Office Newswire: Can Microsoft Office 2013 become a cash cow for developers?

I think the news coverage surrounding Office 2013 is setting a record. I don’t remember this much news for previous releases. No, it has nothing to do with my age thank you very much. I think it has something to do with the overall level of expectation and enthusiasm regarding the upcoming release... Read the rest of this entry →

Support for Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 coming soon

For the last few days we have received quite a lot of questions with one prevailing theme - When are you going to add support for Office 2013? The first one arrived a few hours after Microsoft had published Office 2013 CP and put a smile on our faces: Office 2013 has been out for a few hours and there is no update yet?... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 2013 User’s Guide: questions and answers

The Office 2013 Consumer Preview is upon us and with it. The fact is, there's just too much to cover. So, we'll take it a bit at a time and cover some major areas like users, developers, & IT pros for Office and SharePoint alike. As for today, we'll do something new and different… Here is Add-in Express's Questions and Answers Guide for Office 2013 User... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 2013 Starter Kit: for developers and users

Today’s Newswire is the Special Edition kind…I’m treating it like a "Starter Kit" for anyone that wants to learn the details quickly without having to scour the Interweb. I’ve done the best I could with the time I had ... Read the rest of this entry →

How to create an Outlook task, appointment or note from an email

In the first installment of this series, Customizing Outlook Ribbon and command bars in a single add-in, we took the first step in building the Ty Actions Outlook Add-in. If you followed along, you have a beautiful custom Outlook ribbon and a custom a command bar that will impress your users... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: New features of Office 15 to be unveiled – 7.13.2013

Microsoft expected to unveil update to Office suite. Because Office 365 includes Office desktop apps in many of its plans, this is indeed an Office 365 Newswire-worthy item. Also, this unveiling is expected to occur on Monday and I don’t want until Wednesday to tell you about after-the-fact. Over 1,000,000,000 users await the news ... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference news – 7.11.2012

It's Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC) Week. Next to Tech Ed, this is probably Microsoft's largest conference of the year. WWPC is for the marketing & sales peeps. I've never attended it and I don't really ever want to. I prefer Tech Ed and PDC... Read the rest of this entry →

Creating add-ons for IE 10 in VS 2012 using C#, VB.NET

Internet Explorer (IE) 10 is the next version of Internet Explorer from Microsoft. On Windows 8 you will have two different flavours of user interfaces; one is the traditional desktop browser application and the other a new Metro app... Read the rest of this entry →

Creating add-ins for Outlook: custom ribbon & command bar in one project (C#, VB.NET)

Despite what some promulgate as software development best practices, I like to start my projects by sketching what I envision. I don't conduct interviews. I don't write requirements. I thumb my nose at all type-A project manager types and don't make a plan... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: Google vs. Amazon – confusing cloud offerings – 7.4.2012

SharePoint 2013 name confirmed and SharePoint store details :: We've heard this news before from the same source. But the great inspector Furuknap is back again with more news. He has new information regarding the SharePoint app store as well... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Will Yammer become part of Office 365 SharePoint Online? – 6.27.2012

Microsoft swallows Yammer for $1.2 billion. Better business social networking is on its way. Eventually, it will "surface" in Office 365’s SharePoint Online. Yammer has over 200,000 corporate accounts (with 5 million users) ... Read the rest of this entry →

Programming for Office 2010 on Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012

If you've been following any IT related news lately you would've noticed that Microsoft has a number of new products and ideas up their sleeves. Last week we've seen their tablet offering, Microsoft Surface, announced. Windows 8 is close to release as well as Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 will be released in 2013... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: Office 365 and Microsoft Surface Tablets – 6.22.2012

Can Office 365 and Surface Tablets become Microsoft's Killer Combo? Yep, I think so. As I stated on Wednesday. All of a sudden Windows 8 makes sense to me. I think Office 365 will be a big player too. The Surface tablet doesn't exactly have a large hard drive. The Office web apps all-of-a-sudden are more compelling.... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Microsoft Surface – reviews, observations and predictions – 6.20.2012

After reading almost everything there is to read on the subject of Microsoft Surface, I have a few observations and predictions. If Microsoft delivers, Surface changes the tablet game. Windows 8 suddenly makes sense to me ... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: Google’s QuickOffice could pressure Office 365 – 6.15.2012

The Wall Street Journal explains how Google Docs lacks enterprise-grade support. Sounds like a good time for Google to beef-up their partner model. The analysis of Google’s purchase continues to trickle in. When will MSFT reveal their plans for mobile?... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Set a custom icon for an Outlook folder in the Navigation Pane

Today I want to show you one of the new features Outlook 2010 brought to programmers. Now Outlook allows setting custom icons the Navigation pane folders. The Outlook Object Model provides a special method for this task – SetCustomIcon. So, let's start our journey into the Outlook programming world ... Read the rest of this entry →

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