As part of my preparation for presenting on VSTO (download slides here) at SBTUG this week I was asked a number of questions about how VBA and VSTO fit together. Things like: Is VSTO the VBA replacement? How do VSTO and VBA fit together? What is the benefit of learning VSTO? 10 million VBA developers? They’re important questions, after all there are reportedly 10 million VBA developers still...
More on the upcoming SP1 enhancements for VSTO: Eric Carter delves into some of the finer details, specifically with regard to using Word document level (and Excel workbook level) functionality in Application level add-ins. Also, in case you weren’t aware of the .NET Framework Client profile, here’s a quick rundown of what is included (thanks to Justin Van Patten). As the name suggests, the...
This Wednesday at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) is looking really good with five demos scheduled. Yes, five! And I think we can still squeeze in one more if there’s anyone still undecided… When: This Wed 30 July 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) More details: www...
Following on from my overview of Office Business Applications, here’s a quick list of resources if you are interested in learning more. In general I feel that Microsoft has done a poor job of projecting a clear, consistent message about OBA. The result is a mess of various interlinking sites that offer only surface-level answers. Getting to the heart of the OBA vision is a difficult task. That...
I’m putting together the final list of resources for my OBA and VSTO presentation at SBTUG this Wednesday, and I realised there’s plenty of VSTO news that I haven’t linked to of late (here’s my normal VSTO feed if you’re interested). That certainly needs to be remedied, so brace yourself for a few ‘better late than never’ link posts in the next few days :-) Back in May Christen Boyd...
Just a quick note to mention SQL Code Camp (organized by Greg Low) coming up later this year in October . I’ve been to all the Code Camps and SQL Code Camp except one (I missed the very first SQL one) and heartily recommend them. I’ve given my general views on Code Camp in the past, and my opinion is unchanged – these are must-attend events for developers from anywhere in Australia. The...
Office Business Applications is a term getting bandied about a fair bit these days. What is it exactly? Well, answers differ, and you’d be forgiven if you thought it was as simple as using Office to build Applications for use in Business. The purpose of this post is to try to get some simple high level understanding of OBAs. In later posts I’ll be digging into resources and also covering VSTO...
When I first heard Jason Calacanis’ announcement about retiring from blogging last week I thought (like many) it was a joke. After all, he’s had considerable involvement in blogs over the years (cofounder of Weblogs Inc, etc). And leaving blogs to go to… email – well hello? But no, it seems he’s serious, so it made me stop and think. Perhaps, he’s on to something. Personally I’ve...
It’s been a little while since I visited the VFPx site – and boy is it coming along nicely. (For those that don’t know VFPx is the open source add-on community for Visual FoxPro) I like how they’ve categorised all the projects by Release type: Production, Release Candidate, Beta, Alpha, etc. VFPx is the place to get all the Sedna goodness of course, but there’s also plenty of other...
I’m not really one for writing critical posts – frankly I just don’t have the energy… But I’m also not really one for saying thank you either – and this is something I really should be doing more of. Sure, there’s heaps of minor irritations every day, but in the scheme of things I think I’ve got it pretty good. And on top of all the big good things...