November 2003 - Posts

XML Licensing - You have Microsoft's permission
20 November 03 09:18 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Microsoft recently made a media splash with the posting of the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas Licensing . In a nutshell, Microsoft is giving us the "permission" (there generosity is overwhelming) to use the XML created by Word, Excel and InfoPath in Read More...

The state of Smart Document Programming
18 November 03 09:08 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Office 2003 has been out for a little while now and it sure seems like a lot of people are exploring, researching, and developing smart documents. I'm curious what people think of them? Do they have business value? Finally, what are your thoughts on the Read More...

Storing Hidden XML In Word
17 November 03 03:32 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

This is a followup post to hosting hidden XML with in a Word document. Thanks to Cyril Mathey for sharing his C# code with us in the Newsgroups. public static void SetDocumentVariable(MSWord.Document wordDoc, string variableName, string variableValue) Read More...

Storing Hidden XML In Word
14 November 03 09:35 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

A fellow reader (Cyril Mathey) of the microsoft.public.office.xml newsgroup posed an interesting question: How can I hide XML in a Word document? This is a good question. There are times where you may want to store configuration related data or some form Read More...

Amazon Research Library Service Now Available
11 November 03 05:14 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Amazon.com is making a research library service available for Word and Excel 2003. You can download the add-in at amazon . I'm really excited about this, as its a great way for the average user to interact with Office and Amazon. Its also a great example Read More...

MSDN.com
11 November 03 09:10 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

I spend a lot of time at msdn.microsoft.com and I am often typing it into the URL browser because I may be going to differnet path. Examples: msdn.microsoft.com/office msdn.microsoft.com/xml msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio I know I could bookmark this, however Read More...

Retrieving XML Programmatically in Word (Do we need the Word Object Model anymore?)
09 November 03 04:24 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

In my last entry I spoke about the handy .InsertXML method. This method is a brute force method to insert WordML and Arbitrary XML into a Word Document. What if we want to get XML back out of a document? It is possible to save the entire document as WordML Read More...

TabletPC and OneNote
07 November 03 08:21 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

The first time I saw OneNote during Beta 1 of Office 2003 I knew it was a winner. So much so that I actually bought a Tablet PC to take full advantage of the paper notepad like experience. Now that Office 2003 has shipped, I am still using OneNote to Read More...

Get to know .InsertXML
06 November 03 04:50 PM | chris | 1 Comments   

As I began to work with the XML object model in Word 2003 I found that it was fairly extensive. However, there are often times when I want to do something “XML” related that the XML object model did not support. As an example, if I want to Read More...

PDC & Office
04 November 03 12:43 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

This past week was a big week for Microsoft and developers world wide with the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). At the PDC, Microsoft unveiled numerous new technologies and gave us a glimpse of the future. This included Longhorn (next major release Read More...

Welcome to the Office Blog
01 November 03 09:06 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Charles and I have finally joined the blogging bandwagon. Our main goal is to have an easy way to post those small, but relevant tidbits, ponderings, musings, and anything else about Office. If you specialize in Microsoft Office and are looking for a Read More...