Contents tagged with Office
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Preventing Outlook from closing with Alt-F4
I have come to the realization, at some point, that I never want to close Outlook. Really, there's no reason for me to shut it down except when doing something special, like freeing every … more
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Screencasts vs. Whitepapers
A few weeks ago, Lawrence Liu (a senior technical PM and community lead for Sharepoint at Microsoft) linked to a few screencasts for learning how to use various features in MOSS2007. In that entry, … more
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Outlook Calendar as your Windows Desktop
In a Channel 9 conversation, user Dr. Herbie expressed his long-standing desire to see his Outlook calendar as a desktop wallpaper. This, I admit, has never once occured to me. The nice thing about … more
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Exposing add-in errors in VSTO for Word 2007
One of the most annoying things about writing add-ins for Office is that it tends to swallow any and all errors that occur. All exceptions are silently thrown into the trash heap without even a … more
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VSTO for Outlook 2007 - Building the Add-in (part 2)
Writing the Outlook add-in described in my previous post was composed of the following steps:1) Creating the projectAh, the wonders of VSTO. Saving us all the unnecessary hassle of adding COM … more
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VSTO for Outlook 2007 - New Features, More Fun (part 1)
IntroductionOutlook has always been a bit of a latecomer to the VSTO game, being a step behind and a version later than Word and Excel. I'm glad to see that with Outlook 2007 and VSTO 2005SE … more
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File Properties in Word 2007
A client asked me the other day what happened to File->Properties in Word 2007. They simply couldn't find it.In the Beta1 TR, I remember it was confusingly located on the Status Bar (!) – … more
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Outlook Miscellany: Erasing a name from the Autocomplete Cache
The drop-down list of names that Outlook gives us to auto-complete a name or address being written is stored in a file called <ProfileName>.NK2 in our Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook … more
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DatePicker Blues.
I'm really surprised at how hard it is to find a good DateTimePicker control that meets all our requirements: 1) Must suppost null dates, like the Due Date datepicker in Outlook tasks.2) Must be an … more
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IBF Debugging
The hour is late, so I will be brief. If you want to debug an Office 2003 IBF solution, you must have C++ installed as part of your VS.NET 2003 installation. If you click on "Build Solution and … more