Entries tagged with office - Channel 9

Embedding Type Information from Microsoft Office Assemblies

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT

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 needing to deploy a primary interop assembly (PIA) for each version of Office. For more information, see the Help topic:

Walkthrough: Embedding Type Information from Microsoft Office Assemblies (C# and Visual Basic)

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

Water Cooler Interview with Tom Resing on the BDC

Kirk Evans — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:56:00 GMT

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 held Saturday, November 14th 2009 in San Antonio, Texas. This is a free event, you should check it out (especially since I will be presenting there on the new Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010!)

Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps

Kirk Evans — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:12:00 GMT

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 SharePoint integration will significantly lower the bar for developers starting out with SharePoint.

I found this interview particularly relevant as I will be presenting on SharePoint Development Best Practices at the SharePoint Conference 2009, covering many of these same topics.

Get a Look at PowerPoint 2010

Larry Larsen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:33:00 GMT

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 points or graphs, but to really tell your story.

Here is that video, all of which was done with PowerPoint 2010.

How to Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office Programming (C#)

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:57:00 GMT

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 that are possible with the ConvertToTable method.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young

Kirk Evans — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:00 GMT

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.

Interview: BizSpark Startup Xobni

Brian Johnson — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:49:00 GMT

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 product, about social networking, and about how being a BizSpark startup has helped Xobni build their product and their company.

Links:
Xobni
BizSpark
Microsoft Startup Zone

Water Cooler Interview with Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz

Kirk Evans — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:55:00 GMT

In our first episode of The Water Cooler show, host Kirk Evans interviews Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz. We discuss the question, "Does every SharePoint installation require a developer?"

Watch for more episodes on The Water Cooler show!

Coworking for Startups

Brian Johnson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:42:00 GMT

One of the issues that new startups often face is the where to work question. Do we build in the garage/basement, or do we go after some office space? One new alternative that's catching momentum nationwide is coworking. Coworking allows community members to share the costs of an office space that offers meeting rooms, connectivity, printers, and other amenities.

I talked to Chris Shultz, the founder of Launch Pad in New Orleans, about the coworking movement, Microsoft BizSpark, and about their new space in The Big Easy.

Links:

Launch Pad - New Orleans
Coworking on Wikipedia
BizSpark Program
Microsoft Startup Zone

Water Cooler Demo - SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Our first episode of The Water Cooler Demo show, the show focused on all things Office related. In this episode, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a SharePoint state machine workflow using Visual Studio 2008 that accomodates escalations and timeouts.

Got any suggestions for future episodes? Tell us in the comments below!

SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Afternoon

Kirk Evans — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:58:00 GMT

Come take a peek as we wrap up the day at SharePoint Saturday Dallas, and check out the activity on Twitter at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spsdallas.

Ping 21: Gates & Ballmer talk Chrome, MS Office edits Google Docs, MS Retail, Natal is hiring

Laura Foy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:36:00 GMT

The bees aren't the only things buzzing this summer- Microsoft is making headlines left and right! Here are some of the big stories this week:

Apple wants Laptop Hunter ads pulled
Gates talks about Chrome
...and Ballmer talks about Chrome!
MS Office to edit Google Docs
Let's shop Microsoft!
Project Natal is hiring

...plus a farewell to Max. (for now)

Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 2

Kirk Evans — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:52:00 GMT

In this episode, host Kirk Evans talks with Dr. Michael Ludwich, VP of Consulting at Decentrix, where Dr. Ludwich provides a demonstration of the BIAnalytix solution. This quite an interesting demonstration, helping to show the value of BI in a media organization.

In Part 1 of this interview, we talked with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company. Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US. We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering.
In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix.

Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 1

Kirk Evans — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:18:00 GMT

In this episode, Kirk Evans talks with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company. Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US. We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering. I learned a lot during this interview about the importance of BI in M&E, and Wayne is a very interesting guy to listen to.

In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix.

A Look At Office 2010 with Chris Capossela

Larry Larsen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:36:00 GMT

Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Office 2010 will be opening up the tech preview to tens of thousands of people. This iteration of Office brings great collaboration tools and a web client that you'll be able to use simply by keeping your docs up on Skydrive. That means almost half a billion people will have access to free online Office apps at launch.

Senior Vice President of the Office products, Chris Capossela, stopped by the Channel 9 studios to tell us about Office 2010, what his favorite features are, and how we'll all get a chance to try it out. Chris Bryant follows with a walk-through of Office 2010 and a look at just some of the new features. For more information, go to www.microsoft.com/Office2010/.

