Office

Wednesday, the second day of Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference, was jam-packed with news about upcoming products, beta releases and more. If you didn’t tune into the live stream, here’s what you missed: Internet Explorer 9Arguably one of the bigger announcements from PDC, Steven…

In this video, Mick Alberts shows you how to embed type information into an application that uses Automation objects from Microsoft Office. Embedding type information enables you to run the same build of an application with different versions of Microsoft Office on different computers, without…

Host Kirk Evans talks with Tom Resing about using the Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007.  Tom has been doing some very interesting work with the BDC, including surfacing geocoded data through BDC.  Tom is also organizing the SharePoint Saturday San Antonio event to be…

Host Kirk Evans talks with the SharePoint Cowboy, SharePoint MVP Eric Shupps.  In this interview, Eric discusses the use of SharePoint as an application platform and we discuss the use of TDD within application frameworks.  We also discuss how Visual Studio 2010 and its…

One thing that I disliked about buying a new PC was Microsoft Works. While I suppose it’s a decent enough software program for the average home user, my personal preference was always Microsoft Office. Over the years, I’ve had to uninstall Works over and over again in order to replace it with its…

Earlier this week the Office team released a video that showed some of the new features of PowerPoint 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite. The latest version is hardware-accelerated with new transitions and animations. All of this means that you can better use PowerPoint to not just present bullet…

Earlier this week the Office team released a video that showed some of the new features of PowerPoint 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite. The latest version is hardware-accelerated with new transitions and animations. All of this means that you can better use PowerPoint to not just…

This video demonstrates some of the tasks described in How to: Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office Programming. Using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and C#, I show you how to add text to a Word document and then convert the text to a table, without using all sixteen parameters…

Join us at The Water Cooler as host Kirk Evans interviews SharePoint MVP Shane Young.  In this episode, we learn about the choices admins make when installing SharePoint, we hear several tips on how to increase performance, and we subject you to a really bad cow joke.

Xobni is an Outlook plug-in that lets users easily connect to their contacts through the various social networks. The program comes in two versions, one free and now a new pay version that ads enhanced features. I recently talked to Matt Brezina, one of the Xobni founders, about the…