John R. Durant's WebLog

While working on my little app to handle the character repeat setting on Windows XP, I came across this gem: an add-in for VS.NET that makes Win32 API gymnastics much easier. The PInvoke.NET Add-in for Visual Studio has a simple UI that connects up to...

One of my friends, Charles Maxson , is a wizard of productivity solution development. He's also an all around great guy. He wrote a killer Research service provider for the Office 2003 Research task pane . Basically, this custom service connects up to...

If you have read my blog for a while, then you know about the app I wrote for my manager . There is an update to the story. He installed it, and it changed the Character Repeat as planned. However, it did not fix the problem. Basically, my app changed...

A co-worker was looking at some code I wrote some time ago showing how to create and XML document from scratch using the DOM. He asked for a succint definition of what distinguishes an XmlNode from an XmlElement . For me, it's one of those things I have...

I have never made it a secret that I am fond of the guys at www.officezealot.com . Headed by OZ kingpin, Chris Kunicki, this site has steadily grown as a great gathering place for developers who target desktop productivity. What's even better is that...

There is great value in delving into detail, of course. With all of the elements in WordML- I have my work cut out for me. But, I am enjoying the journey. The last few posts I have done relate to how lists are spelled out in WordProcessingML. Yesterday...

Alright, in my last post, I sketched out my coming-of-age story with respect to WordML list definitions. You may recall that I mentioned how lists are defined in a template fashion, articulated at the beginning of the document in a <w:lists> element...