August 2004 - Posts

Installing VSTO 2005 on a Server, Problem or not a Problem?
31 August 04 03:18 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

I've been listening to a superb presentation by Andrew Clinick about programming against Microsoft Word and Excel on the server with Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 (via Whidbey Beta 1). For those with a background in programming Word and Excel will Read More...

VSTO 2005 Beta 1 Webcasts Available
31 August 04 08:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Over the last month the Visual Studio Tools for Office Team has sponsored a number of informative and useful Webcasts related to Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. You can catch these recorded webcasts at: Data Binding in Word and Excel with Visual Read More...

Interested in Being a Shareware Author?
30 August 04 09:34 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

I've been reading a fascinating eBook called " Shareware Business Blunders E-book 37 industry experts reveal the costliest shareware business mistakes ." The author of the e-Book interviewed many well known and successful shareware authors about what Read More...

Fighting Comment Spam -- Bring it on Spammers!
24 August 04 06:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Just a quick update to this post, we have posted the code in this blog entry . As most bloggers know, these days we are facing a new form of evil on the web: COMMENT SPAM. Comment spam is where unscrupulous individuals take advantage of programming API’s Read More...

You Software Launches You Perform
23 August 04 08:03 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

You Software launched a new product called You Perform . It is a collection of 15 tools designed to help users of Outlook effectively manage e-mail volume, improve communication processes, and increase efficiency for mobile communications. What is really Read More...

Problem with Large WordML Files?
22 August 04 08:32 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Tom Clement posted a good solution to large WordProcessingML files in the newsgroup recently: I've been generating WordProcessingML documents using XMLDocument and ran into a problem where the generated document was significantly larger before opening Read More...

More Success with Office 2003 SP1
21 August 04 05:14 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Oliver Rist of InfoWorld discusses the ease of applying SP1 to Office 2003 and even some of the benefits. Mr. Rist states: Back in production network land, we’ve installed this sucker on about 300 desktops now with about 40 very different configurations. Read More...

Clipboard Review -- It's about time Marc!
18 August 04 05:57 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

I was excited to read Marc Orchant's review of ClipMate , a clipboard organization tool. I actually e-mailed Marc about 6 months ago asking his suggestion and he really didn't have a preference at the time. For all those not familiar with clipboard managers, Read More...

Bad Press for MS Word
17 August 04 02:14 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

I usually try to avoid talking about negative reviews of software because I find reviews to be subjective to the needs of the reviewer. It's not hard to find one review that says a product is the best in the world and then to find another review for the Read More...

Service Pack 2 for Windows XP makes the the Tablet PC Better
07 August 04 10:04 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

I've been beta testing Service Pack 2 on my Tablet PC for about 6 months and I am excited that it is finally officially available. I haven't tested it on my main development PC yet and will probably not do so for a while. If you are using a Tablet PC, Read More...