Attached is the deck for Visual Studio Tools for Office session, which I presented in DevCon2006, organized by SgDotNet committee for student community.
Guess what! The attached PDF file is generated using Microsoft Office 2007 add-on "Save as PDF". Pretty cool!
In the past, I used to export the slides as pictures and inserted them into Word document for distribution because I don't have PDF writer software. That was not productive at all as I have to manually export and paste them into the document. But with this new trick, I can easily convert my decks into PDF files in a few clicks, and most importantly the quality is beyond my expectation.
Here is the link for the add-on.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en
Setting up a business/company? Looking for an Accountant?
Okay, okay... I am not talking about jobs and recruitments, or even business partnership.
If you are looking for some user-friendly tools and mostly importantly FREE stuffs, here is the deal.
Microsoft offers FREE (no strings attached) licensed software, Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, for managing accounts for companies. This one requires .NET Framework 2.0, which is installed automatically as part of the package if you do not have it yet. If you intend to store data locally rather than using it as a client to connect to a centralized database, then SQL Express is required and it will be installed automatically, too.
The download is about 208MB. Here is the link.
http://www.ideawins.com/
For those who are professional accountants, you may consider the real deal. Check it out what you are missing in Microsoft Accounting Express 2007 as compared to Microsoft Accounting Professional 2007.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/accountingexpress/FX102097791033.aspx
Enough! Time for me to go and learn accounting concepts from the finance team, so that I can play with this FREE toy.