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More VSTO Deployment - AppCheck and PIACheck compiled
03 May 06 12:46 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

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...

Filed under: Office System

Validating Sharepoint filenames on upload
17 November 05 09:28 AM | madsn | 4 comment(s)

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...

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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...

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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...

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Recycle Bin / Undelete for Document Libraries finally solved
07 October 05 10:03 AM | madsn | 4 comment(s)

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...

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InfoPath DropDown List doesn't match on items in list
06 October 05 02:30 PM | madsn | 1 comment(s)

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...

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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...

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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...

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Google Earth once again available for download
15 July 05 01:20 PM | madsn | 4 comment(s)

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...

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