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Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Presence Controls

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:40:03 GMT

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Presence Controls are designed to provide presence information and real time collaboration options to Microsoft Windows Forms, Web Forms and GUI applications that are based on the Microsoft Win32 application programming interface. The controls provide developers of these applications with the ability to drag-and-drop the control from the toolbox in Visual Studio onto applications and provide access to the capabilities of Communicator in an easy to incorporate manner.

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file."...

Microsoft releases Office binary file formats (doc, xls, ppt)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

.doc, .xls and .ppt specifications are available. A few years too late for me, but good news none the less.

Excel 2007's Multiplication Bug: Food for thought

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:06:03 GMT

Excel 2007 has an interesting (though embarrassing) multiplication bug that ought to give developers quite some food for thought for some of the things that they take for granted ...

Data Connectivity Components:2007 Office System Driver

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:41:02 GMT

In case you need to read or write from/to MS Office System Files (e.g Access 2007 or Excel 2007) .This set of components from Microsoft can make your life easer .Connectivity to MS SharePoint Services and text files is also supported.

Visual Studio Vista extensions

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:33:32 GMT

A collection of tools is now available for Visual Studio 2005 to develop for the Windows Vista and Office 2007 systems.

Microsoft Office documents parsing Using Windows Indexing Service for

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:46:01 GMT

On Windows 2000+ you can use the IFilter interface to parse the most common file types. IFilter interface is a part of Microsoft Indexing Service. The IFilter interface is also used by Windows Desktop Search. More about it + example of C# file is on site

Office Development Bloggers OPML

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:46:01 GMT

Download this OPML for use in RSS feeds to get a list of over 60 Office-related blogs.

Open-source API for SpreadsheetML documents

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:47:44 GMT

Doug's found a great API for creating Excel 2007 files on the server WITHOUT needing Excel installed!

Using the Packaging API and Office Open XML to create Excel 2007 files

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:46:01 GMT

Cool overview of how to write Open XML files on the server. This makes it real easy to create Excel 2007 files WITHOUT Excel!

How to create Microsoft Excel 2007 files on the server

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:16:01 GMT

ExcelPackage provides server-side generation of Excel 2007 spreadsheets. It is a set of classes and wrappers around the .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API and the new Office Open XML file format. It extracts away the complexity of dealing with the individual XML components making it real easy to create sophisticated spreadsheets on the server.

Complementary copy of Office Professional 2007

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:31:01 GMT

Complementary copy of Office Professional 2007

Controlling Outlook 2007 with C# and Visual Studio Tools for Office

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:31:01 GMT

This post describes how to use C# and the Visual Studio Tools for Office to program Outlook 2007. The focus is on showing the preliminary steps necessary to programmatically run a set of Outlook rules.

Coding Horror: Office 2007 -- not so WIMPy

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:01:01 GMT

In my opinion, the new Office 2007 user interface is one of the most innovative things to come out of Redmond in years. It's nothing less than the death of the main menu as a keystone GUI metaphor. This is a big deal. Historically, where Office goes, everyone else follows. It's already starting to trickle down: IE7 does not show its main menu by default, and neither does Vista. You have to press Alt to expose the menu. The main menu has been demoted to a sort of configuration panel for advanced users; for everyone else, there's the Ribbon and toolbar buttons.

Server-Side Generation of Word 2007 Docs

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:01:01 GMT

In this month's MSDN magazine, November issue... learn how to read, write and generate Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents on the server without running Office using ASP.NET and Sharepoint

View revisions to a WordprocessingML document in a browser

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:47:07 GMT

This article explains the usage of ASP.NET application in converting a WordprocessingML document with simple textual content and comments into HTML using XSLT. If the document revision ("track changes") is set "on", then the tracked changes are also converted to HTML.