Just home from the TechEd 2008 Welcome party. It was great to catch up with a few friends. Here’s a couple of piccys. First up, the Breeze gang in the RFID boiler room. Scott Scovell (Breeze), Rahul Garg (Microsoft) and Mick Badran (Breeze). Scott and Mick are the guys making all the RFID palava happen. Here they are looking cool, calm, well rested and non-stressed. Pictured here are Mitch...
I consider myself an average presenter. Not terrible, but not great. I’m working on being a great presenter. To this end, as well as working on what I should be doing, I’ve also been spending time analysing what should be avoided. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be sharing a few tips on what not to do. Most of course are things I’ve been doing for years, and only recently woken up...
Deploying a Word document level VSTO add-in via SharePoint Actually, more correctly, we are going to deploy via ClickOnce but deliver via SharePoint. This the second demo on VSTO deployment, and follows on from my previous post about VSTO deployment via ClickOnce. It covers building a very simple Word document level add-in, deploying to a network share, uploading this to SharePoint, and then...
Deploying an Excel application level VSTO add-in via ClickOnce If you are new to VSTO deployment then this simple little screencast (just under 14 mins) may help. It covers the scenario of deploying an application level add-in via ClickOnce to a network share, and then the experience a user would have installing it. TechEd 2008 – Session DEV320: Deploying VSTO v3 Applications This is one of the...
This Wednesday at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) is looking really good with two presentations on improving business processes. The first uses an Atlassian product, the second uses Microsoft. When: This Wed 27 August 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) More details: www...
By now I’m assuming most of you have downloaded and installed Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008. For those who haven’t here’s a few links you may want to note: Before installation If you’ve installed any hot fixes over the last few months you should clean them up first Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool (14 MB) (note: this replaces the original Hotfix Cleanup utility for...
Warning: personal ramblings about my health and fitness (or lack thereof) ahead – nothing technical here. Back at the gym I went back to the gym again yesterday after a month off (not by choice mind you, but due to being really sick for 2 weeks, and then visiting the hospital most nights for the last few weeks looking in on Michele’s father). The gym confirmed what my clothes suggested...
After chatting with a few people about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) recently, it’s clear that the technology is not that well understood (even though, in my opinion, Microsoft have done a pretty good job of articulating it – much better than say OBA for example). So in this post I’m aiming to give a high level overview of VSTO and clear up some misconceptions. As usual this is...
This Wednesday at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) is looking really good with five demos scheduled. Yes, five! And I think we can still squeeze in one more if there’s anyone still undecided… When: This Wed 30 July 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) More details: www...
Following on from my overview of Office Business Applications, here’s a quick list of resources if you are interested in learning more. In general I feel that Microsoft has done a poor job of projecting a clear, consistent message about OBA. The result is a mess of various interlinking sites that offer only surface-level answers. Getting to the heart of the OBA vision is a difficult task. That...