Ty Anderson | March 29th, 2012
The Cloud is a disruptive “technology”. I know it is more than a single technology so I put it in quotes. The Cloud is an idea that involves several technologies. For service providers, the Cloud is really messing things up…it’s disrupting the status quo...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Eugene Astafiev | March 29th, 2012
Sometimes Outlook users need to send their e-mails to the same recipients. The Outlook Object Model provides the DistListItem class exactly for this task. The distribution list represents a group of contacts that are related in some way...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | March 28th, 2012
Will SharePoint 15 (2013) finally get an App Store? :: For the sake of all things good in the Universe, I sure hope so. If you develop apps for SharePoint 2010 (on-premise and/or online), I bet you do too. I mean, look at what Apple has done with their app store...
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Office, Office 2013, SharePoint |
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Alexander Solomenko | March 26th, 2012
I want to share a solution to the problem related to using drag-n-drop in my Outlook 2010 add-in. The task was as follows: we needed to implement a UserControl that would accept MailItem or Selection by using the dragging functions, or more precisely Drag-and-Drop.
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COM add-ins, Outlook, task panes |
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Ty Anderson | March 23rd, 2012
We have an extra section today. The topic is the recent Office 365 price reduction. I have to tip my cap to the great XL-Dennis. He got me thinking this way by leaving a thoughtful comment on last week's Office 365 Newswire...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | March 22nd, 2012
It seems that somebody leaked some Office 15 bits and a big big way...Paul Thurrot has made the most of his copy of Office 15 and we are the beneficiaries. Mr. Thurrot does a good job detailing each app. He goes the extra mile by reviewing Office 15 installed on Windows 8...
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Office, Office 2013 |
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Eugene Astafiev | March 21st, 2012
In my previous post we discussed how to add a new personal folders store to the Outlook profile. Now I would like to reveal the opposite action – how to remove a personal folders store...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Eugene Astafiev | March 19th, 2012
Sometimes developers need to add an additional store in Outlook for archiving e-mails, making backup copies of email conversations etc. The AddStore method of the Namespace class of the Outlook Object Model provides the required functionality...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | March 16th, 2012
I think we are in for some exciting changes with the upcoming "Wave 15" releases from Microsoft. The way we interact with software will look drastically different in just a few years. Heck, looking back 5 years ago, who was predicting what we are seeing now? ...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Eugene Astafiev | March 15th, 2012
Today I would like to show you how to filter task items using the Restrict method of the Items class which the Outlook Object Model provides for developers...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | March 14th, 2012
I'm leading off with an article that is not about Office but is about Windows and tablets. I believe this topic is important to Office so I include it here. It's also nice to see someone state their opinion that Microsoft's strategy is the right one...
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Office, SharePoint |
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This being the eighth and final instalment of the Add-in Express vs. VSTO series, I thought I'd wrap up with what could possibly be the most important feature of Add-in Express: Developer Happiness...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, Outlook, Visual Studio, VSTO, Word, XLL |
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Planning the deployment of any software product is something most of us leave right to the end of the project. It makes logical sense to do so, everything that needs to be built is built and we know what we need to deploy...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Deployment, Office, Visual Studio, VSTO |
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Ty Anderson | March 9th, 2012
Office 365 is still new enough that "introductory" and "first impressions"-type of articles are good things. This one is all about site templates. The author even offers some analysis of the page structure. I don't agree with their conclusion however...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | March 7th, 2012
I’m really beginning to dig the Metro UI. I have liked it from the start but I’m liking it more and more every day as it is adopted by more and more websites and software applications. I like white space and I hate clutter. I believe Metro feels as I do. Just keep it simple […]...
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Office, Office 2013 |
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A task pane is a dockable window which was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP. It provided a new and convenient way for users to gather information and access common features and commands. Chances are that if you’ve used any application in the Microsoft Office suite you would have used a task pane...
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.NET, COM add-ins, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, task panes, VSTO, Word |
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