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IEBlog : Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions
Microsoft announces a bunch of css 3 properties with -ms- prefix! Best of all... take a look at block-progression and see the next bookmark I'm adding at ma.gnolia.
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David Ebbo's blog : ProcessGeneratedCode: A hidden gem for Control Builder writers
If you’ve ever written any non-trivial ASP.NET control, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a Control Builder. Basically, it’s a class that you associate with your control ...
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http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/2008/11/19/a-hidden-gem-for-control-builder-writers.aspx
Mike Ormond's Blog : LINQ to JSON
The LINQ to JSON query may not look as neat (due to the loosely typed nature of the JSON objects) but boy does this save me a lot of work. I don't have to define a .NET type that represen...
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http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/08/21/linq-to-json.aspx
Antimail : When CoCreateInstance returns 0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE)
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IE 8 Compatibility: Meta Tags, Http Headers, User Agent Strings, etc.
A comprehensive investigation into the exact effects of various compatibility measures in IE8. Find out exactly which rendering mode and UA string is triggered by which techniques.
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OneNote Tips & Tricks : Napkin Math in OneNote
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Tim Sneath : Some Great Silverlight Controls
The Silverlight 1.1 alpha bits don't currently have much in the way of controls. The infrastructure is there (you can derive from System.Windows.Control, for instance), and we include a f...
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Mitsu's blog : Visual Linq query builder for Linq to Sql: VLinq
Hi all, After almost one year of work and organization, I am very happy to share this project with you: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq - new setup fixed (4/17/2008) The Visual Linq ...
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Alex Barnett blog : Solving Tag-Hell
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OneNote and Education
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OneNote and Education
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing the First Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
[Cross-posted from Zach Rosenfield's blog .] It's with great excitement that I get to be the first to announce the initial release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit ! Sin...
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Craig Freedman's SQL Server Blog : Recursive CTEs continued ...
In this post, I will finish the discussion of recursive CTEs that I began in my last post. I will continue to use the CTE examples from Books Online . To run these examples, you'll need t...
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A CRM Riff : New! Social BookMarking tool
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Live Search : News Search – now with RSS
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Windows Mobile Shell Blog
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David Stutz and Software "Commodification"
The difference between a commoditized market and a non-commoditized market [...] is whether or not products within that market lend themselves to competition on the basis of features.
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Arpan Shah's Blog : SharePoint Data View Part Magic and Search
This week has been busy with Tech Ready in town! Tech Ready is Microsoft's technical conference for the field. We host it twice a year. It's a great event because it provides an excellent...
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http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2007/07/27/sharepoint-data-view-part-magic-and-search.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 1 of 3)
Hi folks, this is Troy Starr again from the Windows SharePoint Services Test team. Today I'd like to talk about one of the most powerful, but often one of the least understood, features i...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint
[Cross-posting from Mike Ammerlaan's blog . I was going to include this as part of my upcoming "Recommended Reading for March" post, but since it's such an important and frequently asked ...
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SharePoint - notes from the field : Connected Lookup Field
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http://blogs.msdn.com/leonidly/archive/2007/06/24/connected-lookup-field.aspx
Sridhar's Blog : Update "lookup" fields in SharePoint 2007
Lookup fields were innovative feature offered in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 that eased design/development efforts in terms of providing an interface that allows users to pick up dynami...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing the Final Release of VSeWSS 1.1 (and the upcoming version 1.2)!
Hello all, Alex Malek here, PM for the "Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services". I'm pleased to share that today, at the Office Developers Conference in San Jose, we ann...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : SharePoint SDK Downloads Now Live with SP1 Updates
Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the downloadable SDKs for SharePoint Products and Technologies. The February update is ve...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : What About Workflow and ASPX Forms?
Hi everyone, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about using aspx forms in workflow, so I wanted to talk about them a bit here and hopefully address some of the questions you have. To preven...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Developing Workflows in VS: Part 4 - Design and Bind Your Forms
Step 2: Design and Bind Your Forms With your workflow skeleton in place, you should now be able to see where you will be collecting data and what data to collect. With this information, y...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : MOSS 2007 with SP1 (Slipstream) OfficeServerwithSP1.exe Released
The slipstream version also known as the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 has been released. If you've attended any of the Windows Server 2008 sessions or been following t...
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Roger Lamb's SharePoint Developer Blog : SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example
Overview Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) have some gotchas with serious implications that every SharePoint application developer n...
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Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog
Goog blog on using Outlook productively.
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Templates blog
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OneNote Testing : A summary of the OneNote powertoys from the test team for 2007
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Nota Bene : Meet the new OneNote 2007 “Help & How-to” home page
The OneNote 2007 Help & How-to home page on Office Online received a much-needed facelift this week, based in part on numerous customer comments that we’ve received over the past few mo...
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Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog : OneNote 2007 Help & How-to home page
I wanted to point out something on Michael's blog: Meet the new OneNote 2007 “Help & How-to” home page . Check out the link for more details but I will steal some of the flashy stuff:...
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OneNote Testing : The 3 biggest "pain points" we are investigating
OneNote 2007 has been out for over a year, we've shipped our first service pack for it and have had overall very positive comments sent our way from many people who have used OneNote. Tha...
