March 2005 - Posts

Followup to my Followup to Using Excel 2003 XML features for a Poor Mans Schema Generator Post
30 March 05 03:44 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

About 30 minutes ago local time I posted the following entry in my blog: Followup to Using Excel 2003 XML features for a Poor Mans Schema Generator Post . Well I’m a little embarrased as Mark Wielgus responded with the most obvious solution. Hello! Read More...

Followup to Using Excel 2003 XML features for a Poor Mans Schema Generator Post
30 March 05 03:20 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

One reader sent me a valid question regarding my post on the poor man’s version of a schema generator. He wants to know programmatically how he can import XML without gettting the following message from Excel: Now can programmatically import using Read More...

Show #2: Interview with John Durant of the Office Developer Center on MSDN
28 March 05 07:49 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Our second show just went up online and it's a good one. John Durant gives us the inside scoop on the Office Developer Center. View information about the show on our pod cast blog: http://geeklenet.typepad.com/ozpodcast/ Read More...

Can't Get Enough Microsoft Access? Check out Utter Access Discussion Forums
27 March 05 08:34 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

The Utter Access Discussion Forums is a lively and strongly supported discussion board for Microsoft Access developers and those interested in Database development in general. The UA site claims that nearly 80,000 members have signed up at UA to enjoy Read More...

ClearContext 1.1 for Outlook Now Available
25 March 05 08:43 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Brad Meador over at ClearContext let me know that version 1.1 is now available: We are writing to let you know that version 1.1 of ClearContext Inbox Manager is now available. See the link at the bottom of http://www.clearcontext.com/download.html to Read More...

Just $799.00 for Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System
22 March 05 05:43 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

This week Microsoft announced the pricing for Visual Studio Tools for Office version 2005. As you know from previous posts, I am very excited about this next version. Well it will cost you $799 and if you own the prior version it will cost you $599 to Read More...

Using Excel 2003 XML features for a Poor Mans Schema Generator
09 March 05 09:38 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Do you have an XML document but don’t have an accompanying XSD Schema? There are a lot of great tools that will help you build a schema, however they all cost money. If you already own Excel 2003 you already own a schema generator. You may be suprised Read More...

Update to Bells & Whistles for Outlook
07 March 05 07:36 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Hey Gang, just got an email from Dan Pascal letting me know there is a new update to Bells & Whistles for Outlook and they they are still honoring the OfficeZealot.com discount code . Hi Chris, We just released a new version (v2.5) of Bells & Whistles Read More...

Stupid Trick #1: Copying a Message Box to the Clipboard
06 March 05 08:45 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Charles turned me on to a nice little trick to use when developing. I also have to say I feel stupid, as I could have used this tip for years. Stupid Trick #1: If you use the MsgBox function to create a message box, did you know you can copy and paste Read More...

I speak French and Dutch
05 March 05 02:07 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

One of the great things about writing for Microsoft is you never know when your articles will get translated into another language. It’s actually kind of funny to see your articles in languages you don’t speak. Here is an article I did that Read More...

Where is the MSXML 5.0 Documentation?
02 March 05 07:05 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

This seems to be one of those questions I get frequently and I can’t blame people. If you go up to MSDN and type in MSXML 5 (or even 4.0) here is what MSDN returns: As you can see, the resuls are not very useful. The good news is if you have Microsoft Read More...