Erika Ehrli - Adventures with Office Products & Technologies
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MSDN Office Developer Center - Behind the Scenes
We are getting ready for Beta 2 and we have been working hard to produce articles, videos,...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 04/18/2006
Getting ready for the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006
The Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006 will be held in Redmond, WA next week; so...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 03/17/2006
Project and Project Server resources for developers
I have the honor of sharing an office with Jim Corbin, who is the programmer writer for Project. Jim...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 03/15/2006
Office 2007 and SharePoint PDC recorded sessions
Some time ago I shared a pointer to the Office & SharePoint PDC '05 slide decks. I just got in...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 03/07/2006
MS + Office + Channel 9: Meet the guys, learn about new features, and have a good laugh
The Channel 9 team has defined a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers and one...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 02/27/2006
The official name: 2007 Microsoft® Office system
Finally, I am able to spell the real name for the next version of Office: 2007 Microsoft® Office...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 02/16/2006
How to: Generate autonumbered lists using WordML (2003)
I was reading today an internal distribution list and I saw an interesting thread about autonumbered...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 02/07/2006
Visio Connector for Project/EPM/SPS
You should check this out! Imtiyaz Mubarak (a developer, Microsoft Parter, and friend from India)...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 02/03/2006
How to subcribe to Office "12" Beta 2 Program
I have been receiving some emails from developers who can't wait to start playing around with Office...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/26/2006
Looking for C# and VB code samples?
Look what I just found: 101 Visual Basic and C# Code Samples. The www has lots of great things out...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/25/2006
Office "12" bloggers list
To view the list of Office "12" bloggers from my previous blog entry you must have Microsoft®...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/24/2006
Excel Services and Office "12" bloggers list
I have been playing around with Office "12" and SharePoint "v3" and I am quite surprised of how easy...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/23/2006
Office "12" supports "Save As PDF" programmatically
As a developer, I was quite excited to learn that Office "12" will allow you to save documents as...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/11/2006
Get a sneak peek at Windows Vista and Microsoft Office "12"
If you want to learn more about Windows Vista and Microsoft Office "12", you can enroll to the ISV...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/11/2006
Happy new Office "12" year!
I have given my blog a long winter vacation and here I am back and quite excited to start writing...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 01/06/2006
Generating Active Directory Diagrams with Visio 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003
Last week we published a new Office Talk column: Generating Active Directory Diagrams with Visio...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 12/12/2005
Extracting Microsoft Office Application Properties without automation
Every file created by a Microsoft Office application supports a set of built-in document properties....
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 11/30/2005
How to indent an XML file or document
Office has a deeper integration with XML technology and developers are always looking for tips and...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 11/16/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Launch and my favorite features
Today is a great day for Microsoft: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and Biztalk were launched....
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 11/07/2005
How to: Uploading a File to a SharePoint Library Site from a Local Folder
I am currently developing an application that will help my team (Office Developer Documents) to...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 11/03/2005
Microsoft announces Windows Live™ and Microsoft® Office Live
Technology and the Internet created an information revolution that has changed our lives. Today,...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 11/01/2005
How to programmatically generate Microsoft Excel AutoFiltered Lists with C#
One of my favorite features in Microsoft Excel is AutoFilter. I love to manage lists of data in...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 10/27/2005
Visit the new InfoPath Developer Portal
The Office Developer Center has a new version of the InfoPath Developer Portal. Visit this portal to...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 10/17/2005
My two cents... (as my team says)
I remember many days (and nights too) when I was desperate trying to find some source code,...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 10/13/2005
Host an Interactive Visio Drawing Surface in .NET Custom Clients
I was making some research on Visio development for managed applications and I found this...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 10/11/2005
Getting the best out of bookmarks in Microsoft Word
Suppose you have a .NET application that needs to open a Word document and insert data from a...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 10/06/2005
Office "12" supports "Save As PDF"
I didn't know about that, but Office Online receives over 120,000 queries per month requesting the...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 10/03/2005
How to add massive "find and replace text" functionality to your MCMS 2002 site
I was talking to a customer last week at PDC and we were discussing about the possibilities offered...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 09/22/2005
Office & SharePoint PDC slides
I am back at Redmond and before I continue with my after-trip duties, I want to share with you the...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 09/19/2005
Office & SharePoint at PDC (15-Sep-05)
Do I have stuff to talk about today! The track lounge became quite popular today after more cool...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 09/15/2005
First look to Microsoft Office "12" XML Schema Reference at the Office Developer Center
Microsoft continues to invest deeply in XML in Office. The new release of Microsoft Office "12"...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 09/14/2005
Office & SharePoint at PDC (14-Sep-05)
I was dying to blog since I woke up this morning and finally I got a chance to sit down and share...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 09/14/2005
Office & SharePoint at PDC (13-Sep-05)
So here we are at PDC 2005! Bill Gates and Chris Caposella (the VP for Information Worker Division...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 09/13/2005
Speaking about possibilites with Office and XML...
You should check out the Excel XML Writer Library and the Excel XML Writer Library Code Generator...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 08/31/2005
Ode to XML in Office
Since I woke up this morning I was thinking how XML has changed the information systems world. I...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 08/31/2005
Hosting Office in .NET applications
If you are building a .NET application and you are struggling to find a way to host Word documents,...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 08/26/2005
Starting a new adventure...
Greetings fellow developers! My name is Erika Ehrli and I am the new Site Manager of the MSDN Office...
Author: Erika Ehrli Cabral Date: 08/24/2005