April 2004 - Posts

VSTO 2 Gods, Please Pardon My Error!
30 April 04 09:13 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Over a year and a half ago, this little known team building Visual Studio Tools for Office invited me to a private meeting to talk about the future of Office Development. What they showed me was working code of a number of Office developer tools under Read More...

Bye! Bye! Smart Document API -- We won't miss you!
28 April 04 07:05 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Yesterday I watch Kathleen McGrath talk about Visual Studio Tools for Office version 2.0 (VSTO2). One of the cool things she showed is how VSTO2 will make it easy to build an ActionPane. What is an ActionPane? It is a programmable TaskPane, similar to Read More...

Kathleen McGrath talks about VSTO 2 today at 11AM Pacific
27 April 04 08:44 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Today Kathleen McGrath is discussing Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2: Developing Word Solutions with Visual Studio .NET Whidbey . Here she demonstrates how to use the new actions pane, provided by Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tools for the Microsoft Read More...

Another GTD Fan is Born
27 April 04 08:34 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

">Mike Sax of Sax software is now a converted GTD fan. Welcome to the club Mike! We need to get more on board, just imagine a universe of organized IT pros and developers. Yes, it's scary, but possible. Read More...

Oleg has an Article on MSDN
26 April 04 02:48 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Our resident XML Guru Oleg Tkachenko' has a nice article published up on MSDN Combining XML Documents with XInclude . So far I've really enjoyed Oleg's research into XML and his explanations on his blog. I'm excited to see he is writing for MSDN. Read More...

Bella will be at TechEd, will you?
23 April 04 02:28 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Ok, Bella (my niece) won't be at TechEd. But this was such a cute picture of her I had to put it somewhere. Read More...

Can Newsgator Pull Down Entire Article?
23 April 04 12:46 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Can Newsgator pull down the entire article from an RSS feed? Newsgator by default shows you the text in the RSS feed. I'm curious if it can actaully grab the whole page that the feed is based on? Read More...

More Info on VSTO 2
22 April 04 09:36 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

I?m excited to see small tidbits from various Microsoft folks talking about the next version of Visual Studio Tools for Office. I have seen it demonstrated and even used it a little bit and have to tell you its darn exciting! I?m so impressed with what Read More...

Geeks Unite (and get more efficient) with GTD
21 April 04 09:01 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

About 4 months ago Marc Orchant started blogging with us at OfficeZealot.com and since then he has shared over 200 productivity suggestions. His blog is also the most popular here on OfficeZealot.com. I think this proves a point: people who use Office Read More...

I'm at TechEd this year. Are you?
13 April 04 08:49 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

This year I'm speaking at TechEd 2004 in San Diego. I'm excited about this conference! It seems every year Microsoft gets better at throwing great conferences, and this one will be good as well. I know that the Office session conference manager ( Joe Read More...

Newsgroups from Outtook?
06 April 04 10:21 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Alexander posted an article today on a new Newsgroup add-in for outlook on his blog http://blogs.officezealot.com/gorlach/ . I haven't tried it yet, but this looks really good, just what I've been wanting. Read More...