hen I was asked to write a few pages on what’s coming in the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (code named Whidbey), the biggest issue I had was
rom the end user point of view, Web Parts provide customization tools that affect the appearance and content displayed on a workspace. Web Parts empower end users to design their
he much-anticipated release of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is not far away. This is the successor to SharePoint Team Services, and the changes go beyond small enhancements. In the new
f you developed smart tags in Office XP, you’ll be interested in the changes in Office 2003. Smart tag technology links text to resources that provide relevant information useful in
t’s Monday. After arriving at the office, you fill out last week’s timesheet (Microsoft Excel), your expense report (a handwritten form), and your project status report (Microsoft Word). When you
Figure 1: The Research Library is available from the task pane. icrosoft Office 2003 Editions add a powerful new tool to the Office task pane: the Research Library.By default, the
ffice is a staple in most corporations, and .NET developers can easily take advantage of its power and omnipresence. The Visual Studio Tools for Office provide the ability to use
he .doc file format that is still present in Word 2003 is essentially a proprietary binary format; sadly, .doc files are difficult to extract information from. By saving documents in
have been a Microsoft SQL Server developer for a number of years. One the things I like about SQL Server is that it is easy to install and once installed