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Updated WCF RSS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
Now that I'm happily living in the exciting, fast paced world of Greater London you'd think my weekends would be spent enjoying the active nightlife or soaking in the culture and history all around me. But you'd be wrong. I'm a nerd and so I spent my...
Visual Studio 2008 is Out and Startup Is FAST
Okay, so I have to admit that in the two days I've had Visual Studio 2008 installed on my desktop system I haven't had a chance to look at everything. However, when I was at Tech-Ed Barcelona I saw several demos where the speaker started Visual Studio...
Tech-Ed (Developer) Barcelona Bound
An observant reader looking at my blog directly and not in their favorite feed reader may have noticed that several months ago the image at the top changed from the skyline of Chicago to that of London. That's because in July my wife and I threw all expectations...
CKS:Internet/Extranet Edition - SharePoint 2007 Forms Based Authentication Solution Released
I'm very happy to announce that our first pre-Beta release of the SharePoint Forms Based Authentication features that the Community Kit for SharePoint Internet/Extranet edition has been working on is available for download on CodePlex . This solution...
SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Parts Update
I've been very pleasantly surprised with the number of people downloading the forms based authentication web parts I created. I hope you find the code valuable. I've also received via the comments section several questions about implementing one or more...
Off to Tech-Ed '07
Going to Tech-Ed '07? I'll be there. You can find me in the Technical Learning Center (Blue Section) Monday through Thursday showing off Smart Client development in Visual Studio 2005 and "Orcas". Stop by and say Hello!
Posted: Jun 01 2007, 03:00 PM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Custom Task Panes
My avid readers (both of you) know that I've done quite a bit of work around Outlook 2007 Form Regions in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. If you missed those posts, you can read more about them here and here . Form Regions are a great way to add...
Posted: May 23 2007, 08:50 AM by PaulBallard | with 9 comment(s)
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MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office from the Experts Series
Yesterday I had the honor of joining such names as Ken Getz, Tim Huckaby, and Robert Green by recording a webcast for MSDN in the VSTO Straight from the Experts Series. In this webcast I demoed the FormRegionAddin templates I created for Visual Studio...
Posted: May 16 2007, 10:05 AM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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VSTO "Orcas" Ribbon Designer
Kathleen McGrath has a great blog post about her favorite feature in the upcoming "Orcas" release of VSTO, the new Ribbon Designer. The Ribbon Designer lets you extend the Office 2007 Ribbon interface with your own controls. She even includes...
Posted: May 09 2007, 11:00 AM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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.NET Humor
In my prevous life as Editor for TheServerSide.NET, one of my favorite duties was to come up with ideas for .NET humor. This took the form of several cartoons, "Top 10" lists, and one April Fool's news post that got MASSIVE linkage. Unfortunately...
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