OPML: 70 Office Development Bloggers and Counting!
It all started with a few bloggers a little before Beta 2. People started blogging about the Ribbon, the cool ASP.NET 2.0 platform and WSS 3.0, Excel Services, the Office Open XML File Formats and InfoPath Forms Services. Lots of great features to build solutions using Office as a platform!
Office development blogs are quite active and inviting for developers trying to learn what's new with the Microsoft Office system and diving more into specific products and technologies. When all this started, I added RSS feeds every week to Outlook until it became just a joke to have so many bloggers added to my RSS feed. There's hundreds if not thousands of people blogging about Office development and every day new blogs are born. I built a new list of Office development bloggers and a few days before launch, my list adds up to 70!
Blog Name |
RSSFeed |
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.NET4Office |
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[XaMaLa] - Le poste de travail, un gisement de productivité encore peu exploité |
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A discussion of what's new in Access 2007 |
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About OneNote |
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Andrew May's WebLog |
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Andy Simonds Blog |
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Arpan Shah's Blog |
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ArtLeo's WebLog |
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Bill Morein's Weblog |
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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats |
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Building Office Business Applications |
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Chris Castillo's WebLog |
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Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog |
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Chris's unofficial Office Live developer blog |
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Clint's Access blog |
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Coding for Office Small Business Accounting |
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Cum Grano Salis |
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doncampbell's weblog |
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Doug Mahugh |
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Erika Ehrli |
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Evil Doctor PorkChop |
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Fabulous Adventures In Coding |
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frice's WebLog |
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InfoPath Team Blog |
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Jan Tielens' Bloggings |
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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog |
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Joe Friend: Microsoft Office Word |
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John R. Durant's WebLog |
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Julie's Blog |
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Kevin Boske - Office Development |
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Larry's Project Dev Blog |
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LauraJ's Weblog |
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Microsoft Excel 2007 (nee Excel 12) |
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint |
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Microsoft Office Project 2007 |
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog |
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Microsoft Small Business Applications |
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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System |
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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2003 |
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MikeKelly's WebLog |
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Misha Shneerson |
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Murray Sargent: Math in Office |
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Office Rocker! |
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Office SharePoint Document Services (ECM) |
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On Microsoft Publisher and more |
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Outlook 12 |
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Owen Braun: OneNote 12 |
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Pashman's InfoPath Goldmine |
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Patrick Smith: Office Programmability |
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Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint] |
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Project Programmability |
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Project Server 201 |
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projectified |
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Rob Mauceri's FrontPage Blog |
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Ryan's Look at Outlook Programmability |
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search.subscribe.share in outlook 2007 |
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SGriffin's [MSFT] WebLog |
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SharePoint Content and Resources |
https://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/rss.xml |
SharePoint Products and Technologies - Pointing to Share the Knowledge |
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SharePoint Unplugged |
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Tasks and Time Management in Outlook |
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The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog |
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The wonder that is the Microsoft Office system |
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Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective |
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Visio 12 - Eric Rockey |
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Westin's Technical Log |
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Windows Sharepoint Services etc. |
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Wouter van Vugt |
When I started posting lists of bloggers someone suggested that I should build an OPML list of Office Development Bloggers, so I did. You can download the OPML file here:
You can use Outlook, Windows Live or other OPML readers to open this file and add your favorite RSS feeds.
MSDN blogs: pending to add!
How could I leave them out: Kathleen McGrath, Paul Stubbs, and the new Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog
Pranav's blog: You should check this one out, I hate me for not finding Pranav's blog before: This blog is all about Office Automation, VSTO, InfoPath and other programming stuff and the thing i believe on is "Real Stuff is Out Of The Box."
New blogs:
Make sure you check out Rob Barker's: Where in the "OBA" am I? and his first post.
I am sure there's more blogs out there that I didn't list here. If you have an Office development blog or know of great bloggers that talk about VSTO, SharePoint, WSS or anything else related with Office, please let me know so we add them to the list. You don't need to have an MSDN or TechNet blog, you only need to be passionate about development with Office products and technologies. The list keeps growing every day.
Community blogs: pending to add!
Blog name: All About SharePoint - https://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa
Portuguese Community of MOSS and WSS - https://mosspt.officeisp.net
Portal Integration: https://blogs.infosupport.com/porint
Adding Visio Guy: https://visguy.com/
Comments
Anonymous
January 25, 2007
Hello Erika, Great list you compiled. Have you considered offering your readers a live version of your OPML? You could use Grazr http://www.grazr.com or any other OPML browser for this. There are other cool things you could do, for example making your OPML file auto-discoverable, so that people who are on the look-out for OPML files can easily grab and browse your OPML right off your site. I've written a bit about this here: http://www.cleverclogs.org/2006/10/opml_autodiscov.htmlAnonymous
January 26, 2007
Hi Erika, I can give you two more technical blogs on MOSS: my own TechTalkPT - http://techtalkpt.worpress.com and the Portuguese Comunity of MOSS and WSS - http://mosspt.officeisp.net in both these blogs there are a lot of links to other bloggers, some that you already have. Thanks for the usefull info you post, Ricardo MagalhãesAnonymous
January 26, 2007
Marjolein, Loved your blog and the work you are doing with OPML and RSS feeds. I'll explore your tools. Ricardo, Loved your blog too, how come I have not seen it before! I'll add it to the list.Anonymous
January 27, 2007
Polish Community of MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 - http://www.officesystem2007.plAnonymous
January 28, 2007
Wow - check out this list of 70+ Office development bloggers: http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2007/01/24/70-office-development-bloggers-and-counting.aspAnonymous
January 28, 2007
Erika Ehrli blogs on "Adventures in Office Development and .NET". She shows a great entry on the 70 OfficeAnonymous
January 29, 2007
Just a small correction: http://techtalkpt.wordpress.com the previous address was missing the letter d in the word Wordpress :)Anonymous
January 30, 2007
Oops! Fixed.Anonymous
January 31, 2007
Hey this is very useful - thanks for putting this together Erika! -DonAnonymous
February 04, 2007
What is your name? Where do you live?Anonymous
April 24, 2007
Microsoft Blogs Microsoft Blog Directory (Todd Bishop, SeatlePI) Microsoft Office Blogs (Erika Ehrli)Anonymous
September 24, 2007
RSS feeds changed the strategy that lots of people use to learn about new things. As developers we areAnonymous
January 15, 2008
Hi Erika, your blogs are really helpful for me. i learnt lot thing from ur blog. i have been working on office automation and MOSS for last 2 year when beta version was launched. i have good exp in smart document , smart outlook , smart visio and as well as infopath. currently i m building statemachine work flow. again thanks for ur blog. regards Niranjan MCTS ( Microsoft office share point server 2007)Anonymous
August 28, 2008
Blogs Microsoft Windows Vista Blog Windows Vista Community Blogs Windows Vista Security Windows Ultimate The Windows Experience Microsoft Blog Directory (Todd Bishop, SeatlePI) Microsoft Office Blogs (Erika Ehrli) Siti Web Microsoft Internet ExplorerAnonymous
March 18, 2009
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