Ty Anderson | December 19th, 2011
This is a demo that shows how to use the Ribbon Designer to create your first custom SharePoint ribbon. This is an end-to-end demo… which means it doesn't stop until the solution is deployed and working in SharePoint. This video is just under 20 minutes and is a great way to spend the 2nd-half your lunch break...
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Office 365, Ribbon, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | December 19th, 2011
Microsoft is in the business of building software. In fact, Microsoft wants everyone to use at least a couple dozen Microsoft products each and every day. To make this happen, Microsoft has endeavored to win the hearts and minds of developers. Microsoft figures that if they have developers that love the Microsoft platform, then they will write apps for it...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | December 16th, 2011
I have an old tablet PC. I downloaded Windows 8 Developer Preview and installed it on the tablet. I like it but it is quirky. I'm looking forward to the next iteration of Windows 8 (and the next iteration of Office!). In the meantime, I'm wondering just how far behind Microsoft will be in the tablet wars when they release Windows 8 and the next generation of Office...
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Office, SharePoint |
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I'm pretty excited about the product I'm about to show you. It is not every day that you are able to work with a utility or tool that literally makes an activity a thousand times easier. In my previous post Customizing the SharePoint Ribbon, you most probably noticed the amount of work as well as trial and error that went into customizing the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon UI...
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C#, Office 365, Ribbon, SharePoint, Visual Studio |
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Ty Anderson | December 15th, 2011
One of the key goals here at Add-in Express is to build tools that simplify the task of developing Office solutions. Traditionally, the target has been the Office desktop applications. But with the new Ribbon Designer for SharePoint and Office 365, we now make life easier when you want to create a custom SharePoint ribbon in your SharePoint projects...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Andrei Smolin | December 14th, 2011
Let's consider the case then the user replies to an Outlook e-mail from the context menu. First off, you can reply to one item only; that item is selected or right-clicked in an explorer window or is opened in an inspector window....
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, CommandBars, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET |
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Ty Anderson | December 14th, 2011
A couple weeks ago (actually last week), I made a passing reference to MOJO. I was speaking then of Microsoft Office 365 numbers and that it points to maybe Microsoft is starting to recapture their MOJO. But what is MOJO? I suppose it depends. I’m about to pontificate so if you want to skip to the news you can but I’ll be offended if you do...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Andrei Smolin | December 13th, 2011
In my previous article I explained the Reply event and parameters it provides. Also, I described a class handling this event in a version-neutral way. Now what I want is to show how you intercept Outlook's Inspector.Activate event....
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Office, Outlook, VB.NET |
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What is Lync Online and why should developers care? Essentially think of Microsoft Lync as a combination of Microsoft Live Messenger, Microsoft Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communicator. It is a next generation cloud communication service that is a hosted version of Microsoft Lync Server 2010...
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Office 365 |
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Ty Anderson | December 9th, 2011
Last week I shared news of rumors that Microsoft plans to release an Office version for the iPad. I remain skeptical, but hopeful, they will do it. After all, as Bill Gates often says, Microsoft "is a software company". If they are a software company, then they should work to have their software on every platform and devise possible...
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Office |
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Andrei Smolin | December 8th, 2011
Add-in Express implements a version-independent approach to handling events of an Outlook item. The class implementing this is called ADXOutlookItemEvents. I recommend that you regard this class as a set of event handlers; you can implement several such classes to follow several business rules...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, Object model, Outlook, VB.NET |
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I hope by this time you have signed up for and are using Office 365. From what I've gathered from various sources on the internet and even our local radio stations it looks like Office 365 is starting to take the world by storm...
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Office 365 |
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Ty Anderson | December 6th, 2011
I don't think I have slept this past week. No, it isn't what you might think. Despite perceptions imposed upon me as editor of the Newswire… it isn't because I have been spending all my time tracking news related to Office 365...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Andrei Smolin | December 5th, 2011
You should be aware that no such event exists. Let's create it. In Excel 2007 - 2010, you can change the calculation mode using the buttons shown in the screenshot below...
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.NET, C#, COM add-ins, CommandBars, Excel, Object model, Office, Ribbon, VB.NET |
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If you've used SharePoint, I'm sure the first thing you would've noticed is the Ribbon UI. The SharePoint ribbon provides users with a familiar Office user interface and it is also extensible for developers. This means developers can add their own tabs, groups and controls to the ribbon...
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Office 365, SharePoint |
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Ty Anderson | December 2nd, 2011
I've been itching to write about this news since Wednesday. It's a rumor… not news but lots of people wrote articles about it so that makes it news. Here are some of the better articles that report the rumor...
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Office |
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