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The purpose this blog post is to provide a generic solution using .NET Reflation and Generics so the same export function can be reused through the entire application regardless of the object type and save us a lot of effort.

One of the biggest issues in getting started with SharePoint development are the 2091097 steps you need to go through, and the heavy duty machine you need to invest in, to create a development environment for a SharePoint and Office developer. This is not unlike the fact that creating and running a production SharePoint farm can be extremely time-consuming.

Leland Holmquest continues to explore his virtual office assistant named “Lily,” created with a Kinect-enabled Windows Presentation Foundation application, in order to advance the means of context-aware dialogue and multimodal communication.

A utility to capture and crop the screen just like OneNote (Office 2010)

This article will demonstrate the approach to use the report viewer control to act as a medium to export image,web form in PDF/Excel .This will help us to do away with third party control to achieve our end objectives.

Everyone is excited about the cloud! Well, at least that is the theory. Microsoft introduced Azure such a long time ago - how many of us are really using it? SharePoint BPOS is around, but we still run servers in our backyard! So, why now? And why are things different this time around?

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft Office and SharePoint helps you bring external data sources into your SharePoint apps. We'll show you how to write a custom .NET Assembly Connector for BCS that lets you read from and write to an OData feed.

Excel XML Writer /Reader - Enables to generate excel xml with hidden columns and lookups

Import an Excel ".xls" into SQL without the use of JET or OLE

The Open XML SDK provides a comprehensive set of classes that make generating and manipulating Microsoft Office documents much simpler and faster than was possible with older Office file formats.