - Class Diagram Explorer in Silverlight 2.0 Beta
Erika Ehrli
Last week I had the great opportunity to do my first experiments with Silverlight 2.0. I was truly fascinated to discover the power that this technology offers.
My favorite feature so far is the Deep Zoom functionality. Deep Zoom allows you to zoom in an out an image or collection of images using your browser. It follows the same navigation principle used by http://maps.live.com/, where you use your mouse to zoom in and out a map. Not sure if you have seen the very cool Hard Rock Memorabilia si [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 25th '08 |
Announcing the Open XML Format SDK April CTP
Erika Ehrli
We are glad to announce that the Open XML Format SDK April CTP is available!
You can download the new SDK from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&displaylang=en
You can also find and online version of the SDK on the MSDN Library:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx
Also, you can find permanent links to both the download and online version at the XML in Office Developer Portal and at the Office Open XML F [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 17th '08 |
Open XML Hypocrisy
Erika Ehrli
Like many of you, I have been reading many blog posts related to this week's announcement that Office Open XML was approved as an ISO standard. Today I came across an interesting blog post from Jan van den Beld, who was Secretary General of Ecma International in Geneva and is currently a consultant in IT Standardization issues, working for organizations such as ECMA International and more.
I do have a lot of respect for organizations such as ECMA International and I want to share with you a link [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 4th '08 |
Happy News for Open XML Developers
Erika Ehrli
Many of you may have already heard that Office Open XML was approved as an ISO standard! This is great news for all of us who have been developing solutions using Open XML. You can find all the details in Brian's blog. Also, Doug Mahugh provides great pointers to other bloggers that talk about this.
Getting Started with Open XML Development
For those of you who are interested in creating solutions using Open XML, you should know that we have plenty of articles, videos, and code samples available [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 2nd '08 |
Office 2007 + Silverlight
Erika Ehrli
Latest technologies offered to Web developers, such as ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, offer UI improvements and amazing interactive experiences for Web-based applications.
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web, visit microsoft.com/silverlight.
Fortunately, you can integrate Silverlight to different Office products and technologies.
Silverlight + SharePoint
Not su [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 28th '08 |
My First PodCast: SharePoint Community Interview
Erika Ehrli
Happy Friday!
I was humbled when Luis Du Solier (MOSS MVP) asked if I could do an interview for the SharePoint Community in Mexico. We did the interview over the phone and in Spanish. It really was a fun experience and I enjoyed talking a bit of what I do and sharing some pointers to great developer resources for Office, MOSS, and OBA.
In this interview I talk about:
MSDN Office Developer Center: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx
SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal: htt [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 14th '08 |
MSDN Office Developer Center - Home Page Update
Erika Ehrli
Hi there!
If you haven't noticed already, MSDN is changing the content and look-and-feel of MSDN Developer Centers. This new design pulls a lot of community elements such as OPMLs, RSS feeds for bloggers and content, featured MVPs, and latest submissions to the MSDN Code Gallery and CodePlex.
The Office Developer Documentation group updates the MSDN Office Developer Center home page every Monday morning and today we went live with the new home page content and look. Take a look!
http://msdn.micr [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 3rd '08 |
Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2!
Erika Ehrli
We are glad to announce the release of the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2!
The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down to each product and technology and learn about new features, objects, Web services, namespaces, and schemas required to extend Microsoft Office and b [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 22nd '08 |
Office Developer Conference 2008 Post-Conference Resources
Erika Ehrli
Thanks to everyone who attended the Office Developer Conference this year! It was great seeing so many familiar faces and enthusiastic Office developers gathered once again.
I have a couple links and resources that I want to share with everyone:
Resources
Bill Gate's Keynote Video
It was such an honor to be there and watch Bill Gates deliver a keynote about Office development. He said that he likes Office and developers. He was delighted to see Office + developers together :). Watch this video. [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 21st '08 |
Open XML at the Microsoft Office Developer Conference 2008
Erika Ehrli
Hi there!
I am very excited to be here in San Jose, CA attending the Office Developer Conference 2008. We had a keynote this morning with Bill Gates where he showed a video with his plans for retirement and where he talked about the value proposition of the 2007 Office system as a development platform. Bill talked about many of the different products and technologies that you can use to build Office Business Applications (OBAs), including the Open XML formats!
Open XML is an open standard for [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 11th '08 |
What's New for Developers in VSTO 3.0
Erika Ehrli
Visual Studio Tools for the Office system (3.0) is the key developer technology that enables you to create scalable, LOB solutions for Microsoft Office by using the Office development features included with Visual Studio 2008. Steve Fox and I thought it would be a great idea to write an article that talks about the evolution of Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office and Office Development, how it all relates to Office Business Applications, the different business productivity solutions you can [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 23rd '08 |
Office Business Applications: Pricing Exception Management Solution
Erika Ehrli
If you are looking for a real-world application that showcases how to expose data from SAP using the 2007 Microsoft Office system here's one:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977552.aspx
Long story short, the Microsoft IT department designed and implemented a Price Exception Management application using a custom Office Business Application solution. This solution exposes and synchronizes real-time data in SAP, and provides a workflow routing and approval component that helps provide a [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 8th '08 |
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