July 2004 - Posts

When the VSTO Team Talks, I Listen
27 July 04 09:55 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Mike Hernadez of Microsoft contacted me to let me know that the Visual Studio Tools for Office Team is starting a series of Web Casts for VSTO 2.0. This is where you have a chance to ask questions of the team and to also see what others are talking about Read More...
Look Out for LookOut it's now Free
25 July 04 06:28 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
A few days ago I was discussing the online rant that has been occuring over LookOut. Many users felt uneasy for a while that after Microsoft's acquisition of LookOut it might disappear into some future product line leaving us hanging. Well after a few Read More...
MicroEye Provides Useful Resources for Outlook Programmers
22 July 04 02:00 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
As any Outlook programmer will tell you, Outlook programming can be mysterious and frought with adventure (and even some danger!). I'm often on the look out ( no pun intended ) for useful resources that will help me tame the Outlook programming beast. Read More...
The Death of LookOut?
20 July 04 04:13 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
Today Joel on Software went on a minor rampage about Microsoft's acquisition of LookOut. Rampage may be a bit strong, but he is clearly communicating what everyone else is asking: what is the future of Lookout? LookOut is a young and immature Outlook Read More...
OfficeZealot.com Helps You Get Things Done
19 July 04 10:32 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
It seems that everyone I talk to feels overwhelmed by tasks to complete, meetings to attend, e-mail clogging their inbox and stacks of paper in their office that could collapse in on them at any moment. There are 1440 minutes in a day and for the average Read More...
Getting to Know IBF
16 July 04 07:34 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I just listened to Michael Kiselman's presentation on IBF at http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/salestraining/recordedeventregister.asp?eid=525 . This was an enjoyable presenation to learn about IBF, how its positioned, what is involved in buildnig Read More...
Getting Started with Visual Studio Tools for Office 2004
15 July 04 01:26 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
If you have started working with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 you are probably excited about all the new cool features. I'm totally enamored with VS 2005 and don't ever want to have to go back to VS 2003. Though reality will dictate that I will have too Read More...
Office 2003 Resource Kit (ONLINE) - Great Resource
13 July 04 07:24 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
In my opinion the Office Resoure kit is one of the most useful and yet untapped resources for managing the use of Office in the enterprise. If your not familiar with the Office resource kit it's well worth looking at. For each new version of Office, Microsoft Read More...
SMS from Office 2003
09 July 04 09:04 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
A good friend of mine from the UK ( Matt Nunn ) told me a few years ago after he moved to the states that the U.S. phone system was so far behind Europe. I remember him talking about this technology called SMS that every one used there for brief messaging Read More...
Free Software if you Blog on Office (Read more to find out)
08 July 04 02:35 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
The good folks over at Email Templates are extending a special offer to those in the Office blogging community. Email Templates is a cool addin for Outlook with many features (some listed below). I think this is a great example of a great vendor supporting Read More...
LookOut for Some Confusion
03 July 04 12:05 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
I've been seeing a lot of nice reviews about LookOut recently. Some of the blogs I've read were confusing me. I was thinking: "Hey LookOut doesn't do that." Well it turns out there are two products out there using the word LookOut in their product name. Read More...
Be More Productive ...
02 July 04 12:06 PM | chris | 0 Comments   
The gang over at the Be More Productive ... website has created a list of useful tips and resources for Word & Excel. They also have a nice list of useful websites out on the web realted to Excel . Read More...
Help! My CommandBarButton events stop firing
02 July 04 09:24 AM | chris | 0 Comments   
Mark Bower Tuesday posted a simple tip for a very very very common question: This is perhaps the most frequently asked question I hear when writing managed COM Addins or Smart Docs. You've wired up an event handler to catch button clicks of custom menu Read More...
Announcement: Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Beta
01 July 04 08:00 AM | chris | 1 Comments   
I'm so excited!!! The next versionof Visual Studio Tools for Office version 2.0 went into beta. Over the next few months, I plan to blog extensively on VSTO 2 as I think when you combine it with the new functionality of Office 2003 we have an amazing Read More...