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word PIA + VSTO a no go?

osdezwart — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:35:00 GMT

For an application I am trying to open a word template that contains VSTO code using the Primary Interop Assemblies with code like

Document document = word.Documents.Add(ref template, ref wMissing, ref wMissing, ref wMissing);

and for some reason the template events like startup, activate, open arn't called so my VSTO code never executes. I was already surprissed that I couldn't call functions on my template from my own application but if I can't even load the document in a way that the code inside it runs then the options for VSTO become really limited, am I missing something here?

PS:
this is using visual studio 2005 beta 2 and the 2003 PIA's

MigrateAspNetBeta1App.exe ?

osdezwart — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:20:00 GMT

Hmm when compiling an exising project using the Feb CTP I am getting an error message:

Error 13 Build (web): Error parsing attribute 'compilewith': The CompileWith/ClassWith compilation model was replaced by a slightly different model, which uses the CodeFile/Inherits attributes. A migration tool (MigrateAspNetBeta1App.exe) is available to help with the transition. SomeFile.ascx 1

I can't seem to find MigrateAspNetBeta1App.exe on my machine or using google, did they forget to include it?

Remote debugging, developer bliss

osdezwart — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:50:00 GMT

I've got remote debugging going at one of our clients and all I can say is WOW!

For some reason remote debugging had a bad rep in the back of my mind. And although installing it wasn't very easy due to firewalls and cryptic error messages, once it worked I fixed 5 bugs in 5 minutes. They were bugs related to timming issues with the SQL Server, they only happended at the clients enviroment because their server is optimissed for this application and our development server runs some other things as well.

My project manager now logs in using VPN/Remote desktop and breaks the application while I am connected with the debugger in a different VPN/Remote desktop session. Instead of having to reproduce the bugs at our end after a "vague" description of the steps to follow I can see what happens instantly, it's just pure *bliss*

I want to thank Gregg Miskelly for his help on diagnossing why the remote debugger didn't work initially, check his blog for allot of usefull information about remote debugging

Multiple virtual desktops?

osdezwart — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:05:00 GMT

I am looking for suggestions for some virtual desktop software. At work I am working on different projects and I have to change between them prety often. In the past I used terminal services to create a couple of desktops but I can't do that on my laptop. What program do you suggest?

Yukon/Team server problem

osdezwart — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:26:00 GMT

Since I had such a good experience getting help for a problem by posting here I thought I would try again.

I am trying to get a demo of team server going. I have set up 3 virtual machines running windows 2003 enterprise edition. I installed yukon beta 2 on one of them. I am trying to install team server on another one but I can't connect to the database server. I can ping the server, but the database isn't reachable for some reason. It won't show up as a network server in SQL Management studio either. Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong? (Yes TCP/IP is enabled)

HTML Mail image problem

osdezwart — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:50:00 GMT

I am trying to send a newsletter in HTML format. It shows fine on outlook express, but outlook 2003 doesn't show any images (not even the can't load image image, and no it's not the block images setting).

Anyone have any clue what might be the problem?

Thanks in advance

Why shovel opperators shouldn't program (and vice versa)

osdezwart — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:53:00 GMT

a picture is worth a thousand words...

It's official

osdezwart — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:40:00 GMT

This post about looking for an internship really worked out. I am gonna do my 100 day internship at Variomatic, signed the papers today so it's official.

I'll be working as a web developer with (you guessed it!) .net. Really looking forward to it, starting the first of September. So come back then, the story continues...

Great online comic

osdezwart — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:30:00 GMT

http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/ for your daily dose

Is that part of the Microsoft interview process as well?

~~P.S. The next post will be technical I am finishing the first public release of the beatnik.net compiler (bdnc) more on that later.~~

Nice video on msdn tv and dust off the clippy code!

osdezwart — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:25:00 GMT

I've just watched the Whiteboard with Anders Hejlsberg video on msdn tv. Great stuff! If you work with C# and haven't seen it yet, go there now!

Small request for the visual studio / visual C# team: dust off the clippy code from office and put Anders Hejlsberg inside visual studio!

OK thats all for now, thank you for listening

Back from vacation in France. Looking for an internship

osdezwart — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:35:00 GMT

Just got back from vacation in France, it was great I got to demolish my parents garden with one of these:

(That's not me on the picture. It's a demo picture from the http://www.kubota.fr website)

I'll put om some pictures in the future (I left my laptop with the pictures there because I didn't feel like bringing it here and taking it back again in a few days). One of the pictures will be great to make my point to leave work to professionals during my future presentations.

I am looking for an internship of about 5 months for my computer science studies. So I am calling out to all of you! Anyone know of a place where I could work with .net/c#? I am currently living in Amsterdam and I am willing to relocate abroad. The following table is an overview of the skills that I picked up during severally free lance projects for among others Reed Elsevier and Highlygraphic inc and 4 projects during my studies each spanning about a quarter of a year with 5 other team members.

Programming languages
-C#
-JAVA
-PERL
-C/C++

Misc
-UML
-SQL
-FCO-IM (allot like ORM)
-HTML
-CSS

Development methodologies
-DSDM
-Extreme Programming

Languages
-Dutch
-English

Ok so much for all CAPS acronym galore. Please contact me if you know of anything

Whidbey refactoring reviewed

osdezwart — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:42:00 GMT

Nice overview of the refactoring support in whidbey. That is it for me, signing off for another vacation in France.

Productivity killers

osdezwart — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:05:00 GMT

poke the penguin but watch your hands

3D pong great game! Need to install shockwave for it to work

practice your drunken stride I've gotten to 86 meters

TechEd in the tram

osdezwart — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT

On my way to a teacher to talk about my upcoming internship I saw TechEd Europe in the tram twice. First announcing the tram 11 will ride for TechEd. And the second time was this flashy animated movie saying TechEd, without explaining what it is, kinda weird. I think most people who use the tram in Amsterdam don't care about TechEd so why advertise there?

Speaking of trams yesterday the trauma helicopter landed on the street I live in. It was the second time in about a month, and then it hit me, it's one of the very few places it can actually land. Most places big/wide enough to handle a helicopter have the power lines for the trams making it impossible to land there. So for all those city architects of you think about this when deciding between a metro system and a tram system.

TechEd US slide grabber

osdezwart — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:17:00 GMT

I joined the “Dutch .NET Developers Alliance” yesterday, import the OPML for your RSS reader here.

Paul Gielens who is also in the alliance posted a great console application that will save you from right click save as.... strain when downloading the power point presentations. Download it at http://weblogs.asp.net/pgielens/archive/2004/06/28/168091.aspx, it's even got a bug fix, good job!