February 2004 - Posts

OfficeZealot.com Radio Show????
27 February 04 11:23 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Charles and I are big fans of Carl Franklins .NET Rocks Internet Audio Talk Show . In a nutshell, it's a talk show targeted at .NET developers. They interview movers and shakers in the .NET world. I've listened to every episode since its started in August Read More...
VSTO 2.0: The Next Generation
23 February 04 08:20 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Today I noticed that Peter Torr and Paul Cornell started a VSTO 2.0 blog. Since VSTO 2.0 is not a released product or even in beta, we can only assume that there will be something for them to talk about soon regarding the next version of Visual Studio Read More...
Lockergnome Review of OfficeZealot.com
19 February 04 11:27 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Yesterday OfficeZealot.com was featured at Lockergnome . It was a nice review that highlighted the diversity represented in the list of Office Bloggers at this site. Kudos to all you bloggers for your great thoughts on Office. Check out the review at Read More...
Word XML & Paragraph Breaks
16 February 04 09:41 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I was reviewing some of my notes from the Office 2003 beta time frame and I came across an interesting newsgroup posting from Brian Jones of the Microsoft Word team. He posted this explanation of how Word loads an XML file. ---------------------------- Read More...
Who Has Been Blogging About Office The Longest?
14 February 04 05:25 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
I've been browsing the blogs on OfficeZealot.com and I am so impressed with the quality of bloggers talking about the Office System. What's interesting is the quality of the blogs from people who don't work at Microsoft. Microsoft may have the inside Read More...
Why Sharepoint really isn't used for weblogging
13 February 04 09:03 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Today Robert Scoble blogged about why SharePoint isn't being used for weblogging. Up front, it would seem that SharePoint with its ability to easily create lists and data entry pages makes it ideal for blogging. I originally started blogging with SharePoint, Read More...
Office 2003 SP1 Enhancements
11 February 04 10:47 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Neowin.net reports to have some screenshots of the SP1 version of InfoPath and rumors about new features for Office 2003 SP1. This brings up the continuing debate surrounding Service packs. Should service packs just contain bug fixes or is it O.K. to Read More...
nUnit Testing for Smart Documents Question
10 February 04 09:31 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Recently, a reader of my blogsent me an interesting question that I could not answer. I thought I'd share it with you and see if you have an answer: I am writing a Smart Document solution in Word, and am trying to setup unit tests with nunit. I have posted Read More...
StarOffice Zealot? I think not!
09 February 04 07:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I went to Sun's website to learn more about StarOffice 7.0. First, it took me a bit of time to find the StarOffice entry page, Sun runs there website like the only users that come to their site are sysadmins looking for server info. Just for kicks, go Read More...
InfoPath Viewer
06 February 04 08:47 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Today Laura J makes a key point about InfoPath: Also, under the terms of the licensing of open and royalty-free XML schemas for Office (including InfoPath), companies can create a browser-based offering (or even a rich client, if desired) compatible with Read More...
Great Bill Coan Article on XML
05 February 04 01:41 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Bill Coan is a great author. I was excited to see John Durant announce his article is now up on MSDN. This article is a high level overview of XML in office 2003 and its benefits. I think this has a large audience, as everyone knows XML is important to Read More...
MSDN Gets a Nice Face Lift
05 February 04 01:32 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
I noticed today that MSDN Online web site has a shiny new look. Things are lighter and also seem a bit snappier. This is a nice change, the last site color tone was dark. (Last thing you want is a depressing color when your already up late debugging.) Read More...
Zimmerman's OneNote Book Gains the OfficeZealot.com Stamp of Approval!
05 February 04 07:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Joe Andreshak suggested that we also give books the OfficeZealot.com Stamp of Approval. I liked the idea, and I knew a book instantly worth acknowledging. Over the last three days I've shared my view on the new Microsoft OneNote product. It's useful, Read More...
MSDN RSS Feed Unreliable?
04 February 04 03:37 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Kudos to the MSDN team for providing RSS feeds to their articles. Now I don't have to randomly check every day or so (yeah, I'm a super geek who can't enough from MSDN). HOWEVER, I?ve subscribed to the MSDN.com RSS feed and it seems to frequently return Read More...
Reality Sets In & the Fusion of Outlook & OneNote???
04 February 04 07:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
The Reality of Being ONE with OneNote At this point, it might seem that I dislike OneNote more than I love it. The reality is that OneNote is useful, but you have to be realistic about its potential. OneNote is a digital note-taking application. OneNote Read More...
OneNote--8 Things I don't like
03 February 04 07:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Yesterday I talked about a number of things I really like about OneNote. At the same time, I also struggle with OneNote . I find some tasks difficult and even clumsy to do. Let me relate a few things that come to my mind: 1) It uses the notion of folders, Read More...
Being One with OneNote
02 February 04 07:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Microsoft OneNote is a new application that ships as a part of the Microsoft Office 2003 System. This unique application targets digitally collecting and organizing notes. OneNote has generated a lot of interest because it addresses a unique problem: Read More...