SharePoint and Enterprise Social Computing - NewsGator Social Sites

Kirk Evans — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with Brian Kellner, VP of Products for NewsGator Technologies, about the capabilities of Social Sites. Social Sites is an enterprise social computing platform built upon SharePoint 2007. These capabilities are then demonstrated by Laura Farrelly, VP of Marketing for NewsGator. This is a fantastic product with a lot of exciting capabilities, this interview is definitely worth a look!

Publishing an Office add-in to a SharePoint Site for Distribution

John Wiese — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:10:00 GMT

I've been asked many times, "How do I publish my VSTO/Office Add-in installation files to a SharePoint site?". It's relatively straight-forward to publish to a basic web site, or to a UNC file share, but SharePoint is a slightly different beast.

So, how do you publish your add-in to a SharePoint site? Well, if you watch this short five and half minute video you will get the skinny on how to do just that. There are a few basic steps that need to be done in order to accompllish this that I will walk you through in the video, enjoy!

.NET 4, VS 2010 and Office: New Features in VS 2010 for Developers

John Wiese — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Now that .NET 4 and VS 2010 are out, at least in Beta, I thought it would be a good time to show off some of the new features that are applicable to Office development. In this second (see the first one here) screencast I will cover a new feature of Visual Studio 2010 for Office PIA (Primary Interop Assembly) references. You can now Embed the needed references directly into your executable so there is no longer a need for the PIAs to be on the client machine!

.NET 4, VS 2010 and Office: New Features in .NET 4 for Office Developers

John Wiese — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:18:00 GMT

Now that .NET 4 and VS 2010 are out, at least in Beta, I thought it would be a good time to show off some of the new features that are applicable to Office development. In this first screencast I will cover something new to C# specifically, optional paramters, as well as Lambda expressions.

Look for my next screencast tomorrow on removing the PIA dependency from your distribution!

SharePoint for Developers Part 6 - Custom web services

Kirk Evans — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:04:00 GMT

Kirk Evans shows how to create a custom ASMX web service hosted in SharePoint that enables query, insert, and delete of specific lists in a SharePoint site. You will also see how to use the WCFTestClient utility to call the web services. For more information, visit the accompanying blog post on Kirk's MSDN blog.

SharePoint for Developers Part 5 - Custom content types, fields, and lists

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:58:00 GMT

Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a list instance, custom field type, custom content type, and lists based off those assets. We will prepopulate lists with data, and use a feature receiver to delete lists programmatically. This screencast walks through many of the capabilities of Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services version 1.3. Visit Kirk's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans.

SharePoint for Developers Part 4 - Calling SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:46:00 GMT

In this session, Kirk Evans will demonstrate how to call SharePoint's web services from a Silverlight client. We will use SharePoint's Lists web service, and will show how to use databinding in Silverlight to display results from a SharePoint list. We will also see how to get around cross domain issues using SharePoint Designer 2007. The accompanying post with code listings is available on Kirk’s MSDN blog.

SharePoint for Developers Part 3 - Expression Blend and Silverlight

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:42:00 GMT

SharePoint developers will likely use a variety of tools to build solutions. In this screencast, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 2 to create a Silverlight application from scratch, and how to extend its functionality using Visual Studio 2008. We won't be looking specifically at SharePoint in this screencast, but we will use this application in future screencasts to integrate with SharePoint.

Wonderware: Synchronizing Production, Industrial Operations and Business Objectives

Charles — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:53:00 GMT

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys plc, is the market leader in real-time operations management software. Wonderware solutions enable companies to synchronize their production and industrial operations with business objectives, obtaining the speed and flexibility to attain sustained profitability. Wonderware has 540,000 license installations at 125,000 plants in 181 countries. Wonderware has development centers in the US, India, EMEA and Asia.

Wonderware, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner has developed a Unified Communications solution to address the communication challenges of the enterprise, such as collaboration barriers, information delay, unwanted communications, inefficient coordination and customer inquiries. Technologies utilized were Microsoft Office Communicator, MS OCS, MS VS 2008, supporting 64 bit hardware, WIN 2008 and Vista. The benefits derived from the solution include knowledge transfer, escalation of emergency situations, diagnostics and troubleshooting, remote information query and control and integration of the work force anytime, anywhere. The video exemplifies the application of the solution at a power utility company.

Visit the Microsoft ISV site for more information about software companies working with Microsoft.

Ping: Episode 7

Laura Foy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:48:00 GMT

These Microsofties just won't stop talking- and it's about really great stuff this week. Here's a glimpse of some of the stories we captured:

April Fools @ Microsoft
....lots and lots of it
Silverlight & MySpace...BFF's
Don't hate on the Microsoft name
iOffice?

Oh, and yes I know it's "TV production 101" to not wear busy shirts (like with white stripes) on camera so I apologize in advance for my shirt that looks like you might be hallucinating. Sorry.