May 2004 - Posts

Final Day at TechED
28 May 04 11:33 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Today I head home after a long and exciting week. Yesterday I gave my Research Service presentation and it was well received by attendees. To my surprise, most had never seen Research services before and I had to explain some of the overall concepts and Read More...
Andrew Whitechapel Wins Session of the Day Award in my Book
26 May 04 07:36 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
All week I?ve been attending a lot of exciting Office sessions and the content is superb. The planners behind the Office content have done the best job I?ve seen in years. The content is focused, relevant, useful today and providing guidance for tomorrow. Read More...
IBF Session @ TechEd Tomorrow Morning – I’ll be there
26 May 04 02:44 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Tomorrow Alex Marchicelli, Program Manager on the Information Bridge Framework Team will be presenting IBF in a session at 10:15 AM in Room 2 called the BPR362 ? XML Web Services: Bridging Microsoft Office Applications and Enterprise Information . Alex Read More...
Day 3 @ TechEd - IBF Architecture Overview
26 May 04 08:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
The Information Bridge Framework helps connect Microsoft Office to enterprise resources. How is this done? IBF is made up of two components, one for the server and one for the client. The server component called the Information Bridge Metadata Service Read More...
Day 2 @ TechEd – IBF is a Success
25 May 04 04:10 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
TechEd day 2 is off to a great start. Already I?ve seen a lot of friends, met friends in person for the first time and also have made new friends. Yes! Office is a big happy family. Yesterday the Information Bridge Framework team announced their product Read More...
Steve Ballmer Announces Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework at TechEd Today
24 May 04 03:26 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Sorry this post is so late, i've had a hard time connecting to the network today via the TechEd wireless network. I?m in the San Diego, CA Convention center attending the Microsoft TechEd 2004 conference. The show is sold out with 11,000 attendees (who Read More...
In the Airport - Let the Geekness Begin
23 May 04 11:28 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I'm sitting in the Minneapolis, MN airport waiting to depart for San Diego and the geekness has already begun. There are atleast 8 people heading for TechEd sitting in the terminal already. The conversations I've overheard: * Should I build an ADO.NET Read More...
Off to TechEd and Check Back Tomorrow for an OfficeZealot.com Announcement
23 May 04 08:32 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I'm departing for TechEd late this morning and should arrive in the afternoon. If you need to reach me, I'm staying at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. I can also be reached on cell phone: 952-457-9188. Don't forget to visit OfficeZealot.com tomorrow. We are Read More...
Let's Meet at TechEd in San Diego Monday Night
21 May 04 09:34 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Next week Charles and I will be at TechEd in San Diego. We want to extend a general invitation to meet up with us Monday at 7:00 PM in the Microsoft Pavilion, namely the IBF booth. Monday night is the Exhibit Hall party. We can then grab a table, food, Read More...
Attend my TechEd Session Next Week
20 May 04 08:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I can't believe in just a few days I'll be heading to speak at TechEd. This will be my 5th year as a TechEd speaker and I have to tell you that my spider senses are telling me this is going to be the best one yet. There is a lot of great Office content Read More...
Speaking of Productivity, Great Demotivator to Get More Out of Employees
18 May 04 03:33 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
For a long time I have enjoyed the Demotivators from Dispair, Inc. They are a funny twist on work place motivators. I especially like this little sign you can hang from the ceiling to help your employees. I think we may put this up in all our corporate Read More...
What is the Best Rich Client Blogging tool?
14 May 04 08:51 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I hate the browser! The browser has all the romance of the DOS command prompt. Don't get me wrong, the browser is great for reading information and research. But it's horrible for any kind of real world data entry. Since I started blogging, I've come Read More...
XP Style WinForms in Word
12 May 04 01:22 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
A while back I was working on a COM Add-in for Microsoft Word with .NET. I wanted to use XP themed forms in my solution but could not figure out how to make it work. XP requiresa manifest file to be in the same directory with the EXE to make this work. Read More...
PerfectXML.com Research Library for Microsoft Office 2003
12 May 04 08:19 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
One of my favorite new technologies in Office 2003 is the Research Library. PerfectXML.com has released a research service that allows you reference their articles for research from within Microsoft Office. Check it out at: http://www.perfectxml.com/Research Read More...
Viewer for InfoPath from Unique World Software
11 May 04 10:44 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Back in a February post I lamented: I have wondered why no one has yet made a commercial product, the InfoPath Viewer. I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but InfoPath takes advantage of XML, XSLT, script and Trident (the display engine used by Read More...
Newsgator Reading Tip for Outlook 2003
05 May 04 02:05 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
As many of you know, I?m a Newsgator fan and have been religiously using it for months now. I want to share a small (and possibly very obvious) tip with you. In general, there are two ways to read posts downloaded by Newsgator in Outlook. First you can Read More...
Working Smart -- Another Great Blog has Started
01 May 04 03:30 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Michael Hyatt, President and Chief Operating Officer of Thomas Nelson Publishers has just started blogging on productivity. His blog can be found at michaelhyatt.blogs.com . Being the president of a large company you can assume he is a busy guy and efficiency Read More...