PermaLink Going after Notes developers quote in Forbes09/06/2005 02:29 PM


"We're definitely targeting Notes developers" is what I'm quoted as saying.  As I look at these words, it appears one may take this as a threat.   Let me be clear, When Microsoft targets the Notes developers, it's good news.   When I was "surplused" out of IBM, it seemed no one was targeting Notes developers.  We were left out in the cold.   IBM was saying Java, Java, Java and Microsoft didn't realize we existed.  This Notes developer found adding .NET and Visual Studio to my development skills pretty easy.  Now I love Visual Studio as much as I love LotusScript.  By adding these skills to my resume, I was able to move from sky diving bum, which is a great job if you don't need to make a living, to a dream job here at Microsoft.  


Surprisingly I've been fighting a winning battle to get Microsoft to realize the value of all the Notes developers and to help them add to their skill set.  So look for a whole lot of support coming from Redmond,   A professional Notes developer web site is in the works along with web casts, videos, white papers, code samples and more.   I'm even doing an indigo/Notes demo at PDC

 

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1. Brooklynegg11/17/2005 09:40:44 AM


Maintenance: the main page of your advisor blog is supposed to have something like November 5, 2005 at the top of each entry to show when it was, uh, blogged. It shows "5, 2005" instead. The month translator seems to be on break. Entries that show the numeric date (11/5/2005) seem to work properly.

Now, on to business: I'm trying to write Notes data to a Word Document. I've found various tips on how to do this, but nothing seems to get me where I need to go. I currently have a system in which I get an excel template from a Notes document that holds the attachment, does a bunch of queries and runs through collections to get data, writes it to the xlobject, then saves the resulting file and attaches to a new Notes doc. I basically want to do the same thing to a Word document, but can't find a good example of doing them same thing. The best example I've found so far is one the puts an embedded object in the form UI and manipulates things there. I don't want that. I want to write it, then attach it and/or display it to the user. The example I've been working from is on The View. (Kimberly Junker - July/August 2001). Her article points to an old Gary Devendorf page. I found this page by searching Google. If you would be so kind to point me to a book, training, an article, etc., that would help me navigate the objects properly so I write and save the document, I would greatly appreciate it.




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