My two cents... (as my team says)
I remember many days (and nights too) when I was desperate trying to find some source code, conceptual or procedural documentation related to a specific technology and I just could not find the exact line of code that I was looking for. I remember also how grateful I felt when I found an article in a developer community Web site and I just can’t describe how thankful I was to the different authors that invested their time thinking in someone else and writing down their experiences and knowledge. By now, I owe two many beers to people that write for MSDN, Code Project, and C# Corner; however, more than buying a beer to every author who has helped me through my technical struggles, I knew that there was a better way to pay back the help and advice to the developer community: making yourself a contributor.
I started writing technical articles and published them at my Web Site, later, some articles were published in C# Corner, and two months ago I joined Microsoft again. This time having the great opportunity to do developer evangelism through the Office Developer Center. I am currently writing my first "MSDN column" and in the middle of the writing I stopped to think about how much we can share with other people. Technology evolves so fast that a single person could never know everything there is to know. However, we still can learn from other people who share their knowledge with the community. So I am doing my best to help other people in the same way because I appreciate the effort and time that other people invest in sharing their knowledge.
I don't have a big list of published articles because most of the technical documentation that I created in MCS belongs to the customers. However, I published this year the following technical articles:
ASP.NET 2.0 Colorful Web Site Starter Kit
Insert Master-Detail Data by using the Transact-SQL OPENXML method with .NET
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts and .NET Part 1
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts and .NET Part 2
Insert programmatically a bitmap to Microsoft Word documents
I hope the list keeps growing, and as I promised today to Guy Stat, I will get to "Object-Oriented Programming Concepts and .NET Part 3." I have been so excited with Office development that I completely forgot about this and I got to the very bad practice of writing an incomplete series of articles.
If there is some topic that you think is a MUST at the Office Developer Center, please let me know. We are constantly looking for ideas of great content that developers would die to have.
My two cents....