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October 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:38 PM

How to create an IIS Virtual Directory with C#

The joys of .NET continue! Creating a virtual directory as part of an automated process was never much fun in the past. We used to do it alot to automate the of setup demos and we (referring to Chris K 'cus he shared my pain) used to resort to using .vbs
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:17 PM

"Microsoft .NET Development for Microsoft Office" by Andrew Whitechapel

If you are doing any type of Office development with .NET, you need to invest $33.99 for Andrew Whitechapel's book Microsoft .NET Development for Microsoft Office . Andrew knows all the little (and big and dirty) secrets of hooking Office with VS that
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Friday, October 15, 2004 7:48 AM

Introducing Akona Systems...

I had the pleasure of meeting with some folks from Akona Systems last night. Akona is a relatively new company but they have already assembled an impressive 'rock-star' team of talented IT professionals many who have come from Microsoft partners or Microsoft
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:16 AM

WordToys: Go play.

Romke Soldaat has been one of the more innovative Word developers for years. You have probably seen his name if you ever browsed the newsgroups in search of Word help... Now he has taken what he as knows and applied it in a really wonderful set of tools
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:05 AM

MSN Messenger Chat Log Dates (Revisited)

I blogged on how you change the sort order for Microsoft's MSN Messenger nearly a year ago ( MSN Messenger Chat Log Dates ). And I must say, I have been quite surprised on the popularity and number of questions I have received. So I thought a bit of a
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Monday, October 11, 2004 11:08 PM

VSTO 2005: Bring it on!

Microsoft is starting to publicly crank out more stuff on VSTO 2005 (Check out the new article on MSDN by Janet Robinson What's New in Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2005 ). Can't help but get jazzed up for this.... there is so many cool things
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Friday, October 08, 2004 11:19 AM

Need a reason to upgrade to Office 2003? How about some good old fashion security flaws...

From CNET: “A security company warned Thursday that a flaw in Microsoft Office could allow a denial-of-service attack to be executed on systems running somewhat older versions of the popular productivity suite. Secunia issued an advisory saying
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