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Brian Jones: Office XML Formats : The myth of the Binary Key
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IEMobile Team Weblog
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IEMobile Team Weblog : AJAX on IE Mobile
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IE+JavaScript Performance Recommendations Part 2: JavaScript Code Inefficiencies
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IE+JScript Performance Recommendations Part 3: JavaScript Code Inefficiencies
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ECMAScript 3 and beyond - compatibility per browser
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JavaScript IE6/7 Memory Leak Detector
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IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone
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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : The Story of the Ribbon
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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Open Source Faceted Search for MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 - Part 1 of 2
This first of two guest blog entries, written by Neil Hodgkinson, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, will cover the "why we did it" aspect of the open source faceted sear...
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Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog
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Live Search's WebLog
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Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : What’s Your Digital Dunbar Number?
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Synergist : Creating an Outlook Appointment based on an Email Message
get an email message and I want to create an appointment from the the message. 1. If the current item is an email, create a new appointment item 2. Copy the categories, body, and su...
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Joel Oleson's Blog SharePoint Land : SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups
I had an email from one of Ted Pattison's students on "security in SharePoint." When I first started reading it, I expected to have some question about server hardening or firewalls, but ...
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TipTalk from Microsoft At Home & At Work
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Hallmarks of a Great Developer
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IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski : FLITTER: SOURCE POSTED
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Michael Swanson's Blog : Wallpaper Images
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Jerbear's Lair : Web Part Connections in WSS 3.0 (Part 3)
In part 1 of this series, I showed how to make one web part accept data from another. In part 2 , I showed that this can be extended so that one web part can provide data for many. Now, i...
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My Technobabble : MVP Guidance Bundle ships
There’s been a lot of talk recently about p&p doing more work on pure patterns. We’ve actually been pushing in this direction internally for quite some time and recently shipped a set...
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Vibro.NET
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David Aiken
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Anatomy of a Software Bug
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Keyboard shortcuts for fast access to favorite OneNote pages
If you're like me you probably have a few OneNote pages or sections that you use frequently. For example, a to do list, daily log, team notebook homepage, or project status page. I like t...
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Alex Barnett's blog : How RSS thickened my Long Tail
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Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog
A nice OneNote blog, that does a monthly recap of article from around the web.
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OneNote Testing
A tester on the OneNote team gives some impressions of the product and usability.
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Nota Bene - Office and OneNote Blog
Michael C. Oldenburg's tips for using OneNote, Office, and Windows Vista
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Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog
Chris's blog is not updated often anymore, he is o longer on the Onenote team, but is a great historical resource for OneNote information.
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The Microsoft Office Word Teams Blog
An overview of MS Word from the development team.
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
The official blog of the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Product Group
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FrontPoint : Using a form to filter a data view web part - or NOT
This is a modified post. My original code sample was more complicated than it needed to be. This one is WAY simpler. I was just thinking that it should be a lot easier to use a Form Web P...
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Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Simple List Extensions Specification (Mirror)
Simple List Extensions Specification is located here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/sle Please update your favorites and links.
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field
The following blog entry is a cross-posting from the SharePoint Designer Team Blog . It has received lots of kudos, so I thought that it deserves a bit more visibility. Hi, my name is Ro...
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Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : SPDataSource and Rollups with the Data View
Hello -- my name is Eray Chou. I’m a Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. I focus mostly on data and app building features, and last release I worked on the Data View. Durin...
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Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : ASP.NET Controls Filter the Data View
Hey there, My name is John Jansen and I'm one of the Test Leads for the SharePoint Designer (SPD) product group. My specialty is data presentation and application building. But I also lov...
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FrontPoint : Selecting unique values in a Drop-down list using the Data View Web Part
I posted awhile ago about how to select unique values for tabular data views, but I have now received a few emails asking how to do it for drop-down lists. It is almost the exact same cod...
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SSIS Stuff
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SSIS Stuff
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Simon Ince's Blog
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My Technobabble : More Web Client goodness shipping, WCSF 2.0.
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Andrew May's WebLog : SharePoint Terminology: Column vs. Field vs. Property
Today I want to address a piece of SharePoint terminology that confused me no end when I first started working on the products. So, here’s a quick overview of three terms that tend...
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Andrew May's WebLog : What Are Content Types, Anyway?
One of the major new concepts in Windows SharePoint Services V3 is content types. They're a core concept that enables a lot of the functionality in both Windows SharePoint Services and Of...
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http://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may/archive/2006/05/24/SharePointBeta2WhatAreContentTypes.aspx
Mark Bower : Customizing SharePoint Context Menus
Introduction Drop-down menus in Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enable actions that relate to a specific document in a document library to be viewed and invo...
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Windows Live ID Web Authentication Released!
"Windows Live ID is the identity and authentication system provided by Windows Live. Currently, more than 380 million users have credentials that work with Windows Live ID. And now, Micro...
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IEBlog : Details on our CSS changes for IE7
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Larry Osterman's WebLog : Why is the DOS path character "\"?
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My experiments with .Net : Combine CSS with JS and make it into a single download!
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