Symptom Managed code solutions that use classes from the System.Data or System.Xml name may encounter a System.OutOfMemoryException when working with large datasets, XML files, or repeated operations that involve hundreds of (xml) object serialization calls from standardized components. The exception...

Symptoms You may encounter an OLE_E_CLASSDIFF (0x80040008) error on calls to OleRun or IOleObject::DoVerb when attempting to bind to a Word document saved as an OLE link. This occurs when the following conditions are true: The document linked to is a Word 97-2003 document (*.doc). Word 2007...

Summary When you build a Microsoft Office SharePoint (MOSS) server farm and configure it for load balancing, you may be unable to open Office documents for edit access (collaboration) if you are using a Cisco Content Server Switch (CSS) with Layer 5 content rules applied. From the client, you may...

Symptoms If you create a document library in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) with a custom column of a Date/Time data type, and you store Office 2007 (Open XML) documents in that library, if the files are opened, edited and then saved back to the SharePoint library using Office XP or Office...

Summary When publishing an InfoPath Form Template (XSN file) to multiple servers (i.e. a development server and a production server) and you are promoting fields from the InfoPath data source to be created as columns in SharePoint, those fields may get recreated each time you publish the XSN. More...

Summary Office 2007 introduced new file formats for common document types (Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations), and has standardized on new MIME types for each new format. The following information is provided to document the new MIME types and their proper use in HTTP...

Summary The following error occurs when opening a read-only Visio Drawing from an ODMA Document Management System (DMS): An error (110) occurred during the action Open. Visio cannot write to the file. The file has been opened read-only. This problem occurs if the NTFS read-only file...

Summary ActiveX Controls used in core Office Applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Visio) are bound using ITypeInfo from an associated type library (*.tlb) and extender library (*.exd) when created or loaded inside a document or macro dialog form (VBA UserForm). VBA enables programmability...

Summary When calling ShellExecute to open of Office document from Internet Explorer, the call will fail with a “File not Found” error if Protected Mode is turned on. The problem occurs after installing Office 2007 Service Pack 1 on Windows Vista. Cause Internet Explorer Protected mode is available...

Problem When you attempt to copy an OLE object or ActiveX Control (OCX) from an Office application in a remote Terminal Server session and then paste it into a local application on the client machine, you will only get a static representation of the data (typically a WMF metafile) instead of the OLE...

Summary If you build a managed component that loads into Excel's process space, and the managed code uses the PIA (or a custom IA using event delegates) to sink events on the Application object, that Excel instance may encounter problems when used for OLE embedding. The problems include: Being...

Summary Microsoft Excel XLL add-ins using the xlfGetDocument command with the command type 42 to return a matrix of shapes (objects, images, controls) on the active sheet may encounter problems in Excel 2007, because the command fails to return any such information to the add-in. The caller receives...

Summary As part of the change for default file formats in Microsoft Office 2007, ActiveX Controls (OCX) saved by Office applications will be asked to save themselves using IPersistPropertyBag, where the property bag being used is a text-only storage medium. This allows Office to persist the control...

Summary When opening documents from a URL location in Microsoft Office 2007, the Office library can make an HTTP HEAD request to the web server for the opening URL. This request is sent with a User-Agent set to"Microsoft Office Existence Discovery". This call is new to Office 2007. More Information...

Summary Web sites that use the "application/x-msexcel" or "application/vnd.ms-excel" MIME type to open web page content inside of Microsoft Excel may encounter the following warning prompt when the file attempts to open in Excel 2007: "The file you are trying to open, '[filename]', is in a different...

Emailing forms and documents from one user to another is a common way of performing workflows in businesses. Users open attached documents, edit them according to their needs, and then email them to the next user. Some users take advantage of how Outlook opens attachments to make this process even easier...

Summary The Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework includes a lockback policy that intentionally prevents the .NET 2.0 CLR from being initialized to run when hosted in either the Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel process space, unless that version of Word or Excel is Office 2007. This restriction was put into...

Summary An ActiveX control that implements IPersistPropertyBag for property persistence may experience problems with their control string data when control is saved in Office 2007 using one of the new Office 2007 Open XML File Formats (such *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, etc.). If the string contains certain...

Summary When you insert an OLE 1.0 Object into a new document using Word 2002 or Word 2003, the object will display fine on the initial insert. However, if you edit the object and update the presentation data, the metafile displayed by Word may not get correctly updated. So the object appears unchanged...