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OPML: 70 Office Development Bloggers and Counting!

  • Artigo

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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https://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/rss.aspx

.NET4Office

https://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/rss.aspx

[XaMaLa] - Le poste de travail, un gisement de productivité encore peu exploité

https://blogs.microsoft.fr/franckha/Rss.aspx

A discussion of what's new in Access 2007

https://blogs.msdn.com/access/rss.aspx

About OneNote

https://blogs.msdn.com/olya_veselova/rss.xml

Andrew May's WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may/rss.aspx

Andy Simonds Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/andy_simonds/rss.aspx

Arpan Shah's Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/rss.aspx

ArtLeo's WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/artleo/rss.aspx

Bill Morein's Weblog

https://blogs.msdn.com/wmorein/rss.aspx

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats

https://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/rss.aspx

Building Office Business Applications

https://blogs.msdn.com/joanna_bichsel/rss.xml

Chris Castillo's WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/chcast/rss.aspx

Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/rss.aspx

Chris's unofficial Office Live developer blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/cbeiter/rss.aspx

Clint's Access blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/clintcovington/rss.aspx

Coding for Office Small Business Accounting

https://blogs.msdn.com/martha/rss.xml

Cum Grano Salis

https://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/rss.aspx

doncampbell's weblog

https://blogs.msdn.com/doncampbell/rss.xml

Doug Mahugh

https://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/rss.xml

Erika Ehrli

https://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/rss.aspx

Evil Doctor PorkChop

https://evildoctorporkchop.spaces.live.com/feed.rss

Fabulous Adventures In Coding

https://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/rss.aspx

frice's WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/frice/rss.aspx

InfoPath Team Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/rss.aspx

Jan Tielens' Bloggings

https://weblogs.asp.net/jan/rss.aspx

Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/rss.aspx

Joe Friend: Microsoft Office Word

https://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/rss.aspx

John R. Durant's WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant/rss.aspx

Julie's Blog

https://blogs.officezealot.com/jkremer/Rss.aspx

Kevin Boske - Office Development

https://blogs.msdn.com/kevinboske/rss.aspx

Larry's Project Dev Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/lduff/rss.aspx

LauraJ's Weblog

https://blogs.msdn.com/lauraj/rss.xml

Microsoft Excel 2007 (nee Excel 12)

https://blogs.msdn.com/excel/rss.aspx

Microsoft Office PowerPoint

https://blogs.msdn.com/brendanb/rss.aspx

Microsoft Office Project 2007

https://blogs.msdn.com/project/rss.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/rss.aspx

Microsoft Small Business Applications

https://blogs.msdn.com/rajattaneja/rss.aspx

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

https://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/rss.aspx

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2003

https://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/rss.aspx

MikeKelly's WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/mikekelly/rss.aspx

Misha Shneerson

https://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/rss.aspx

Murray Sargent: Math in Office

https://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/rss.xml

Office Rocker!

https://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/rss.xml

Office SharePoint Document Services (ECM)

https://blogs.msdn.com/roble/rss.aspx

On Microsoft Publisher and more

https://blogs.msdn.com/jeff_bell/rss.aspx

Outlook 12

https://blogs.msdn.com/willkennedy/rss.aspx

Owen Braun: OneNote 12

https://blogs.msdn.com/owen_braun/rss.aspx

Pashman's InfoPath Goldmine

https://blogs.msdn.com/timpash/rss.aspx

Patrick Smith: Office Programmability

https://blogs.msdn.com/patricksmith/rss.aspx

Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]

https://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/Rss.aspx

Project Programmability

https://blogs.msdn.com/project_programmability/rss.xml

Project Server 201

https://www.projectserver201.blogspot.com/atom.xml

projectified

https://www.projectified.com/index.rdf

Rob Mauceri's FrontPage Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/rmauceri/rss.aspx

Ryan's Look at Outlook Programmability

https://blogs.msdn.com/rgregg/rss.aspx

search.subscribe.share in outlook 2007

https://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/rss.aspx

SGriffin's [MSFT] WebLog

https://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/rss.aspx

SharePoint Content and Resources

https://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/rss.xml

SharePoint Products and Technologies - Pointing to Share the Knowledge

https://www.sharepointblogs.com/ldusolier/rss.aspx

SharePoint Unplugged

https://blogs.msdn.com/harsh/rss.aspx

Tasks and Time Management in Outlook

https://blogs.msdn.com/melissamacbeth/rss.aspx

The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/rss.xml

The wonder that is the Microsoft Office system

https://blogs.technet.com/stevemarsh/rss.xml

Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective

https://blogs.msdn.com/thirdoffive/rss.aspx

Visio 12 - Eric Rockey

https://blogs.msdn.com/eric_rockey/rss.aspx

Westin's Technical Log

https://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/rss.aspx

Windows Sharepoint Services etc.

https://blogs.msdn.com/pjhough/rss.aspx

Wouter van Vugt

https://blogs.infosupport.com/wouterv/rss.aspx

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:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F2C2C7E9-5ABB-401B-AD32-FED03295B61D&displaylang=en

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!

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.html

  • Anonymous
    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 Magalhães

  • Anonymous
    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.pl

  • Anonymous
    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.asp

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2007
    Erika Ehrli blogs on "Adventures in Office Development and .NET". She shows a great entry on the 70 Office

  • Anonymous
    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! -Don

  • Anonymous
    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 are

  • Anonymous
    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 Explorer

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    I’ve been experimenting with Twitter for the last couple of months and I am quite addicted to it now.