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Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:25 PM

Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will provide native support for ODF and PDF document format standards

Yet another round goes to Microsoft on the office interop field...... well done guys, you continue to make us (who support you in this) proud. This pretty much sums it up: Also check out a very useful (about to be slightly adjusted) Comparison of office suites from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites ) Original post from Lawrence ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-office-2007-sp2-to-provide-native-support-for-odf-and-pdf-document-format...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:25 PM

Building OBAs with WPF, WCF, and LINQ

One thing is for sure, using Visual Studio Tools for Office in the new Visual Studio 2008 environment has become much easier and a lot more effective. We have a number of frameworks that not only make our lives as developers easier but it also allows us to create even more powerful solutions. Besides the mighty Enterprise Content Management platform MOSS 2007, simple Office applications like MS Word can utilise Business Process Management, SOA and Enterprise Service Bus concepts, even employ more...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:33 AM

6 Microsoft® Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint® Server 2007

I waited for this book to come out for some time, and as soon as I found out its out (from Eben last Wednesday) I ordered it through Amazon, I used the standard shipping options, so that means this will most likely be my present for Valentines (from me to me). Anyway, back to the book itself, this book presents my main professional focus (what you mostly hear about in my lectures and presentations) and what I believe to be the future of all enterprise applications. This is how OBAs and SharePoint...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:07 AM

Things to look forward to in 2008

So I’m back from my long slumber, it feels like I haven’t been blogging forever yet it’s been only just over 2 weeks. I’ve had first of many wonderful Christmases with my beautiful little daughter. 2008 just began and there are so many things to look forward to this year, and some of those things are: (Re) Forming of the Information Worker Community ( www.informationworker.co.za ) Microsoft and the Community has been working really hard on this one , first by forming the Partner Board and now by...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:13 AM

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2008...My gift is some great SharePoint articles to read over the holidays

First of all Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog and happy upcoming New 2008 from me and my family!! (.... I mean my family and me) This blog post is just a selection of awesome recent blog posts from some cool people that will be nice to read if you want to get away for couple of minutes and have some peace during this busy festive season. Posts from Michael Gannotti ( http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/ ) Video: Building a Simple "Workflow" Application Without Using...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:08 PM

Virtual TechEd 2007

You have got to check this dude out at Virtual TechEd ( http://www.virtualteched.com/ ). Talking about"Developing OBA/SharePoint 2007 Solutions in South Africa" at the video section ( http://www.virtualteched.com/pages/videos.aspx ). He's classic!! Also, if he was entertaining enough for you, you can even rate him. Here's more info: var player = new createMySilverlightControl1002(); Developing OBA/SharePoint 2007 Solutions in South Africa What role does SharePoint 2007 play in Office...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:30 PM

Structured content authoring using the 2007 Microsoft Office System and XML

One of the lectures I gave at TechEd 2007 - Africa was: Structured content authoring using the 2007 Microsoft Office System and XML. Here where you can download the presentation and the source code used in the session: Presentation ( http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/OFC303_-_Structured_Content_Authoring_-_Dzinic.zip ) Source code, snippets, database ( http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/structured%20content%20source.zip ) - Done in Visual Studio 2008 C#. OpenXML source code (using OpenXML SDK) ( http...
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Friday, October 19, 2007 3:59 PM

Developing OBA/SharePoint Solutions with .NET (part II) - October 2007 SADeveloper.NET Post Event Info

Another great session finished. Again, I would like to thank Microsoft and Business Connexion for sponsoring this event. Above all I would like to thank SADeveloper for organising this event and all the members for always going out of their way to bring events like this to you over and over again. Last but not least, I would like to thank my friend and colleague Warren Pieterse for co-presenting with me. If you weren't there this Wednesday, you missed out on a great session, but we promise to...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 12:45 AM

Windows Workflow Foundation Updates

Here's a list of some very useful updates for Windows Workflow Foundation that some of you might appreciate (I know I did): New, great SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 Workshop from MSDN Public Sector Development Blog, much like mine ( How to Create a SharePoint 2007 Workflow using Visual Studio 2008 Beta (Example) ) but with a bit more nice detail, like creating logs etc. Here's the download link ( http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/10/05/sharepoint-document...
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Friday, October 05, 2007 12:15 PM

Microsoft Releases PerformancePoint Server 2007!!!

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/Sep07/09-19OfficePerformancePointPR.mspx " REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 19, 2007 — As part of its commitment to providing industry-leading business intelligence solutions, Microsoft Corp. has launched Microsoft ® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007, an application that enables companies to drive performance through monitoring, analyzing and planning their business using one integrated solution. Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) allows more people at...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:31 AM

Excellent talk on OBA from Channel 9 - ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor

Eben sent me a link to these webcasts early last week and only recently I found time to take a look at them. If selling or architecting, creating and implementing OBAs is you cup of tea, then you must check this out: ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 1) ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications @ Epicor (Part 2) ARCast.TV - Office Business Apps @ Epicor (Part 3) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, September 24, 2007 11:46 AM

Main Competition to SharePoint Server 2007 - ECM Market Leaders

After one of my previous posts ( SharePoint 2007 Workflow (WWF) VS OpenText Livelink Workflow ), few people came back to me, asking me: What is Livelink? What is Livelink Workflow? Livelink ( http://www.opentext.com/ ) is one of the leading Enterprise Content Management offerings from OpenText. It’s permanently featuring in the fourth Gartner Quadrant ( http://www.gartner.com/ ) together with its two main competitors (also giants in the ECM industry) Documentum ( http://www.documentum.com/ owned...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:31 PM

SharePoint 2007 Workflow (WWF) VS OpenText Livelink Workflow

SharePoint 2007 Workflow (Visual Studio 2008) Livelink Workflow (Livelink Server 9.7) Workflow Platform Type Framework Engine Electronic Forms Support Yes (InfoPath) Yes (LL Forms Module) Interoperability with Desktop Applications Yes (Microsoft Office Suite Only) No Interoperability with Email Yes Yes Integration with Line of Business Applications Yes No (Actually maybe with some insanely complicated level of integration) Electronic Signatures Yes (WRMS, a bit complicated) Yes (eSign) Supports Attachments...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 2:00 PM

How to Create a SharePoint 2007 Workflow using Visual Studio 2008 Beta (Example)

A lot of people have complained that access to the Virtual Labs that I mentioned earlier in my blog is very slow and unstable. So this tutorial that I’m about to give you is based on the case in Microsoft Virtual Labs. I’ve also had a lot of requests of posting example code for creating workflows in VS2008 Beta (last one from Stephen Korow). You’re about the witness an evolution in building workflows for Microsoft, no need for command line deployment, specific configuration of workflow features,...
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Friday, August 31, 2007 10:13 PM

Latest Visual Studio 2008 VSTO Virtual Labs

Make sure you have killer bandwidth before you start going through these, they are all very very useful, and serve as an excellent introduction into Office System (VSTO) Development with new Betas of Visual Studio 2008. ISV Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft VSTO Part 1-Data Binding with Word Content Controls In Part 1 of this lab series, you will learn to create a structured Word template project using Visual Studio Tools for Office. You will also learn to lock the...
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