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What it is like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote team and day to day life as an SDET in Office. Plus a few tips for using OneNote and an occasional powertoy.
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OneNote Testing
Fix for ink moving and shifting bug
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
51
Comments
(Update Sep 14): Fix is released on Window Update. (Update Sep 6): Just to bring everybody up to date - we are in the final stages of releasing this fix. I'm extremely sorry for the problems. Please stay tuned. (Update 12 July) Thanks all - we have...
OneNote Testing
A great article about the OneNote Object Model on MSDN Magazine
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
1
Comments
Just wanted to point out this article on the OneNote Object Model was just published at MSDN Magazine: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff796230.aspx . If you are interested in getting involved with writing your own addins, contributing to the...
OneNote Testing
The OneNote Test Team is Hiring!
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
2
Comments
Indeed we are. If you are interested in testing OneNote (and all that entails ), jump over to the job description at https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=18701&jlang=EN and see if you have...
OneNote Testing
One of the reasons the section color addin was easy to write
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
0
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Was that I was able to use the same tree control from the Text Importer addin. Fortunately, the code worked "as is" and I was able to copy and paste it from the text importer into my new utility. There was one change I need to make, though....
OneNote Testing
The text importer powertoy gets updated for OneNote 2010
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
23
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I saw a tweet a few days ago which mentioned that someone would have "no more thousands of text files" now that she was moving to OneNote. I just missed saving a copy of that tweet, but the thought reminded me of a powertoy I wrote a few years ago that...
OneNote Testing
A recap of some of my feedback from my first week on the OneNote team
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
6
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Way back when I came to the OneNote team in November 2006, I wrote a short list of comments and complaints I had with OneNote 2007. We use this type of feedback, along with suggestions from users and others, to help decide where to invest in future versions...
OneNote Testing
More machines arrive
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
15
Comments
Another fun day to come to work. This is a photo of the office of the person that orders our new hardware: Apparently, there was just too much to fit into the hallway like last time. If you look way back at the left, you can see a desk. You can't actually...
OneNote Testing
Getting the OneNote section coloring powertoy to work better
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
0
Comments
Some minor challenges cropped up when I was working on the OSCO powertoy . In no particular order, the first was converting the RGB values from the control from decimal to hex values. The color format string for the schema is in this format: pattern ...
OneNote Testing
OneNote 2007 Powertoy to change section colors
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
16
Comments
Way back in January of 2008 and again in 2009 I mentioned the colors in OneNote can appear much more bright if you adjust the brightness and gamma settings on your monitor. One of our monitors was so out of whack that we even thought we were seeing a...
OneNote Testing
Some quick notes on updating OneNote 2007 addins for OneNote 2010
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
John Guin
7
Comments
I was asked how to do this and wrote up some "down and dirty" notes on what I found works well. Assuming you have a toolbar based addin, here's the steps to get it working for OneNote 2010 (and only on OneNote 2010): Find and replace “2007”...
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