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09 September 2010
Display a PowerPoint deck in SharePoint 2010 using Office Web Apps
During a SharePoint 2010 training class i was conducting this week we were implementing a case originally created for MOSS 2007, where the author of the case had added a requirement to show a PowerPoint deck in a SharePoint page. This threw me a bit off, as I couldn't remember seeing any direct functionality... Read More...
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20 May 2010
Creating Office add-ins with VSTO with Add-in Express
Back in 2005 I wrote several posts addressing challenges related to building and packaging Office add-ins with VSTO. We managed to complete a few very cool add-ins for customers, but I have to admit that we did have our share of problems. There are still developers out there who are faced with the same... Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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26 October 2005
Complete set of Custom Prerequisites available
UPDATE: See this post . 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... Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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