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July 2004 - Posts

Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 Available!
Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 is now available! Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9C51D3A6-7CB1-4F61-837E-5F938254FC47&displaylang=en There are two files, here's a description of the differences: Office2003SP1-kb842532-client-enu.exe Read More...
Random Wednesday Posts
It's still pretty early in the morning, but I found a bunch of things I'd like to post up. I have a pet rabbit and someone sent me this link: http://www.local6.com/news/3547722/detail.html . I wonder if I can get my rabbit this big. Probably not considering Read More...
Digital Music Subscription services
Recently, I bought myself a Creative Muvo 2 digital music device. It's a 4 gig device which is way more than I need to store all my CDs at 128 kps. I can also use it as a device to move data around. It's a nice device for me to wait until the portable Read More...
Media Centers and .Text Skins
Portable Media Centers I've been holding out buying an iPod because most of my music is in WMA and I really don't want to rip all my CDs again. I also have a Windows Media Center and the integration with the portable media centers seems really interesting. Read More...
4th type of custom control binding
Ok, I said there were three types of custom control binding: simple binding, stream binding and node binding.... ok, so I kind of lied.... there's a fourth type... sort of... If you don't pick a Value property, then it won't give you a choice of binding. Read More...
Why does my ActiveX control say that it needs to be marked as safe for initializing?
InfoPath custom controls can use a subset of ActiveX controls. This subset must implement IObjectSafety for it to work in InfoPath (you won't even be able to add it if you don't have this). For those writing Visual Basic 6.0 controls, take a look at this Read More...
Custom Control support in InfoPath (Part III - Node Binding)
Continuing (from Part II ) on, we will discuss the third type of binding available to ActiveX controls within InfoPath. This one is called “Node Binding” (which corresponds to the “Field or Group (any data type)“ in the drop down Read More...
Custom Control support in InfoPath (Part II - Stream Binding)
Continuing (from Part I ) on, we will discuss the second type of binding available to ActiveX controls within InfoPath. This one is called “Stream Binding” (which corresponds to the “Field element with custom data type“ in the Read More...
Custom Control support in InfoPath (Part I - Simple Binding)
Over the last year and a half, the InfoPath team has been working on the SP1 release. If anyone's seen the list of features, you'll notice that there are new features with a service pack release. The feature which I've worked on mostly was the custom Read More...
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