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Adds another layer of security to your Word or Excel documents. Can search for and bulk process documents to add a protection password or change your protection password.

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.

Many beginners in the C# or VB.NET development category sometimes want to be able to apply themes or styles to their application. This rendering class allows you to easily customize the appearance of your C#/VB.NET applications. This was inspired by the Office2007Renderer, which enables you to apply a multitude of Office 2007 styles to an application. After I began using Office2007Renderer, I found that some of the drawing functions caused severe lag on my applications. So, I took it into my own hands to develop a new Office2007Renderer of my own. From there, it developed into a fully editable class.

You can create reports in many ways, with or without Excel. If you look only at reporting solutions that use Excel, the list roughly gets narrowed down to three:

• SQL Reporting Services
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO)
• Server-side Excel Automation

Of course you can imagine more solutions, but in essence they will not deviate much from the above list. In this article, I'll first look at SQL Reporting Services and VSTO to examine their plusses and minuses, and then I'll take a detailed look at why and how you would build a server-side solution.

The cloud means many things. It means Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Bing and - oh yes - Windows Azure! Windows Azure, as you know, is Microsoft’s cloud operating system. It consists of many parts, but at a high level you can say it includes Compute (web and worker roles, plus storage), SQL Azure and AppFabric. AppFabric, in turn, consists of AppFabric Access Control, ServiceBus, and Cache. This article concerns ServiceBus, and its integration with SharePoint 2010 and Office 365.

One complaint about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 was the difficulty in making changes to the environment after it was deployed. Officially, changing a site definition isn't supported after it has been used to create other sites.

Now, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 offer many ways to make changes to sites after they have been provisioned. The introduction of SharePoint Features has opened up an entire world to changing master pages, page layouts, and pages themselves. Further, SharePoint now includes a new technique—delegate controls—that allows for more fine-grained control over parts of the page.