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Book excerpt: Building document management solutions in SharePoint 2007

John Holliday — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

This chapter from 'Professional SharePoint 2007 Development' explains the ins and outs of creating document management solutions.

Book excerpt: Building personalized solutions in SharePoint 2007

Brendon Schwartz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

This chapter from 'Professional SharePoint 2007 Development' walks developers through the process of creating a SharePoint 2007 portal site.

Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office?

Brian Eastwood — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

VSTO has been integrated with Visual Studio 2008. It just takes a bit of digging to determine what VS 2008 editions actually contain Visual Studio Tools for Office.

Using SharePoint, Office to develop portals and mashups

George Lawton, Contributor — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Office aren't just for the desktop anymore. A recent conference showed how they can be used to build portals and business mashups.

Gates offers musings on Office, services at ODC

George Lawton, Contributor — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:36:39 EST

Bill Gates' keynote address at the Office System Developers Conference focused on more than just Office. He also spoke about software plus services and the future of computing.

Yahoo rejects Microsoft bid, may talk to AOL instead

Brian Eastwood — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:06:38 EST

Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's bid to buy the company for more than $40 billion, saying Microsoft's offer "substantially undervalues" Yahoo. A Yahoo-AOL deal has been suggested.

Office System Developer Conference 2008 preview

Brian Eastwood — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:11:01 EST

Next week's Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008 is shaping up as a significant display of Office-related tools. It is a big-step in the company's effort to forward the notion that Office can be born again as a new type of application development platform.

Picking a .NET smart client communications technology

Brian Noyes, Contributor — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:16:25 EST

In this article, IDesign's Brian Noyes presents the different technologies available for communication in a Smart Client application and how to chosse between the options based on your application's needs. He covers performance characteristics of each option as well as security contraints on the choices made.

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion

Brian Eastwood — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:11:28 EST

Microsoft announced early Friday that it has made a proposal to the board of directors of Yahoo to buy the company for $31 a share, which amounts to $44.6 billion.

ClickOnce: Automated smart client deployment

Brian Noyes, Contributor — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:32:12 EST

In this article, Brian Noyes presents the options currently available for smart client deployment and how to choose among them. He then goes into detail about the new .NET 2.0 feature called ClickOnce for deploying smart client applications.