June 2004 - Posts

HOW TO: Set the Mask Property and the Picture Property for an Office 2003 CommandBar Button
30 June 04 03:25 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Microsoft Office XP introduces two new properties to the CommandBarButton object: the Mask and Picture properties. You can use these properties to place pictures on custom generated command bar controls. Interested in putting custom images into a button Read More...
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and the Express Edition Betas have launched
29 June 04 09:45 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Duncan Mackenzie today points out that Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and the Express Edition Betas have launched. The express editions are aparently a cost effective version of Visual Studio for hobbiest and enthusiast. In other words, they want to make it Read More...
Uniqueworld Ships InfoPath Viewer
28 June 04 07:35 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Uniqueworld has released InfoView . Here is how their website describes the product: It is two applications in one: An InfoPath to web form delivery engine with: Ability for the user to fill in, interact and post back data via InfoView created forms Ability Read More...
Interview with Michael Kiselman on IBF
25 June 04 04:13 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Check out this interview with Michael Kiselman on IBF. I even got to add my 10 cents on IBF. Read More...
Power of IBF for LOB ISVs
24 June 04 01:16 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Paddy Srinivasan blogged yesterday about the power of IBF. He makes an interesting comment that I have personally experienced as he demoed IBF: The amazing thing is that the audience was not even half technical and it still resonated. When people see Read More...
Another Request for an InfoPath Viewer
18 June 04 06:06 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
If Microsoft were to create an InfoPath viewer what features would you want? Why do I ask? Today Doug Staubach made an interesting comment on one of my previous blog entries about his desire for even a simple InfoPath Viewer. I thought his request was Read More...
Vertigo Smart Document Wrapper
17 June 04 03:44 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
In my last post I talked about Task Pane programmability. Jon Simpson reminded me in the newsgroups that there is a great (FREE) tool out from Vertigo that helps simplify the development of a Smart Document in .NET. Check out the tool at Vertigo Software Read More...
FEEL the PAIN: Task Panes, Action Panes, Smart Documents, and Sig Weber
12 June 04 08:18 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I met Sig a few years back while speaking at TechEd Europe (Amsterdam 1999). At that point Sig was an Outlook, CDO & Exchange guru. Today he is still the guru but has expanded his interest into SharePoint. Recently he has had some great posts about what Read More...
Visual SourceSafe Road Map Published
11 June 04 10:09 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Microsoft has published information about an update to SourceSafe called Visual Source Safe 2005. Here are a few highlights in the list of new functionality:x Remote Web Access over HTTP Support for Custom Viewers, Merge Tools, and Editors Managed Code Read More...
Problem with the Restricted Policy in VSTO on Some Objects
10 June 04 10:55 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
A developer was having a hard time using the XML serialization object with VSTO. This thread in google http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=289d6c7d97061702&seekm=OUZ%24Kl%24sDHA.4056%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&frame=off discusses how to Read More...
Beautiful people use Microsoft Office, or do they?
09 June 04 10:39 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Yesterday I received the Microsoft Office Insider newsletter in my in box. This is a useful regular letter with pointers to new and interesting resources related to Microsoft Office. One thing I noticed though is that they always have these pictures great Read More...
IBF Debugging Hint
07 June 04 07:30 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Today in the newsgroups someone asked: QUESTION: Is there a way to debug the process when the "Show Details" menu item is clicked? When I click "Show Details" in Word the Information Builder task pane appears but my user interface is not loaded. I suspect Read More...
How to conquer procrastination
03 June 04 06:20 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
I'll blog about this subject later. :-) Read More...
Sue Mosher's Outlook Site is the Best on the Web
03 June 04 10:05 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Sue Mosher has built one of the best technology sites I've seen for Microsoft Outlook. The site is called http://www.outlookcode.com . The site compliments her book with: Discussion Forums News Articles The site is mostly designed for developers and addresses Read More...
Visual Studio 2005 Team System - Developer Dream Come True
02 June 04 03:47 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
TechEd 2004 was an exciting week of announcements. First, we were excited to see the announcement regarding the Information Bridge Framework . Another exciting announcement is for a new product called Visual Studio 2005 Team System. You can get an overview Read More...