October 2006 - Posts

posted Monday, October 30, 2006 6:32 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Access to private keys for your X.509 Certificates

Mike posted here about the difficulty he had remembering the tool that you can use to manage ACLs on your certifcates' private keys. "Good news everyone" (I'm a Futurama fan)... The Certificates snap-in for MMC in Windows Vista has a "Manage Private Read More
posted Monday, October 30, 2006 4:21 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Making Test Certificates for WCF

When I'm working with WCF I occasionally need to produce test certificates that I can use to identify my clients and services (mainly services).  The trouble is, in between times I forget the syntax of makecert.exe, and I forget the specific Read More
posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:08 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Office 2007: Extending the Ribbon without an Add-in

In the past I've spoken about how to modify and extend the ribbon from code using an add-in, so I thought it's time I said something about other ways to control the ribbon's appearance.  Sometimes, when working with a particular document, you want Read More
posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:58 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Showing the Developer Tab in Word 2007

The developer tab in Word 2007's ribbon includes controls for authoring macros and working with XML.  By default it is hidden.  To show the developer tab, here's what you need to do... Open the Office Menu (click on the big round button in Read More
posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:45 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

DevWeek 2007

It's happening in the week commencing 26th Feb 2007.  I'll be speaking on Thursday 1st March, about developing for the 2007 Microsoft Office platform using Visual Studio Tool for Office.  Full event details here.   Read More
posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:17 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Office 2007: Extending Built-in Ribbon Tabs

If you want to add controls to ribbon tabs that are built into the Office 2007 applications, it's pretty much the same as creating your own tabs from scratch.  Here's a brief snippet of xml that does this kind of thing...       Read More
posted Monday, October 16, 2006 1:37 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Outlook 2007 Form Regions - Post B2TR Changes

There have been some changes to the programming model for Outlook 2007 Form Regions.  Full details can be found here.   Read More
posted Friday, October 13, 2006 5:34 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Document Information Panels in Office 2007

For some time now, the Office applications have allowed you to define document properties: extra information (or metadata) that can be carried around with the document itself.  If you're using a SharePoint server those properties can be promoted Read More
posted Friday, October 13, 2006 5:30 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

SharePoint Centralised Schema Management - Content Types

Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) have revolutionised the way that information schema are managed in a SharePoint site. In the past, the only notion of schema was that you could define the columns Read More
posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:04 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Workflow in Sharepoint

Windows Sharepoint Services v3 makes use of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) so that administrators can associate workflows with content items.  Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 sits on top of WSS and adds a few built-in workflows to cover Read More
posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:32 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

I Use Consolas

The code samples I put in my blog posts are styled to use the Consolas font.  That's because I use Consolas in VS2005.  If my code samples look a bit odd to you, it could be because you don't have Consolas installed. If you don't have it, Read More
posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:19 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

InfoPath 2007 Form in a Custom Web Page

One of the new features in InfoPath 2007 is the ability to view/edit forms in a browser.  The InfoPath Forms Services technology is available either as part of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, or Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007. When you Read More