Office 365 Newswire: score points for Google Docs & Office 365 cloud productivity suites – 5.4.2012

Week-to-week, there are several news items attempt to score points for Google Docs, Office 365, LibreOffice, and other cloud productivity suites. I’ve tried keeping it with them... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Will Office 2013 be more attractive to companies than individuals? – 5.2.2012

Microsoft Office is strong in the business sector and the great majority of consumers. But what will consumers think of Office 15? This item raises a few questions but offers no answers. This should be expected as little to nothing is known about Office 2013 at this point... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: Windows Live SkyDrive and Office 365 – 4.27.2012

Today’s Office 365 Newswire is okay. The news this week is dominated by Google Drive and Skydrive. Office 365 was a bit quiet but there are still good items to report... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Why Windows 8 tablets will succeed – 4.25.2012

It's been a while since I pulled out my Tablet PC and did some doodling. So I decided to stop this negative momentum. This time, however, the Tablet PC is not the old clunker. No sir/ma'am! This time, I'm doodlin' with my slate pc... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: What’s new in Microsoft’s Office 365? – 4.20.2012

This week is a bit of a slow news week here at the Office 365 news desk and the Office 365 Newswire reflects this situation. I think when you see the first news item you will see just exactly what I mean... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: What’s new in Office 15 – 4.18.2012

It occurred to me rather quickly today that today's Newswire would require an extra section. There is lot of speculation and news regarding Office 15. I interpret this situation as proof that we are ready for the next version of Office. As always, I've culled through more news than I care to discuss... Read the rest of this entry →

How to share Outlook Views and changes between folders

Every now and again, Eugene comes up with a certain challenge and asks me whether I would like to give it a go. In most of these cases it does involve a lot of trial and error and even more head scratching : ) The one challenge I'll describe in todays' article involves creating an Outlook folder view and applying it to two or more folders... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: Office 365 for the large enterprise – 4.13.2012

Office 365 doesn't necessarily save large companies money. The funny thing about purchasing decisions is that price isn't everything. To some, price is everything. To others, features and service are most important... Read the rest of this entry →

How to create an Internet Explorer Bar for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

In today's post I'll show you how to write another integration to Dynamics CRM, only this time it is using Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net. We will write an add-on for Internet Explorer which will show the selected contact in Dynamics CRM's orders on an IE bar... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: “Official” Microsoft Office Product roadmap 2011-2014 – 4.11.2012

I'm taking the plunge. I'm going completely v.Next here. I am writing today's Newswire using a slate that is running Windows 8, Office 2010, & Visual Studio 11. The experience is definitely quite different to anything I've been doing since 1995 ... Read the rest of this entry →

Create a custom Outlook view programmatically: C# sample

When creating Outlook add-ins I used to always use the Add-in Express Web view when I wanted to display my own data in the folder view. Until recently, when I realized that Outlook does expose a lot of properties that make it easy to display your custom data using the built-in Outlook types as well as Outlook views... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 Newswire: What is the secret ingredient of Office 365? – 4.6.2012

Last week I covered some articles that discuss how Office 365 is not so great for the Microsoft Partner community just yet. Well, I think MSFT is very aware of this situation and is doing what they can to help show partners how they can make some money selling Office 365... Read the rest of this entry →

WPF Controls for Office development smackdown

We saw some interesting results with 3rd party UI control vendor products and Microsoft Office in my last article. In today's article we'll see how the same vendors' Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls suites look like in Microsoft Office ... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express will sim-ship with Visual Studio 11

I am pleased to announce that we have published Beta 1 of the new major version 7.0 of Add-in Express for Office and .net to simultaneously ship our cornerstone product with coming Visual Studio 11 betas and releases... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: New Microsoft Outlook features – Peek, People and Profiles – 4.4.2012

I've included lots of Office 15 content over the last few weeks. I didn't really place any standards on the content. It just needed to be new and from a reputable source... oh... it also had to be formatted well and easy to read... Read the rest of this entry →

Windows Forms controls smackdown (for MS Office)

Add-in Express provides us with some awesome tools for adding our own Office Task Panes and advance Outlook form and view regions, but making the UI elements on those panes and regions look good, is up to us... Read the rest of this entry →

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