Put quite simply, there is no future for Office Web Components (OWC) going forward. Microsoft has decided not to update OWC beyond the current version (OWC v11) included Microsoft Office 2003. While …

A few of my favorite Dilberts before I head out on a nice vacation through the 4th of July: And my personal favorite... Audios... cya in July.

Here I sit, waiting for another long running VSS operation so now's a good time as ever to post this (did I mention I hate VSS with a passion?)... Upon arriving at TechEd in Boston last Sunday, one …

Cheers to my former co-authors & Spencer Harbar on a new MCMS book: Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0. In this book they explain how to get SP2 installed and up and …

Todd Bleeker gave a few talks in the Office Technical Learning Center (TLC) Theater last week at TechEd 2006 in Boston. As promised, he's posted the code samples from his talk to the Mindsharp site's …

I'm way late on posting this... frankly trying to slam out a bunch of work before TechEd, TechEd itself, and now trying to catch up on a bunch of work before I head for a relaxing vacation on a …

I’ll be presenting 3 sessions at the DevConnections Fall conference, specifically at SharePoint Connections at the beautiful Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, NV, November 6–9. All three of my …

During Bill English's Theater talk Friday afternoon on the last day of TechEd 2006 in Boston, Bill announced a book he's working on. Bill English, along with some coauthors, are writing the MOSS 2007 …

This year's attendee party at TechEd 2006 was at Boston's Fenway Park, home of the Boston RedSox (gee, who didn't know that)? Now, I'm not a huge MLB fan... the last few years I have gotten back into …

Another TechEd week is behind us, and what a week it was. The big coming out party centered around Office with its pending 2007 release later this year/early next year. As usual, the best part is …

Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge has posted a white paper detailing how to email enable document libraries in MOSS 2007 Beta 2. » How to configure Email Enabled Lists in MOSS 2007 beta 2 using …

[via Developer Express blogs] It’s no secret I’m in love with DevExpress’ DXCore, CodeRush, and Refactor! Pro as I posted about them late last year. If you follow the DevExpress newsgroups, saw a …

Now if this isn’t just damn cool!!! On this site you can add content to VS 2005 documentation topics and edit contributions from other users.  Our goal is to extend the documentation with code …

As I mentioned a few weeks back, Microsoft is adding a handful of new newsgroups for SharePoint, specifically around SharePoint Server 2007. For those of you MCMS folks, the new newsgroups are the …

[via Sahil Malik] What is this, training week? First I get a reminder from Russ that there’s a MSDN TechNet briefing this week in Jacksonville, FL. Then its Joe Healy pimping the Tampa Bay TechEd …

MSFT just released the Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit for SharePoint (WSS/MOSS) Beta 2. The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit for 2007 Office System (Beta 2) contains ECM …

Didn't sign up for teched this year?  Couldn't get anyone to foot the t&e  for travel to Boston? Too late, TechEd is filled up anyway. Do you or your customers still have a craving for deep geek …

[via Stefan Goßner] While not officially supported my MSFT, Stefan recently added a post detailing how you can use ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in MCMS 2002 SP2 sites » MCMS 2002 SP2 with ASP.NET Web …

Later this week MSDN’s TechNet Briefing series stops in Jacksonville, FL. Topics include: Language Enhancements in the .NET Framework 2.0 Exploring the Enterprise Library for the .NET Framework 2.0 …

As many are already aware, the .NET Framework v2.0 added MSBuild. MSBuild is a build platform that decoupled the build process our of earlier versions of Visual Studio. This makes it easy for you to …

[via Stefan Goßner] Microsoft had to modify the behavior of ActiveX controls due to an existing patent from Eolas on this technology. See here for more details on this. After the change ActiveX …