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Refresh page after edit in InfoPath
01 November 05 10:26 AM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

When using InfoPath for editing data in you webapplications you run into a couple of tricky situations when beeing used to plain webdevelopment. One of these scenarios is when you want your webpage to refresh after having edited a record in some datasource...

Filed under: .NET General, Office System

Complete set of Custom Prerequisites available
26 October 05 07:18 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

Seems like VSTO Outlook deployment just got easier. I now have Custom Prerequisites for Office 2003 (SP2), Outlook 2003 (SP2), Office 2003 PIA and the Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Runtime ready. I got some feedback from the community on my previous...

Filed under: .NET General, Office System

VSTO Outlook: The complete deplyment solution
14 October 05 06:30 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

This week has been all about the pain of client deployment of our VSTO solution. I've written a summary which I hope will be the start of the complete solution for idiot-proof installs of Outlook plugins. I'm not quite there yet but I feel I'm pretty...

Filed under: .NET General, Office System

Error using VSTO 2005 Outlook Addin with VS2005 RC1
22 September 05 02:29 PM | madsn | 2 comment(s)

Just installed Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and reinstalled Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Outlook on top to continue working on my Outlook Add-in. When trying to cast a MailItem object i recieved the following error: System.InvalidCastException: Unable...

Filed under: .NET General, Office System

Temporary Release of Outlook Plugin code
23 August 05 01:00 PM | madsn | 5 comment(s)

This summer I got the opportunity to demo a VSTO Outlook plugin at TechEd in Amsterdam. The demo was done on a prototype made as a proof-of-concept for a customer in the preceeding weeks (not actually the night before the demo:-). The prototype was accepted...

Filed under: .NET General, Office System, TechEd2005

MVP Awarded
07 July 05 05:18 PM | madsn | 13 comment(s)

Last friday I got the email. I have been given the honor of the Most Valuable Professional title/award/membership. Today my profile was made public on the MVP site, and I attended the MVP lunch where MVP program manager Sean O'Driscoll gave a good overview...

Filed under: General Opinions/Comments, .NET General, Office System

Get started with VSTO for Outlook
24 June 05 09:47 AM | madsn | with no comments

Get resources for VSTO for Outlook. Visual Studio 2005 makes outlook development easier....

Filed under: .NET General, Office System

COM objects need tight leash
22 June 05 10:48 AM | madsn | 6 comment(s)

When a customer suddenly reports memoryusage on their Sharepoint Server of 300mb increase an hour you tend to show up pretty quick. This happened yesterday. After having installed a range of updates and patches to their server software, something in the...

Filed under: .NET General, ASP.NET, Office System

Some notes on ClickOnce
12 May 05 03:36 PM | madsn | 4 comment(s)

In my sessions on smart clients the past weeks the ClickOnce seems to be the topic that generates the most questions. I'll try to clarify some of the issues here. Application Permissions and ClickOnce One of the main concerns people have is how a user...

Filed under: .NET General, Architecture, Patterns & Practices, ASP.NET, Office System

InfoPath Init Cycle and Dynamic Endpoint urls
09 May 05 07:50 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

I've created a InfoPath form designed to be highly movable. Somewhat against my own principles these forms have more than a few dataconnections and I wanted the reconfiguration effort to be minimal, preferrably zero, when the form was moved from one Sharepoint...

Filed under: .NET General, ASP.NET, Office System