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• A Sincere and Permanent Attachment

  Tags: Office

  Monday, May 31, 2004 8:20:00 AM

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  Our goal for today is automatically attaching a Smart Document to a document - hopefully from a button or a COM add-in or something. Well, my pre-2003 Office skills are a bit rusty, so I haven't … more

• Erase-a-RegKey.

  Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:38:00 PM

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  For many years now I've been using .REG files to deploy registry changes - quick, easy and notepad-compatible. The problem is that I could easily add or modify keys with this, but couldn't erase … more

• Reporting Services and Sharepoint

  Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:34:00 PM

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  In case you missed it in the setup Help file (I did) and you installed SQL Server Reporting Services on a virtual directory that's under Windows Sharepoint Services - there are some manual things to … more

• State of the Nation

  Sunday, May 9, 2004 11:49:00 AM

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  Another painful point I have just noticed. Again, this was embedded in the SDK, but so deep you would hardly notice it until you looked for it specifically: All instances of Winword will use the same … more

• Communication Breakdown

  Tags: Office

  Sunday, May 9, 2004 8:14:00 AM

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  And today, on “Why Smart Documents Are Giving Me Ulcers”: ActiveX controls! The concept is simple - I want to have an ActiveX control on my Smart Document that can affect the Smart Doc … more