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03 May 2006
More VSTO Deployment - AppCheck and PIACheck compiled
A while ago Microsoft released a walkthrough for VSTO deployment to, as Misha puts it; " not remove the pain but help controlling it ". The walkthrough covers all my (less structured) instructions, and improves on security aspects. However the article does provide you with a fair amount of work. The... Read More...
17 November 2005
Validating Sharepoint filenames on upload
Some characters are legal for FAT or NTFS files but illegal for files in Sharepoint documentlibraries. Using the regular upload UI for Sharepoint you'll encounter a rather unpleasant validation error when uploading a file with funky characters. Using the object model will give you a good ole' exception... Read More...
01 November 2005
Refresh page after edit in InfoPath
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 with InfoPath. Typically you've implemented... Read More...
26 October 2005
Complete set of Custom Prerequisites available
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 post and I've updated my article with my findings... Read More...
14 October 2005
VSTO Outlook: The complete deplyment solution
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 close. Read it here! Input and feedback is very welcome... Read More...
07 October 2005
Recycle Bin / Undelete for Document Libraries finally solved
Last week I met Todd from Mindsharp in Seattle and he told me that he'd just created a purely client side solution to the whole undelete / recycle bin problem with Sharepoint document libraries. Several solutions have been posted to address this issue in the past, amongst others Max and Erics article... Read More...
06 October 2005
InfoPath DropDown List doesn't match on items in list
When populating InfoPath DropDown lists with values and then binding the dropdown to a field in your main datasource you'll sometimes see the bound value instead of its corresponding text value in the dropdown on load. It seems slightly confusing given that the entry containing your bound value is actually... Read More...
22 September 2005
Error using VSTO 2005 Outlook Addin with VS2005 RC1
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 to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject'... Read More...
23 August 2005
Temporary Release of Outlook Plugin code
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 and development for production was planned... Read More...
15 July 2005
Google Earth once again available for download
And wow. Now a lot more info is coming up in the views. All major norwegian roads and names are now rendering. Damn it's cool! I just got stuck another 10 minutes. So. In about a week I leave for my summer vacation. Not going too far this year, spending two weeks at our cabin in Kragerø. Most tourists... Read More...
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