Our goal for today is automatically attaching a Smart Document to a document - hopefully from a button or a COM add-in or something. Well, my pre-2003 Office skills are a bit rusty, so I haven't … more

For many years now I've been using .REG files to deploy registry changes - quick, easy and notepad-compatible. The problem is that I could easily add or modify keys with this, but couldn't erase … more

In case you missed it in the setup Help file (I did) and you installed SQL Server Reporting Services on a virtual directory that's under Windows Sharepoint Services - there are some manual things to … more

Another painful point I have just noticed. Again, this was embedded in the SDK, but so deep you would hardly notice it until you looked for it specifically: All instances of Winword will use the same … more

And today, on “Why Smart Documents Are Giving Me Ulcers”: ActiveX controls! The concept is simple - I want to have an ActiveX control on my Smart Document that can affect the Smart Doc … more

This has nothing to do with Smart Documents, but I just wanted to mention Sig Weber's XSLT files that enable you to easily show RSS feeds as web parts on a Sharepoint site, without even having to … more

Technically, the same smart document can apply to both Word and Excel. In practice, if you want your smart-doc to actually DO something, chance are half your code will be hacked and kludged to work … more

A few tips to keep in mind when developing and debugging a Smart Document using C# (and probably VB.NET too).(For my own selfish ease-of-use, I will refer to Word exclusively here. All these steps … more