In many companies, business logic resides in Excel. This business logic is sometimes created by business analysts and sometimes by business users who want to automate parts of their everyday job using Excel. This Excel-based business logic is often copied into an application (i.e. a website) and is ...

Office 2007 Ribbon panel control

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

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 creat...

I've been following the Office 2007 UI for quite some time, ever since I got my hands on early dog food alphas from the Office team. While some might not call it innovation, it just makes sense to me and I think it's a well designed and thought out piece of work. Yes, there are those that are not go...

Microsoft just launched several Webcasts that provide details on Windows Vista and Office 2007. Watch 3 and get a free copy of Vista Business and/or Office 2007 Professional. Sounds like a good deal for getting some free training on the new products.

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 t...