John R. Durant's WebLog
Blog of "The" Office Developer
Job Change: Bring back the blog
I used to blog a lot, and a lot of people used to read my blog. Some people still look at the old...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/05/2008
Release of Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office Case Studies
What are customers doing with VSTO and Microsoft technologies generally? We have recently published...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/27/2008
Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2!
Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Visual Studio,Office,Microsoft,Devleoper,MSDN,VSTO,VBA,WPF,OBA We just...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/27/2008
Visual Studio Tools for Office Power Tools v1.0!
Technorati Tags: SharePoint,VSTO,VS...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/22/2008
Worldwide Software Democracy
It's true- to give is better than to receive...for the right reasons and in the right way. Video:...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/22/2008
Chad Z. Hower aka "Kudzu"VSTO Excel Solution for the Wii
Chad Z. Hower, aka "Kudzu", A Microsoft colleague has created a VSTO application that lets you...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/21/2007
NET helpmsg
I am running Windows Vista (liking it more every day), and a Windows Update failed. I received this...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/14/2007
Updated Deployment Papers for VSTO 2005 SE
My colleague, Darryn Lavery, just finished the update to his very popular VSTO 2005 deployment...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/09/2007
Office File Conversion Tool
The Office Migration Planning Manager tool is now final and up on the Microsoft download...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/20/2007
What's New in Office 2007- Article List
On one of our internal Microsoft discussion lists someone asked for a feature comparison between...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/08/2006
Where did "Local Settings"; and "Application Data" go or "Where do I put my Outlook signatures on Vista?"
I have to admit that I am being steadily won over by Windows Vista. I was running pre-RTM builds,...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/30/2006
Product and Corporate Odds and Ends
I'm cleaning up my inbox, and I have a whole mess of odds and ends (some just product announcements)...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/20/2006
Outlook 2007 and the NavigationModule
I feel empathy for the person who is tackling Outlook development for the first time. Thanks to a...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/28/2006
Time/Resources/Features
Being a PM at Microsoft boils down to being a project manager. Some PMs are really technical while...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/14/2006
Assemblies and Public Key Tokens
I'm working on a SharePoint v3 workflow project using the out-of-the-box (OOB) techniques. In order...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/24/2006
First Look at Windows Vista Part 2
Alright, so my upgrade went well. That's cool. Here are random likes and dislikes: Start Menu I like...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/16/2006
First Look at Windows Vista
Well, I am back to blogging after emerging from a vortex here at work over the past five months....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/14/2006
VSTO v3 CTP & Stadium Arcadium
First, I have some info about our CTP release of VSTO v3, and then I blog about the Red Hot Chili...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/23/2006
Using Using According to Proper Usage
Have you ever been in a conversation or meeting when terms are being used that you somehow sense you...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/02/2006
Overwrite Custom XML Part in Office 2007 file
Julie Kremer (everyone should know her) had a great post in March about how to overwrite a custom...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/28/2006
OpenXMLDeveloper.org and Bill Gates Keynote
I just left the Office Developer Conference 2006 keynote where Chairman and Chief Software...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/21/2006
Want to be my co-worker?
Yeah, you could have an office just a couple of doors down from me, and that could be a good thing....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/09/2006
Singleton Windows Form example for Office Developers
Every now and then, a request comes through the forums or ng's about how to code an application so...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/28/2006
UDFs in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office: put your VBA where it belongs
I fielded a question from an eager VSTO developer in the forums. It was about the UDF-managed code...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/20/2006
Accessing the COMAddins Collection
I have had the question posed to me twice in the last week: If I am automating Outlook from another...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/30/2006
Host Word in winform Application
We had a question in the VSTO Forums about hosting Word on a winform in .NET. I thought I would give...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/23/2006
Unsung Heros of Office Development
I think I am going to more frequently call out people who amaze the heck out of me. The biggest risk...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/19/2006
ServerDocument in VSTO 2005 and Adolesence
We are pushing more, and more, and more content about VSTO all of time. We just had one go live that...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/18/2006
C# Examples to improve your VSTO coding
OK– I’m down to having only 12 IE windows open. After this post, there will be only 11....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/05/2006
VSTO 2005- Working with Encrypted Email
I was answering another question in our forum, and a user was creating a wicked add-in with our...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/05/2006
Startup Switches for Microsoft Word
I was answering a user’s question in our VSTO Forum, and I used data from this KB: How to use...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/05/2006
Cancel Event Does Not Fire in Office Interop
I have a load of IE windows open on my desktop with data I wanted to blog about, so I have several...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/05/2006
Microsof Word Shortcuts Galore
One of our Office MVPs has a site called "Serenity Macros". Candidly speaking, much of the content...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/05/2006
Deploying VSTO 2005 Solutions with Windows Installer
One of my peers, Darryn Lavery, has published the most comprehensive treatment of VSTO 2005 solution...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/04/2006
Debug VSTO Add-in or Customization
One of our best supporters in the MSDN forums, Dave (davidthi808), asked an excellent question the...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/20/2005
VSTO Forum: Outlook 2003 Blocked Senders List
One of the questions on the VSTO msdn forums was about how to access the Blocked Senders list in...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/14/2005
Consolidated list of VSTO Outlook resources
When I answer questions in the forums or ng's, I point people to https://msdn.microsoft.com/office to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/07/2005
What are people saying about the Office 12 XML ECMA Standardization?
It's big news: We are working with other big companies like Intel, Toshiba, and Apple, to make the...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/22/2005