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July 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:02 PM

A conversation on XML in "Office 12" with Brian Jones...

Brian Jones is one of the key program manager's at Microsoft responsible for delivering on the XML vision in “Office 12”. Chris and I had the opportunity to talk with Brian in the latest Office Zealot podcast . Brian has totally been a busy
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Friday, July 22, 2005 9:59 AM

Why do I always like the code names better? "Longhorn" goes "Vista"

Seems funny that, but I always get stuck on the code names (probably because they are around so long and become so entrenched) that I really don't look forward to 'marketing' name being announced. I remember one of worst (for me) was InfoPath . Not that
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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:28 PM

PDC lineup announced around "Office"...

The sessions for “Office 12” at PDC have been listed online at http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx . Besides the overall unprecedented abundance of Office topics, the thing that sets out in my mind is how may of these sessions
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:42 PM

New VSTO 2005 Article

I have a new article up MSDN called “ Creating a Capital Expenditure Model with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office and Excel 2003 Using Visual Basic and C# ”. Now anyone who knows me knows I didn't name it because the title is way too long
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Friday, July 01, 2005 11:02 PM

The Power of the Podcast - Chris talks w/ John Durant about VSTO's Outlook Support

So I just took some time off and came back to see Chris has kept the OZ podcast ball rolling. This one is with the new John Durant, now of the Visual Studio Tools for Office team. This is where the podcast idea is so powerful. I take a little breather,
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