Office Zealot

  Last year I attended Build 2011. It was highly secretive and more or less Apple-ified kind of conference held by Microsoft however this time. No one knew what to expect other than that Microsoft planned to make a big shift in their plans for the upcoming years. As I blogged about it last time, it seemed that Microsoft decided to align ...

I spent Thursday, April 26th in New York attending the 5th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference. I was on hand to assist with one of the VSTO demonstrations. The demo used an application that OZ developed last year for the Office System Developers Conference. It is a sales forecasting application that was inspired by an honest to ...

I'm in Las Vegas this week presenting at the Office Connections conference. So far, the weather in Las Vegas has been perfect - wish I could say the same thing about my luck with gambling. The conference is at Mandalay Bay, which is an absolutely huge facility. Very nice. One of the coolest sessions I attended so far was Scott Guthrie's session on ...

Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene are kicking off this year's Office Developer Conference. Check out the live webcast on MSDN. Attending? Be sure to check out Darryn Lavery's presentation on using the VSTO ServerDocument - specifically titled Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2005: Building and Deploying a Server Application.

I'm leaving for Microsoft's 2nd Office Developer Conference on Monday. Any fellow zealots planning on attending? Last year's conference was very informative and this year's conference should be even more so considering all that is new with Office 2007. Hope to see some of you there!

The first ever Microsoft Office Developer Conference was an excellent event. I spoke with many attendees throughout the event and nearly all of them were pleased with the event and the quality of the sessions. Here are a few of my observations and comments. Cheers to Office Zealot blogger Matt Hessinger. He led a session on the code snippet ...