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Blog-enable your Office application, Gwen Stefani & the African Dung Beetle

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As the many readers of my blog know, I'm all about blogs (thanks to Scoble and Chris Kunicki for getting me started with my blog two years ago). Blog-enabling Office applications is a no-brainer in a lot of situations. But, it has not always been easy...until now.

The Visual Basic team here at Microsoft created My.Blogs, a collection of sample code that  let's you more easily put programmatic blog access in your apps, and I think VSTO 2005 apps is the place to start. Here's where you can learn more:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/MyBlogsGetStart.asp

Rock Thought for the Day: How has Gwen Stefani made it this far? It's more mysterious to me than the hygenic rituals of the African Dung Beetle. I enjoy No Doubt's songs, for the first two measures. Then, her voice begins to abrade my nerves like sadistic teacher dragging a carbide-tipped gauntlet across an amplified chalkboard. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt: she's a nice person. She's obviously dedicated and smart. I could probably listen to her talk with no need for Vicodin. But, I'll be glad when she does her farewell tour to take up writing children's books.

Rock On

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2005
    John,

    While not a big fan of female vocalists (except for Eurythmics), I think Gwen has a fantastic voice. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree there.

    But re: blogging within MS apps, I thought I'd mention Steen Molberg's web part for SharePoint (http://www.molberg.dk/blogs/steen/default.aspx). I threw it up on our intranet (which is built on top of SharePoint) and it has been working nicely.