Posts Tagged ‘Office’

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 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 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 →

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 →

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 →

How To: Create a new distribution list item in Outlook

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... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Will SharePoint 15 (2013) finally get an App Store? – 3.28.2012

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... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: All about Office 15: Outlook 15, Word 15, PowerPoint 15 – 3.22.2012

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... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Remove a Personal Folders file from the current Outlook profile

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... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new Outlook Personal Folders store and add it to the current profile

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... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook Task items

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... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: What CloudOn offers for Office on iPad – 3.14.2012

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... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express vs. VSTO – Microsoft Office developer happiness

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... Read the rest of this entry →

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