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September 2004 - Posts

Monday, September 27, 2004 8:46 PM

Excel: Code to add picture to Excel Comment

As you can see in the following image below, you can insert images as Excel comments. Ok... so I am not sure of all the medicinal uses of this technology but it is cool. Imagine that you have a list of parts for a product and you want to assign them to
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Monday, September 27, 2004 10:26 AM

Google Groups 2 Beta

Google is getting ready to take newgroups to a new and more personal level. Now in beta, Google Groups 2 extends traditional newgroup reading by allowing you to create your own groups, mailing lists, and email newsletters. Google is also promising faster
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:18 AM

Virtual PC 2004: More on Differencing Disks for VPC...

Did you know that you can chain a differencing disk onto another differencing disk? (In fact 'rumor' has it you can chain in upwards of 20 off each other from one base image!) That's really cool because so far, I cannot figure how to shrink differencing
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:25 PM

Virtual PC 2004 Differencing Disks

Stop recreating that perfect VPC image over and over and start using Differencing Disks ! If you use Virtual PC, chances are you have spent a lot of time building out an image that represents your desired end goal. But its a shame to 'dirty' that image
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Monday, September 20, 2004 10:18 AM

Microsoft to share Office 2003 source world governments

Microsoft reported yesterday that it going to share the source code of Office 2003 with several governments as a part of its Government Security Program (GSP) (see the official press release ). One of the main reasons is to allow these authorities to
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Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:11 PM

Dude, I got Dell-ed...

Since I have been developing primarily off my notebook for a while, I decided to get a little more power in my 'life' and bought a fully kitted out Dell 8400 desktop. The hardware really smokes with blah, blah (RAID 0 drives, 2gb mem, and a 3.4 processor)....
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Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:03 PM

Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms

Found this video on MSDN's Channel 9 where Joe Steman from the Microsoft WinForms team demos building an MS Outlook UI clone in 100 lines of code using the upcoming Visual Studio.Net. Pretty cool; now if we could just get him to finish the back end we
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Saturday, September 11, 2004 3:30 PM

FTPOnline offers up their view on IBF in a new article

An article “ Connect Office & WSS With Microsoft Information Bridge Framework “ by Peter O'Kelly looks to explain IBF, which is cool since it shows up in Windows Server System magazine ...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:58 PM

So you want to be an Office Developer? Read this...

...or perhaps you already are (or need to be)... Microsoft just posted a new downloadable document entitled Office 2003 Document: Overview of Developer Technologies that really looks deeply at all the solution options involving MS Office. As per MSFT's
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:03 PM

I spell much better now, thank you.

In a post a while back I declared that “ I spell like siht “, and I was (uh...pleasantly) not so surprised that so many other folks admitted to having a similar disorder. Well time has passed and while I still can't spell or use grammar worth
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 6:47 PM

PPT: Remove Slide Notes

Did you ever get your hands on a PowerPoint slide deck from somebody else and read all the (often amusing) slide notes? I always like to make sure that I remove all of my slide notes to make sure I don't embarrass myself. (You know... the 'Click Here'
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