John R. Durant's WebLog
Blog of "The" Office Developer
XSL Transforms and WordML
I was recently reviewing some tech comments from the product team for an article we wanted to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/10/2004
Diving into DirectX...the shallow end of the pool
I have been spending a little time trying to figure out how to mess around with some audio settings...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/06/2004
Super New Office-related dev content
My team just pushed some great stuff. Bill Coan (way cool Word guy) wrote this gem for us: Getting...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/05/2004
New info on Web Queries
There is a new MSDN article (as of a few minutes ago) on Web queries in Excel: Different Ways of...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/03/2004
Microsoft Publisher Blog!
In case it slipped under the radar, Andrew May, programmability writer for Publisher and PowerPoint,...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/03/2004
One take on OneNote
OfficeZealot kingpin (and fellow Minnesotan!) Chris Kunicki has posted some insightful commentary on...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/03/2004
AgingProperties
OK- everyone reading my blog knows that I love NewsGator. (Hey- NG dudes: why aren’t you...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/03/2004
New doc on doc properties
We just published a new article “Reading and Writing Custom Document Properties in Microsoft...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/30/2004
Taming Outlook
Chris Kunicki’s recent blog entry (https://blogs.officezealot.com/MT/mt-tb.cgi/159) on taming...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/30/2004
.NET GroupBox controls and the reverse ordering of numbers
So, I found this interesting thing happening in the way .NET orders controls to a collection. I am...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/29/2004
What do you want?
I was sitting here planning the Web site (https://msdn.microsoft.com/office) getting things in place,...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/29/2004
Get going with Smart Documents
If you are looking for tutorials on how to get going with smart documents, I recommend the following...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/26/2004
Spotlight on InfoPath
Our main dev center page just (moments ago) went live with a new spotlight on InfoPath. Lots of...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/23/2004
Tablet PC and Office
OK- so I just got out of this meeting, wherein we were discussing some up-coming content for the...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/23/2004
Newsgator is growing on me fast
One of the features that is outrageously good is that you can right-click on a link for an RSS feed...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/23/2004
newsgator adds value in more ways than one.
I just installed newsgator, and I am not sure if I can adore it as others seem to have. I’ll...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/23/2004
Beatles-Let it be...
Yesterday, my new Beatles CD arrived from www.bn.com, and it is the new unadorned version of the Let...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/21/2004
Office and a short, bald man
I figured I would get the truth about my demographic out there right from the start. Actually, this...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/21/2004