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The title of my previous post was taken directly from on of my customers comment..to be frank even i was not very delighted when i came to know that ServerDocument.AddCustomization will automate office.. so the question to all of the VSTO/Office gurus around is ... if there is any other/better solution...

Here is the story ! i wanted to add a customization assembly to my document on the fly the scenario is .. i will have an ASP page that will enable users to upload a few documents, now..on the server i will add a customization assembly to it using "ServerDocument.AddCustomization" ..looks simple .. but...

Got an intresting case a few days back.. which lead me think about the ways of generating thumbnails of all the pages of a document. Now, why would you need it ?? well ..i don't know.. maybe you have an app and you want users to click on the thumbnails of a specific page to load it .. depends, like everything...

Well, by dynamically i just mean that i don't know the path of the dll (or the path will be decided at runtime). now the problem is; you need to add a declares statement to use a function from VB but you don't know the path so there is no way in which you can give this statement unless the dll is going...

I just came across a cool article that explains how you can achieve many tasks using geofencing that seem un-doable otherwise.but what the heck is geofence ? yeah .. read on according to the article .. A geofence is a geographical region that you define and use to trigger an event when a user enters...

Were you ever able to do all of the above at the same time ..? well .. now you can .. We've just launched a very cool contest that challenges developers around the world to design Office business applications that support non-profit organizations and encourages them to learn more about the 2007 Microsoft...

I bet life is learning, and there is a good saying in IT "you stop earning; when you stop learning" (never heard this before..ok i admit i made it up :)). A few days i came across a problem simply i wanted to have a small tool that can archive all the XLS & DOC files which are more then 1 month old...

I have seen many people asking same question. "which type of addin should i use for office".. well the answer is always same ..depends ! what is your requirement ? so i planned to have a series of posts explaining which addins should be used and where. Here are a few sample questions and offcourse their...