Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Office Newswire: SharePoint 15 – What we know thus far? – 2.8.2012
Ty Anderson | February 8th, 2012
I know last week included several versions of the same news regarding Office 15 Tech Preview. Other than that, we don't know much of anything. But MSFT did release a SharePoint 15 SDK. So there is a some actual info here... along with some speculation to make it fun... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook 2010 Solutions Module revisited
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 2nd, 2012
It's been a year and seven months since my first article about the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module. Time sure flies when you're having fun. Since I first wrote the article, I received numerous comments and questions about the Outlook 2010 Solutions module, mostly on how to programmatically add items to it... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Office 15 begins technical preview – 2.1.2012
Ty Anderson | February 1st, 2012
Office 15 news! Let the speculation begin. Microsoft made the announcement and then offered little to know details. Look for a public beta late this summer. What happens after that? Let's speculate!... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – connecting business logic to Office events
Ty Anderson | January 26th, 2012
On Tuesday we published Part 3 of the end-to-end demo. Today, we have Part 4. In reality parts 3 and 4 can be taken together but we thought it's better to break them up a bit and provide a bit of a break. But we have momentum now so let's keep this train a-moving because Part 5 is almost ready for its debut as well.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Outlook & SharePoint integration, Business Connectivity Services – 1.25.2012
Ty Anderson | January 25th, 2012
SharePoint is a 'document coffin', says IBM. In this lead new item, the author reports a bunch of words from IBM's VP of Social Software. With these words, this gentleman makes a ridiculous argument and successfully garners a few headlines about IBM's social and productivity software... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – interacting with Office object models & events
Ty Anderson | January 24th, 2012
I admit some time has passed since we produced parts 1 and part 2 of our end-to-end demo. I'll take the blame for it. It's okay. But I want you to know the remaining parts have been sitting in my Outlook Tasks folder… staring at me… taunting me.
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How to load your Office COM add-in on condition
Andrei Smolin | January 20th, 2012
A typical problem is: how to unload my add-in if a custom condition is met. This blog post is about how to solve this problem.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: The Office Ribbon secret decoder ring – 1.18.2012
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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How to navigate through the Microsoft Office Command Bar system
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... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Microsoft & CES, Office on the iPad news – 1.11.12
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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Office Newswire: Strategies and tools to stay organized and productive in 2012 – 1.4.2012
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... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Last Minute Christmas Edition – 12.22.2011
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... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: get the actual type name behind System.__ComObject with Visual C# or VB.NET
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... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Office + iPad – 12.16.2011
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... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: replying from a context-menu
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.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Inspector.Activate
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.... Read the rest of this entry →