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Temporary Release of Outlook Plugin code
23 August 05 01:00 PM | madsn | 5 comment(s)

This summer I got the opportunity to demo a VSTO Outlook plugin at TechEd in Amsterdam. The demo was done on a prototype made as a proof-of-concept for a customer in the preceeding weeks (not actually the night before the demo:-). The prototype was accepted...

Filed under: .NET General, Office System, TechEd2005

Oracle watches SQL Server Migration Assistant like hawkes
07 July 05 07:22 PM | madsn | 13 comment(s)

I am currently attending a session on the SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle. Basically a tool to get your database from Oracle to the Microsoft platform. We've got a guy from Oracle in the audience:

Filed under: TechEd2005

VSTO Demo at TechEd
07 July 05 05:06 PM | madsn | 8 comment(s)

Today I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to do a demo in Mike Fitzmaurices session on Sharepoint/Exchange integration and, later on, at Andrew Whitechapel s session on VSTO. The demo was on the the Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Outlook Add...

Filed under: Office System, TechEd2005

TechEd '05 Commenced - where are the v-celebs?
05 July 05 08:34 AM | madsn | with no comments

Well, it's 0817 and I'm already registered at Teched and hooked up to the wlan. This rare occasion of early-birdness was not by my free will, but more an upside of the construction-guys powering up the jackhammer outside my hotel window at 0700hrs (anything...

Filed under: TechEd2005

Smart Documents - The Death of Office Document Properties?
06 July 04 06:04 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

I attended Mark Bowers' session at TechEd on building Smart Documents. He introduced a tool from Vertigo software that simplifies the programming model for smart documents. The session left me with a couple of issues: How does a smart document align with...

Filed under: Office System, TechEd2005

Generate WSS Sitetree structures? MS Expert says no at TechEd..
30 June 04 05:53 PM | madsn | 3 comment(s)

Well, actually not NO but: I was just over at the "Ask the Experts" stand talking to the Sharepoint guys from Microsoft Netherlands. I was describing a scenario where I was planning to generate a WSS site tree structures based on MS CRM Account, Opportunity...

Filed under: Office System, TechEd2005

A crowded unit testing BoF
30 June 04 12:02 PM | madsn | 2 comment(s)

This mornings BoF lead by James Newkirk was truly crowded and goes to prove that .NET developers are taking testing seriously. Considering the level of participation in the discussions there might actually have been too many participants as there were...

Filed under: Architecture, Patterns & Practices, Continous Integration, TechEd2005

Sharepoint Portal Architecture and autogenerating WSS site forests
28 June 04 12:45 PM | madsn | with no comments

I've been checking out the Sharepoint content on this years teched, and some of the hands-on labs might be somewhat interesting. My major interest regarding sharepoint these days, however, is how to design the Portal architecture. How do you efficiently...

Filed under: Office System, TechEd2005

Booting @ Teched - PRE001 Biztalk
28 June 04 12:22 PM | madsn | with no comments

Settled on the premises and online with just a minor hassle I'm well into the pre-conf session on BizTalk: PRE001 Building an End-to-End Integration Infrastructure with BizTalk Server 2004 Eric Van Bever walks through BizTalk functionality talking demonstrating...

Filed under: TechEd2005

Took me 3 hours to get the agenda right..
17 June 04 12:42 AM | madsn | 2 comment(s)

Took me just about the entire evening browsing through all the sessions on the event site. I do feel that the search "tool" for the sessions could have been better. Simply a shopping cart-ish thing would have helped, or maybe a couple of collapse buttons...

Filed under: TechEd2005