This week a colleague approached me to consult about a problem he had encountered, where it was necessary to ensure that the Clipboard was empty when Microsoft Word exits. It was part of a legacy Word automation solution that he wasn’t in a position to change just yet, and it would crash if there was [...]
While working on a VSTO add-in for Microsoft Outlook, I came across the need to access the headers of an email, to parse out X-CustomProperty tags that were put in by an application that sent the emails. However, I couldn’t find a Headers property in the Outlook object model, so below is an attempt to [...]
I stumbled across a library that I didn’t realize was out there, for working with Microsoft Office documents. It only works with the newer Office 2007 and 2010 files (and 2003 with a compatibility pack), i.e. those using the Open XML standard. Download and install the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5124. I [...]
[This post accompanies a question posted here: http://superuser.com/questions/90665/context-is-hindi-when-printing-line-numbers-in-word-2007] I’m trying to print a Word 2007 document with Line Numbering turned on, and in Word the document looks fine but when I print the document, the line numbers appear in Hindi script. On screen: Printed: I tried deleting my Normal template and allowing Word to create [...]
I have been working on some VSTO add-ins and on deploying them, and have something to share that I didn’t find anywhere else. First of all, let me just say that despite certain hurdles, deploying using ClickOnce has been a very pleasant experience. After following some tutorials on making an MSI, we eventually ended up [...]
When coding for an organization that uses Active Directory, you will eventually come across the business case for using groups within groups, i.e. a user is part of say, the HR-Administration group, and that group is itself a member of the HR-Department group. You may then need to secure your application to only allow members [...]
I recently installed Windows 7 – which is currently being developed and will be released in the next few months – on my home computer. I had heard good things about it, and was keen to test out this latest preview version. It replaced my 6-month old XP installation. Here are some screenshots of things [...]
Some days ago I was introduced to this website: prezi.com, for creating presentations online. The editor uses Flash and is entirely online, and you can upload pictures, videos and other flash animations to it. Anyway, I had signed up for their closed beta and earlier today I received a login. The timing was quite fortuitous [...]