Ty Anderson | January 20th, 2012
So here I was, coffee in-hand, going through the Office 365 news from the past 7 days when it hit me… there is a theme to be found here. I love it when the content comes together!
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If you're following Ty's Office 365 Newswires and read this article about Microsoft already having sold five million Office 365 seats in roughly two and a half months, I'm sure you would agree with me that Office 365 is set to change, if not revolutionize the way people use and interact with Microsoft Office.
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Office 365, Outlook, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | January 18th, 2012
I'm just thinking out loud here as I write today's Office Newswire. There are lots of rules I create to help me focus as I write. But one rule that is sacrosanct is that the Newswire is written in a steam-of-conscience manner. A surprising good week for Office news and opinions. I have, of course, offered my thoughts and opinions about the items below
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Office, Outlook, Ribbon, SharePoint |
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At first glance Microsoft Lync can, to most people, look like just another instant messaging application. However, upon closer inspection it can mean so much more for organizations especially if they start to integrate it into their current day-to-day business systems...
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Andrei Smolin | January 16th, 2012
There are 4 instances of the command bar button "Save" (Id=3) in Excel. Two of them are best known: a button on the Standard commandbar and an item in the File menu. The other two instances are buried in the command bar system...
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Ty Anderson | January 13th, 2012
I didn't realize until just now that today is Friday the 13th. If this day and date alignment scares you... you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia. Please don't ask me how to pronounce it. You're on your own there. Including today, 2012 will have 3 occurrences of Friday the 13th...
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2012 is upon us and here's wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year! Last year we've taken a quick look at What Exchange Online extensibility is and what you can use it for, and in today's post we'll take a bit more of a hands-on approach and look at some examples of performing various tasks in Exchange Online using the Exchange Web Services API...
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Ty Anderson | January 11th, 2012
It seems all the news regarding Office is the result of other companies creating apps that work with Office files and run on the iPad. Mind you, these are not Office for the iPad as many of the article authors below state.
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Ty Anderson | January 6th, 2012
We've been publishing the newswire now for close to two months. I don't know about you but I'm enjoying myself. You have probably deduced by now that the newswire allows me to work out some of my thoughts and issues that bounce around in my head. I have followed the Office universe for almost 25 years. I love the platform and what provides in possibilities to businesses of all sizes...
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Ty Anderson | January 5th, 2012
We write a lot about the solutions you can develop with Office and SharePoint using code. We do this honestly because we are, in our heart of hearts, developers. We write code, we read about code, we create tools that help you write code, etc...
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Ty Anderson | January 4th, 2012
I spent the better part of my week do just that as well as thinking through 2012. I don't do the “New Year's Resolution” thing but I do set my sights on some items I want to achieve. It sounds like resolutions doesn't it? The difference is resolutions tend to be specific… narrow. My objectives are broad and set the tone for the entire year. They act as an umbrella that sets the scope of my activities...
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Ty Anderson | December 28th, 2011
I can tell that a new year dawns because the majority of the news discusses one of two topics: the best / worst N things that happened in 2011 and what 2012 will mean to / for...
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Ty Anderson | December 22nd, 2011
As I write this newswire, I literally have my daughter in my office wrapping the gifts I bought for my wife. I admit to you that I do not know how to properly wrap a gift and I now resort to bribing (or rewarding) my daughter for taking care of this task for me...
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Ty Anderson | December 21st, 2011
Office 365 includes SharePoint Online, Office Professional Plus, and Lync Online. Oh… and… it also comes with Exchange Online. Now, as an Office developer, I tend to overlook Exchange due to my love affair with building apps that target the Office client apps and SharePoint...
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Our blog is buzzing with news and updates about Office 365 and I hope you're following us on Twitter to get up to the minute updates. One of the biggest components of Office 365 is SharePoint Online and from a developer's point of view it is also one of the most customizable...
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Andrei Smolin | December 20th, 2011
Developers accessing Application.Selection and Application.ActiveSheet in Excel or Explorer.Selection.Item(i), Folder.Items(j), Inspector.CurrentItem in Outlook do know the notorious "System.__ComObject" string. It indicates that the actual type of the COM object is unknown...
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.NET, C#, Object model, Office, VB.NET |
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