John R. Durant's WebLog
Blog of "The" Office Developer
PInvoke, C#, Keyboard Settings, and My Manager (again)
If you have read my blog for a while, then you know about the app I wrote for my manager. There is...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/14/2004
XmlNode and XmlElement: the same...but different
A co-worker was looking at some code I wrote some time ago showing how to create and XML document...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/13/2004
WordML Lists- the nfc Element
There is great value in delving into detail, of course. With all of the elements in WordML- I have...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/03/2004
NotifyIcon and My Manager
Last week, my manager sent me a mail expressing his annoyance that sometimes his laptop (which has a...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/19/2004
Microsoft Word 2003: WordProcessingML Transform Inference Tool
OK- things are getting really exciting in the Word development universe. I am really happy to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/12/2004
Microsoft Office Word 2003 SDK
Developers that target Microsoft Word are a different breed in some ways. I think they are...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/08/2004
RTF or WordProcessingML and Office Solutions continued!
I am glad so many people have chimed in on the topic of RTF or XML, and more specifically the markup...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/29/2004
RTF or WordML for Office solutions?
I thank Gabe for posting this question: If you are not converting, why not just generate an RTF...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/26/2004
Follow-up: Microsoft Office 2003 and Server-Side
Somone posted feedback to my last post saying that I had offered little thought or direction. Beauty...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/25/2004
Microsoft Office 2003 and Server-based Solutions
As I was coming into work today, I was thinking about the kinds of solutions I have created or seen...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/22/2004
Set the Microsoft Office Username to the Windows Networking Username
I was going through my inbox looking for messages that I have not properly handled. Regretfully, I...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/21/2004
ActiveWords and Microsoft Office
I met with Buzz Bruggeman, evangelist extraordinaire for ActiveWords this morning. (I knew we would...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/07/2004
Keeping the Microsoft Office Developer Center Fresh
You will notice that the Office Developer Center has a new face! The good news is that most of these...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/30/2004
New Microsoft Office Development Material
Well, I am at home convalescing, but my team carries on in my absence. Here are some goodies we...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/28/2004
Developer for Microsoft Office System at risk once again
I missed some days writing because I was in a collision with a car last week. I was on my Trek 5200...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/27/2004
It's a publishing Frenzy for Microsoft Office products and technologies
We are in a Publishing Frenzy. Here are things we just pushed live: Getting Started with the...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/21/2004
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger and the mysterious Add-in capability
Sometimes, I get really confused. It's not always my fault. So, we made a strategic, key decision to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/20/2004
Microsoft Office and BMC software
I came across this case study showing how Office 2003 and SharePoint were used to help BMC sales...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/15/2004
Microsoft Office Developer Guidance
One of my colleagues here at Microsoft wrote something that was really so overdue: a sweeping yet...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/09/2004
Smart Tag Tools for Developing in Microsoft Office
If you have read my blog over the past months, you will have noticed that I love smart tag...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/08/2004
Microsoft Office Smart Tags and Searching Outlook Data
I wrote another article: Search Inbox Data Using Smart Tags in Word 2003. Basically, I wrote this...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/01/2004
Office 2003 Smart Tag Developer Tools are live
We have published the Office 2003 Smart Tag Developer Tools. These include some essential tools that...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/30/2004
Microsoft Office, Windows...OK, Everything, and ActiveWords
Back in February, I heard about ActiveWords from my friend, Chris Kunicki. I communicated briefly in...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/27/2004
Microsoft Office 2003 and Research Services Development Extras
Very shortly, we will publish the Research Services Development Extras (RSDE) on our MSDN Office...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/27/2004
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and .NET Web Services
So, Chase went with .NET to retool is huge commerical card platform called PaymentNet (see the story...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/23/2004
Office Development and the PIAs
One of the things that many developers are doing with Office is writing managed code applications....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/23/2004
Reflector and Reflector Add-ins: I salute you
I wrote a little utility about 1.5 years ago called ScreenRes. Basically, I wanted a tool to adjust...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/19/2004
FrontPage 2003 and WSS- the essential combo
I caught this response by WSS deity Mike Walsh (see the microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/17/2004
Smart Documents and Importing Certificate Files
A recent question came through on an email thread I was on, and I thought it should get a little...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/16/2004
BCC, please appear
First things first: Why am I posting so much today? Well, after my vacation to Tonga, I was buried...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/16/2004
Me gusta leer los MSDN articulos en espanol tambien
A few posts ago, I mentioned how MSDN has some localized content on the Spanish site (see this...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/16/2004
InfoPath, InfoPath, more InfoPath
We just published more(!) content for InfoPath. It just keeps coming, mainly because the interest is...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/13/2004
Office Developer Center: Soy el Site Manager, y yo apruebo este mensaje
The Spanish MSDN site geared toward Office development is live. This is a great place to go for...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/11/2004
Making my own movies with Movie Maker 2
I spent a good share of my Saturday taking the movies of our Tonga vacation from my Canon zr-40 into...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/09/2004
Microsoft Office and the Welsh language
I stumbled on this little nugget about our responding to the demand for the Welsh language in...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/06/2004
XSL-FO and WordML
I am not sure how I missed this, but CambridgeDocs, makers of a product for aggregating content and...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/03/2004
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!
One of the things that has been missing in the IM story for enterprise customers is that ability to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/15/2004
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Beta page on the Office Developer Center
The word has been out for a few days about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 beta, but the...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/14/2004
Office 2003 book as digital download
Wiley published an exhaustive reference book for Office 2003 users late last year, but I just found...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/13/2004
I'm back from Tonga, and I'm bloggin' about Web Parts
OK gang, I struggled with leaving paradise. Tonga is the most beautiful place on earth. The people...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/12/2004
Microsoft Office and the Kingdom of Tonga
Well, in a few hours I will be on a plane with my wife and four boys heading for the tiny Kingdom of...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/28/2004