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Paradigma Software released version 5.0 of its Valentina Database and tools. The hard databases competition is an advantage for us developers; we get better tools and more for our money. Paradigma Software continue to offer some great tools for free; An updated and more powerful Valentina Studio which...
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It’s very exceptionable that I get thrilled over a software. The last time must be the first version of Excel 2.1d, that’s nearly 30 ago, I got in my hand! I can only say that it’s an excellent software and it’s also free. It’s so good that I say its speak for itself. The...
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I’m getting worried over what’s going on. For every new version of Office and Excel there has been a positive tone in the online community and an excitement with the new features. But that’s not really true with MS Office 2013. The terms to use a license shrink and some features are...
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For the larger group of developers the vendor Kellerman Software may be an unknown vendor. Time to change it. For the last couple of years I have been using components for developing managed COM solutions for MS Excel. The components are great and do the work well. Now Kellerman Software has released...
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I’m happy to inform that Microsoft is developing and expand their services and support to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). From my point of view this is most welcoming as this group of companies have been sidestepped for some time now by Microsoft, in favour to the group of enterprises...
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In case You wonder; VB6, aka classic VB, is still in use Developing VB6 based COM add-ins is still an option, especially when targeting Excel 2000 and onforward. Microsoft has reported that Office 2013 does not include an important dependency file, Add-in Designer Object Library (msaddndr.dll). If You...
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I just want to add an article that gives the URLs for downloading the SDK and the Toolkit for Apps for Office with Visual Studio 2012. It’s not easy to keep up the pace and find the required tools so this is also a reminder to myself. Download: Excel 2013 SDK: Excel 2013 XLL Software [...] Read...
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A software program’s success is usually depended on its functionality, i.e. it does the work and it has a user-friendly UI. In fact, the UI is the most important part of applications as that is what the end-users see and work via. This is something we all known (or at least should know). Among...
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I thought I would get on with the blog much faster than I have done. Visual Studio (VS) 2012 has been out now for some time but still it’s ‘a new kid in town’. First I thought I would make some kind of a walkthrough for the news in VS however I ended up turning down [...] Read More...
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Microsoft have recently released a new version of its excellent tool, PowerPivot, for Excel 2010. It can be downloaded from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 Kind regards, Dennis Read More...
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Microsoft has recently released a new version of their toolkit Data Mining for MS Excel. It’s for SQL Server 2012 and explicit target MS Excel 2010. To download it click on the following text: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Excel 2010 In addition, Microsoft has released...
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I recently stoped by at Add-in Express and noticed an interesting series of articles that compare their RAD-tool with VSTO. You may read themselves at the following URLs: Add-in Express vs. Visual Studio Tools for Office Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Version neutrality for your Office extensions Add-in Express...
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This is a notification about a recent published article by Patrick O’Beirne on his blog. Patrick has compiled a list of resources, for native Excel developers, to develop User Defined Functions (UDFs) with ExcelDna in VB.NET. For some years ago several developers in the online Excel community made...
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If You’re a VBA Developer You should know what best practices is to export data to MS Excel. Two expressions summarize it; Microsoft ActiveX Data Object Library and CopyFromRecordset. However, if You’re a .NET developer and face a situation where You must find a solution to export data to...
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During the summer Microsoft released a new tool, MSDN English Forum Assistant. It’s a gadget tool and it provides us with a shortcut to MSDN forums, i.e. we don’t need to use any web browser. The tool targets all visitors and makes it easy to ask questions, monitor threads or forums, access...