Outlook 2007 Reference: Business Contact Manager for Outlook Developer Guide

This download provides a CHM version of the Business Contact Manager for MS Outlook 2007 Developer Guide.

Using Sharepoint with MS Office

A free book chapter download from Techrepublic.com.

Topics covered:

• Opening and Saving Library Documents
• Using the Shared Workspace Task Pane
• Integrating with Outlook
• Creating and Using Lists in Excel
• Creating and Using Lists in Access
• Using SharePoint with InfoPath
• Working with Pictures inPicture Manager
• Supporting Project Web Access

All MS Sharepoint Templates Now Available in a Single Download

Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: All Templates This MS download contains all downloadable application templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

The New Office 2007 GUI

New articles and a download from Microsoft:

Customize the Office 2007 Ribbon User Interface for Developer Part 1
Customizing the Office (2007) Ribbon User Interface for Developers Part 2
Learn about the scenarios and XML mark-up that you can use to customize the Ribbon user interface (UI) in the 2007 Microsoft Office release. The Ribbon UI replaces menus, toolbars, and most of the task pane UI in the 2007 release.

Download the Developer Overview of the User Interface for the 2007 Microsoft Office System An overview of the user interface (UI) system for the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office applications and the goals behind the redesign of the UI. Learn about the impact of the redesigned UI on custom solutions and add-ins, and about opportunities to use or extend elements of the new UI in custom solutions (22 printed pages)

August Security Updates for MS Office

Quite a number of updates this month, including one for the Access 2000 Runtime install:

Visual Basic for Applications Update Installer (KB923167)
Security Update for Office XP (KB920821)
Security Update for Project 2000 (KB920822)
Security Update for Office 2000 (KB920822)
Security Update for Office XP (KB921567)
Security Update for Office 2000 (KB921568)
Security Update for Access 2000 Runtime (KB920822)
Security Update for Project 2002 (KB920821)
Security Update for Visio 2002 (KB920821)

MSDN Library Now Available for Free Download

The MSDN Library May 2006 an essential resource of information for developers using Microsoft tools, products, and technologies is now available for free download.

The download is available as three separate ISO image files totaling 2gb. Unfortunately you can't pick and choose content and there is no TOC for each ISO, though on the download page you are told to download the files most appropriate for you... There are other inconsistencies on the page, and MS really needs to review the text, and consider custom download options based on content.

Even More Office 2007 Developer Videos

2007 Office System Video: Windows SharePoint Services Platform How Windows SharePoint Services provides the unified server foundation for many of the 2007 Microsoft Office system server capabilities
2007 Office System Video: Portals Customizing search capabilities, building custom portal interfaces, providing personalized views, and aggregating connections to line-of-business data.

Microsoft Webcasts Links

• ALL Upcoming Webcasts
• ALL On-Demand Webcasts
• Microsoft Business Solutions Webcasts
• Microsoft Executive Circle Webcasts
• Microsoft Office System Webcasts
• Microsoft Small Business Webcasts
• MSDN Webcasts
• Architecture Webcasts
• Security Webcasts
• TechNet Webcasts

SQL Server 2005: How Microsoft IT Does It

Improving Data Security by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services in a Scalable Business Intelligence Solution

Office 2007 Ribbon To Be "Tweaked"

Source Gregg Keizer, TechWeb July 26 2006

Microsoft has announced that the Technical Refresh of the current Beta 2 of Office 2007 will make changes to the operation of the RibbonBar. See my post of July 2 on my take on the Access 2007 RibbonBar.

This is news to me: you can use Ctrl-F1 to collapse the RibbonBar since the first beta to provide more viewing and working space for documents. Microsoft Office 2007 GUI program manger Jensen Harris has outlined changes on how the RibbonBar will be invoked in future builds. In the latest builds, you can right-click anywhere in the Ribbon to bring up a context menu which includes an option to minimize the Ribbon. This is in addition to Ctrl+F1 and double-clicking the selected tab. Jensen has also posted a short video showing the new feature in action. The Menu Tabs also activates a tab as a pop-up in a minimized Ribbon with a left-click. When users finish with the tab pop-up or click away from it, it disappears, and returns the interface to a ribbon-minimized state. The new feature can be seen in another video clip posted to Jensen's blog.

