Ty Anderson | June 13th, 2012
A good number of my news sources seem to think Microsoft will provide us with betas of Office and SharePoint as early as this month. Many thought the beta release would coincide with Tech Ed. So far, that is not the case but the week is not over...
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Office, SharePoint |
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Add-in Express for Office and .net makes building Microsoft Excel extensions easy. We provide you with a collection of tools and components to get that world-class Excel add-in out of the door and into the world in record time.
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Excel, RTD servers, XLL |
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Ty Anderson | June 8th, 2012
If I understand what I read, Exchange 15 features are running in Office 365, "if it makes sense". Sounds like an interesting concept... Office 365 as a testing / proving ground for the on-premise release. I think this strategy makes anyone using Office 365 a guinea pig...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | June 6th, 2012
In our software development world, we have our own "Big 3": Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Microsoft and Apple are grandpas (in tech years). Google is an single adult without kids. These three dominate our industry and are quite accustomed to winning...
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Office 2013 |
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Ty Anderson | June 4th, 2012
Excel is a popular target application for Office COM Add-ins and Add-in Express has the tools to empower you, the Excel add-in developer. In this relatively short video, we show you how our tools provide components and visual designers to help you quickly...
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COM add-ins, Excel |
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Ty Anderson | June 1st, 2012
The final pre-release of Windows 8 is here! I believe certain established tech journalists received an advanced copy. How else do you explain this super-informative guide written by Paul Thurrot?...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Eugene Astafiev | May 31st, 2012
Today I will tell you a story about searching items in Outlook. The most powerful and reliable search is using the AdvancedSearch method of the Application class...
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C#, COM add-ins, Outlook |
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Ty Anderson | May 30th, 2012
I keep hearing how the Facebook IPO was a failure. Depending on your viewpoint that might be true. For example if you purchased a significant number of shares at $38… I wager you are feeling a bit “zucked”. I love it when new expressions are coined like this. “Zucked” is brilliant. Despite all the hub […]...
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Office, Office 2013, SharePoint |
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In today's article we'll concentrate on the components and tools Add-in Express for Office and .net gives us when developing COM add-ins for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010...
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C#, COM add-ins, Excel, Ribbon |
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Ty Anderson | May 25th, 2012
This time out, the topic is how well the cloud suites convert Office documents. This alone should give MSFT a point on the score board. No one is writing an article about how well Word converts a Google Doc document...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | May 23rd, 2012
In the future there will be robots... but for now, let us ponder and discuss the future role of developers. The author of this article states that developers need to find an area of expertise but leave room for working knowledge of a broad set of adjacent technologies, languages and frameworks...
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Office, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | May 18th, 2012
Facebook goes public today. My instincts say Facebook stock is worth considering. My instincts thought the same regarding MSFT 10 years. I acted on that one bought some stock. Ten years later, I am just now seeing the stock price is above my purchase price...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | May 16th, 2012
The fact is, this week there just isn’t much news regarding Microsoft Office. I blame Facebook and their impending IPO. I also blame the ex-CEO of Yahoo. I also blame Josh Hamilton is his insane hitting during last week!...
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Office, Office 2013 |
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It is also about time I write a few posts about writing Excel COM add-ins, so in today's article we'll take a look at how to create a superb world-class Excel add-in using Add-in Express for Office and .net...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Delphi, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | May 11th, 2012
Comparing features in SharePoint Online across Office 365 Service Plans :: I went searching for a decent comparison this past week and found a pretty good one. This grid lays it all out... by plan, by feature, what's included, what's not...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | May 8th, 2012
I can't help but think about what's next for Office, SharePoint, and Microsoft. I am hoping for some big things. I can't wait to learn what Microsoft will offer developers in this next version...
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Office, Office 2013, SharePoint |
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