There are few technologies that I truly hate and InfoPath is right up there. The problem isn’t necessarily InfoPath itself (okay, yes, I do hate it and it sucks hard), but the misconceptions from many former and current customers and...
Got this strange error today with an Excel add-in I’m working on:
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The customization cannot be installed because another version is currently installed and cannot be upgraded from this location. To install this version of the customization, first use Add or Remove Programs to uninstall this program |
Now this seems pretty straightforward, right? However, the add-in doesn’t show up in the Add/Remove programs menu! No amount of clean solution or rebuild would resolve this...
If you’re trying to get all of the content controls in an OpenXML document, the most obvious way to do it would be:
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// Get the document instance WordprocessingDocument document = ...; // Get all of the SdtBlock elements document.MainDocumentPart.Document.Descendants<SdtBlock>(); |
But this will only get you some of the content controls. Basically, it won’t return any...
For a recent prototype, I was tasked with building a solution to allow authors to create “standard text” entries in SharePoint 2010 which could then be re-used by authors. One of the challenges was trying to figure out the best...
I encountered an interesting problem while working with our FirstPoint Office add-in (one of the many joys of working with the Office API!). In this case, a call to ActiveDocument.CanCheckIn() would return true, even when the value was clearly false. Testing...
Okay, maybe “death” is a bit severe. But certainly, I think in the next few years (if not months), Office will start to lose marketshare…significantly. Now don’t get me wrong; I love Office (okay, not really, but I work with...
As we’re currently mulling a full transition to VS2008 and .NET 3.5, I’ve been investigating VSTO3 and ClickOnce once again. My initial encounters with VSTO and ClickOnce were lacking. With regards to VSTO, I didn’t find anything that I could...
Microsoft has a very powerful set of group policy administrative templates which allow administrators to set configuration options for Office globally for all users in the domain. This makes many development scenarios much easier since it allows you to easily...