But from what I can gather all this does is return some screen real estate to the GUI, and still does not allow Access developers to implement a classic menubar/toolbar navigation paradigm.

More Office 2007 Developer Videos

2007 Office System Video: Solutions and Partners Industry experts demonstrate how to integrate Office clients, servers, services, and tools to build real world solutions.

2007 Office System Video: Enterprise Content Management View conference breakout sessions about the new, extensible content management features.

Office 2007 Developer Videos

Download this series of Office 2007 developer-oriented videos:

Collaboration How developers can use the 2007 Microsoft Office system to create powerful collaboration tools

Client Development Using the Microsoft Office System client

Enterprise Project Management Project 2007 and enterprise project management.

2007 Office System Video: Business Intelligence

Download this series of developer-oriented videos from Microsft.com to view conference breakout sessions about building smart client and browser-based BI solutions leveraging a wide array of extensible capabilities, including key performance indicators, PivotTables, Web parts, and spreadsheet-based Web services.

SQL Server 2005 Books Online (July 2006)

Download an updated version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. See the Additional Information section for an update on SQL Server Express Books Online.

SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (July 2006)

Download over 100 samples and three sample databases for SQL Server 2005 from Microsoft.com.

MVP Allen Browne's Tips for Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access tips, solutions, tutorials, help, and examples from Allen Browne Articles for beginners and advanced users of Access. Examples and solutions, bugs and traps to avoid, and sample code & utilities to download. All free.

The Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive

The first two years of the Hey, Scripting Guy! column, gathered in one fully-searchable archive. This HTML help file includes all the text, graphics, and hyperlinks for nearly 500 Hey, Scripting Guy! columns. Includes many useful scripts using the Windows Scripting object.

WEBCAST: Ensuring High Availability for SQL Server

Webcast: Ensuring High Availability for SQL Server A live TechRepublic.com Webcast to see a walkthrough demonstration of such a product, WANSyncHA SQL, XOsoft's business continuity solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005.

Top 10 advanced features of SQL Server SQL 2005

From TechRepublic.com: Top 10 advanced features of SQL Server SQL 2005 New features enhance productivity, efficiency, availability, and administrative ease. A discussion of the more advanced new features of the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine.

Latest MS Access KB Articles
Courtesy of KbAlertz.com:

Access 97

167852 ACC97: Can't Use Back Button in IE3 If Started from Web Toolbar
167293 ACC: Can't Print Datasheet Gridlines in Color in Access 95/97

Access 2000

917284 MS06-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office could allow remote code execution
914797 Description of the security update for Office 2000: July 11, 2006
917152 Description of the security update for Office 2000 and for Project 2000: July 11, 2006
288300 ACC2000: "Microsoft Access Can't Find the Wizard..." Error Message After You Apply the Access 2000 and SQL Server 2000 Readiness Update
918957 A file does not open in the program that you expect when you try to open the file in Office

Access 2002

919530 Description of the Access 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for the Estonian version of Access 2002: June 6, 2006
914796 Description of the security update for Office XP: July 11, 2006
917150 Description of the security update for Office XP, the security update for Project 2002, and the security update for Visio 2002: July 11, 2006

Access 2003

917151 Description of the security update for Office 2003: July 11, 2006
914455 Description of the security update for Office 2003, for Project 2003, and for OneNote 2003: July 11, 2006
921647 Description of the Access 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: June 26, 2006
915433 Description of the Office 2003 hotfix package: April 5, 2006
913646 Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: April 24, 2006
919427 You cannot use can the MSOLAP provider name to reference the Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider after you install or repair an Office 2003 program
921025 You cannot open Access report snapshot (.snp) files in Internet Explorer after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2
921024 Error message when you use Access 2003 to open a database file: "Error 1706. No valid source could be found"