Monday, January 14, 2013

Integrating the web with Office

There are several core changes with MS Office Suite 2013 that shift focus from VBA to standard web centric languages e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Cloud based solutions that offer up an impressive selection of solutions that once required weeks of effort to complete.  There are nifty JavaScript API's to interact with Office content.  There are rich solutions that integrate data and web content using the same code base supporting the multiple devices.  

Office 2013 comes with Simplified management, increased security, central configuration, discoverability, remote execution are how Microsoft solved many issues facing deployment where the open-sourced movement at times crushed office applications.  
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Visual Studio Tools for Office



Visual Studio Tools for Office

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System can help you take advantage of the productivity enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework version to extend applications in Microsoft Office.  

Below are links to all three versions VSTO 


Office 2013 and Office 2012 
You can extend Office 2013 and Office 2010 by using Office developer tools in Visual Studio. You can build two types of solutions: solutions that focus on web integration and solutions that target the .NET Framework and are more deeply integrated with the Office object model.



What's new for Office 2013 developers

Learn about the features and technologies of Office 2013 that are of interest to developers.
Applies to: apps for Office | apps for SharePoint | Office 2013 | Office 365 | SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Server 2013  more








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Friday, January 11, 2013

Blogging For Page Views

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Blogging for Page Views

Walnut Creek CA: One of the main reasons I'm using Blogger or Blogspot is during my testing phase it was clear that Google was indexing pages nearly on the spot.  The traffic patterns was noticeably better with near instantaneous search updates as some pages appeared in minutes.  I also operate another blog that gets far more traffic but it not related to tech, they have broader audience but technical the articles required a great deal more effort to "get it right" which if you've ever written a tech page then you'll agree as one mistake can leave the reader super ticked at you the writer.

As time goes by this blog will have thousands of pages but eventually I'll drive it from an ASP.NET Blog Engine or my own personal version or perhaps I'll be in the after-life looking down and laughing at my mistakes but chances are during the pearly gates inauguration period the code will be quite useless as the next release is always.

There are a number of factors why a database engine is needed as Blogger is not a database at the end user level but it does run on a database.  There are numerous weak spots such as auto-indexing, custom sorting, page layouts that could be better but search limitations have their moments but dammit it works.  Soon I'll be using SQL driven pages to create these pages and related indexes but I'll posting the code, forms, reports as sort of an incubating project.

Blogger is fast way to find an audience but this long time web developer never considered blogging to be viable as I went what a bunch of bull ---- but alas I'm here.

By morning this new page will be indexed on Google Search.  Hurry, the mean Google Search Machine is seeking the ROBOTS.TXT file - no file? no problem they gonna take every page.

Careful for what you wish for and careful what you post.



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Thursday, January 10, 2013