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Recent Blog Posts

Leveraging the Power of Word Automation Services and the Open XML SDK
Have you ever wanted to update page number fields or a table of contents within Word documents on th... more
Tuesday, Feb 9

What’s New for Developers in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?
The upcoming release of Office and SharePoint offers a wealth of interesting new scenarios and solut... more
Monday, Feb 8

MVP Michael Bauer Contributed a Code Example for a New Outlook 2010 Property
Michael Bauer* recently contributed a code example that shows a simple but common way to use the new... more
Saturday, Jan 30

Excel 2010 XML Maps
We introduced Excel XML Map objects in Excel 2003. We carried those forward into Excel 2007 and, of... more
Friday, Jan 29

New Office Developer Guild Logos
The ODG logos have been updated with the new Office 2010 brand logo. Also, by request, I have added... more
Thursday, Jan 28

Open XML SDK Code behind the Custom XML Markup Detection Tool
On Brian Jones' blog today, Zeyad Rajabi has posted the source code for the Custom XML Markup Detect... more
Wednesday, Jan 27

Content from the Office Community

Editing Data in an Excel 2007 Open XML File with VBA
Explore different ways to find particular XML data in an Excel 2007 file, retrieve the data, and then write it back to the file all by using Office Open XML. Author: Frank Rice; Jan Karel Pieterse (MVP)

Chapter 11: Advanced Data Access: External Data and More (Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007)
Build on your Figure experience with the Data View and Data Source Library to reach beyond Windows SharePoint Services and build truly heterogeneous applications and mashups. Author: Woodrow W. Windischman, Bryan Phillips, Asif Rehmani (Other)

Changing and Resetting the Caption Bar in Access 2007 (Visual How To)
Learn a simple way to retrieve, modify, and reset the text that is in the Access 2007 title bar. Author: Ken Getz (MVP)

Identity and Access Strategies for SharePoint Products and Technologies, Part 1: Membership and Provider Architecture
Explore the membership and role provider architecture and how it operates in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Author: Ethan Wilansky, Tomek Stojecki (MVP)

Uploading Files to SharePoint Server 2007 from ASP.NET Web Applications by Using the HTTP PUT Method (Visual How To)
Learn how to use the HTTP PUT method to programmatically upload files from an ASP.NET Web application to a SharePoint Server 2007 site. Author: Joel Krist (Other)

Channel 9 Videos

What's new in Office 2010?
In this session, we will introduce you to the new functionalities of Office 2010 and what functionalities makes working... more
Sunday, Jan 31

InfoPath 2010 - Customize a SharePoint List Form
In this short video, Daniel Broekman, a program manager on the InfoPath product team, will show how you can customize a... more
Tuesday, Dec 22

VSX203: Visual Studio Tools for Applications
In this session, we’ll explore Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA), which provides managed extensibili... more
Wednesday, Dec 9

Ping 40: Black screen claims- retracted, Windows 7, Bing Maps, Office 2010
Paul came back this week and he shared his stories from China and possibly also his cold. But - it was worth it to hear... more
Monday, Dec 7

MSDN Briefing November: Office Client Development
Office Client Development - Präsentation rund um Automatisierung von Word, Open XML, Word uvm. Siehe zugehörigen Blog Be... more
Monday, Nov 30

Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010
One of the new features we're announcing today at PDC is the Outlook Social Connector SDK. This is a new way to integrat... more
Thursday, Nov 19

PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features
John Durant just returned from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference where a number of new SharePoint features were announ... more
Wednesday, Nov 18

Code Gallery Samples

Customizing the Office 2010 Backstage View for Developers
This download sample contains the code for the article titled Customizing the Office 2010 Backstage View for Developers (http://msdn.microsoft.c... more
Monday, Feb 8

Office Development in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate samples demonstrate Office 2010 development projects, tools, and techniques by using the .NET Framework 3.5 and the .NET Fr... more
Wednesday, May 20

Northwind Office Business Application
These samples demonstrate a simple Office Business Application used by the new Northwind Traders that includes versions for both Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack... more
Saturday, Feb 7

CodePlex Projects

Outlook Attachment Reminder - For Office 2007 & Office 2010
Outlook Attachment Reminder enables all the Outlook 2007 users to never miss attaching an attachment when they promise to do so. It will go through the email an... more
Tuesday, Jan 20

Featured Library Content

Compatibility Between the 32-bit and 64-bit Versions of Office 2010
This article discusses issues around the compatibi... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Customizing Context Menus in Office 2010
Learn more about how to customize context menus an... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Deploying a Customized Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2010
Learn how to deploy a customized Microsoft Office... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Extending the User Interface in Outlook 2010
Learn how to customize the explorer and inspector... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Introduction to the Office 2010 Backstage View for Developers
Office 2010 (Beta) introduces the Microsoft Office... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Programming the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module
This article introduces the Solutions module, prov... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Ribbon Extensibility in Office 2010: Tab Activation and Auto-Scaling
Tab activation and auto-scaling are added to the e... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Shutdown Changes for Outlook 2010
As part of the goal to improve performance, Outloo... more
Thursday, Nov 12

What's New for Developers in Outlook 2010
This article examines, in depth, some of the new a... more
Thursday, Nov 12

Recent Downloads

Sample: Extending the User Interface in Outlook 2010
This add-in provides a visual element for every entry point in the Outlook 2010 UI that you can customize by using Offic... more

Sample: Programming the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module
The sample demonstrates how to turn on the Solutions module programmatically and customize the folder icons for the Solu... more

Excel 2010 Developer Reference
Download an updated version of the Excel 2010 developer reference for use with Office 2010 (Beta), as well as the Object... more

Access 2010 Developer Reference
Download an updated version of the Access 2010 developer reference for use with Office 2010 (Beta), as well as the Objec... more

InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference
Download an updated version of the InfoPath 2010 developer reference for use with Office 2010 (Beta).

Office 2010: Developer References
Download a combined download for all Office 2010 Developer Reference HxS builds, including Access, Excel, Office, Outloo... more

Office 2010 Reference: Office Fluent User Interface XML Schema
Download reference documentation for the Office 2010 XML schema as well as the Ribbon extensibility schema, customUI.xsd... more

Office 2010 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Download files that list the control IDs for built-in controls in all applications that use the Office Fluent user inter... more

Project 2010 Developer Reference
Download an updated version of the Project 2010 developer reference for use with Office 2010 (Beta).

Recent Videos

Adding Images to Documents in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office (Visual How To)
Watch the video and explore sample code as you learn how to create Word 2007 documents that contain inline and floating... more

Building String References with Embedded Quotes in Access 2007 (Visual How To)
Watch the video and explore sample code as you learn a simple way to build a WHERE clause in code that contains embedded... more

Embedding Documents in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 (Visual How To)
Watch the video and explore sample code as you learn how to embed a Word 2007 document programmatically into another Wor... more

Generating Documents with Headers and Footers in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office (Visual How To)
Watch the video and explore sample code as you learn to programmatically create Word 2007 documents that contain headers... more

Choosing Output Devices at Runtime in Access 2007 (Visual How To)
Watch the video and download the sample code as you learn how to select an output device for a report at runtime in Acce... more

Creating a Master Detail View in Excel 2007 (Visual How To)
Watch the video and download the sample code as you learn to use structured references programmatically to implement a m... more