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Silverlight Web Part in SharePoint
Having looked at Silverlight in Office client, I thought I’d round out the exercise by looking at Silverlight in Office server. It turns out that lots of people have looked at this before, and I relied...
View ArticleCarter-Lippert VSTO Book Updated
The eagerly-awaited update to Eric Carter and Eric Lippert’s VSTO book has been released this week. This is the definitive guide to Visual Studio Tools for Office, and this edition targets development...
View ArticleMEF
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library, still under development, that provides support for composing applications dynamically. Many applications have a composite model, where the...
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In my last post, I looked briefly at MEF, and I’m wondering how this model can be applied to Office add-ins. The Office add-in model itself already achieves a level of dynamic composition, by virtue of...
View ArticleExcel Services Setup and Getting Started
As part of an internal prototype I was working on recently, I had to set up a machine for Excel Services – and do this repeatedly as my prototype messed up the installation in various ways. I found...
View ArticleExcel Services Getting Started – Pt2 UDFs
This continues my previous checklist on getting started with Excel Services. Here, I’ll append a walkthrough for creating, deploying and updating User-Defined Function assemblies with Excel Services....
View ArticleExcel Services Getting Started – Pt3 EWA
This continues my previous checklists here and here on getting started with Excel Services. In this post, I’ll append a walkthrough for using Excel Web Access. 5. Using Excel Web Access 5.1...
View ArticleExcel Services Getting Started – Pt4 Web Service APIs
This continues my previous checklists here, here and here on getting started with Excel Services. In this post, I’ll append a walkthrough for using the Excel Web Services APIs. 6. Using Excel Web...
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HLSL in Office
HLSL is the High Level Shading Language for DirectX, documented here. I was wondering the other day how you might use shaders in Office, and this led me to build a little proof-of-concept that allows...
View ArticleTime to Jump Ship
I’ve been working in the Office Development space for over 10 years now, and I finally decided it’s time for a change. So, I’m leaving my current team and heading over to a new job in Xbox. I expect...
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