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I thought that I should flag for the new diagnostic tool, AddInSpy, from MSFT. I have only started out to test it but I already like what I see. It can be a valuable source to detect present status for individual COM add-ins of all kind, i.e. managed, VSTO and unmanaged and provide a great number of...
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When we install new software we usually are given the options to either install it to “Everyone” or “Just Me”. Under normal conditions this is not an issue but suppose that we only want to install the software to either the person (”Just Me”) who installs it or to...
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At present my time table does not permit me to explore new things so I have postponed delving into some areas to the next year.
However, in some cases I have made some research to get access to interesting sources and tools which I hope will help me out. LINQ is one area that is of high interest which...
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The version of the COM Shim Wizard that supports VS 2008 is finally available.
The documentation seems to be the same as for the previously version, indicating that the update is only to make sure it works with VS 2008. In other words, it works with both VS 2005 and VS 2008.
To download it You can use...
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Recently I faced a situation where I created a managed COM add-in, based on the Shared Add-in template in VS 2008, which didn’t work at all. The configuration I work with is: Windows XP with SP-3 Office 2003 with SP-3
VS 2008 I had no issue to create the managed COM add-in but when I debugged it...
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A new and time consuming project keeps me busy so at present I don’t have the time to post here on a regular basis. Anyway, the following links points to several recently published articles by MSFT. Finally, the version 1.0 of Open XML Format SDK is released. It provides us with new tools to interact...
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Whenever I need some enviroment information I always tries to read the wanted values from Windows registry. In VB.NET this is as rather straightful process as we have access to the namespace “Microsoft.Win32′ which includes the class to work with the registry.
Recently I had a need to find...
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Together with a lot of Intellisense improvements a large number of Code Snippets is also shipped with VB 2008. But what may be surprising is that there is no tool included to create and manage our own Code Snippets with. This is where VB Snippet Editor comes in. It gives us the option to develop our...
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A common task is to view filtered data from databases in Windows applications where the users then can select records to be imported into Excel. In this context the main issue is usually how to achieve an acceptable performance when writing the selected data to Excel.
When it comes to automation of Excel...
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Nowadays it’s a common task to retrieve data from databases and put the data into MS Excel. The acquired data is usually part of the information in decision processes. The data that is stored in databases are either collected automatically or manually. The process of collecting data manually can...