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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:35 AM

Fixing up InfoPath exported .mhts in Word

If you export a complex InfoPath view to web archive (.mht) file then edit it in Word, you may notice that Word takes a long time to paginate the document when you switch to print layout for the first time. This is happening because the .mht file has
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 5:53 PM

Handy-Dandy Scripts: closing Word gracefully

Sometimes you may find winword.exe process lingering in the memeory and there is no visible Word window that allows you to close it. Believe me, this mostly likely is not Word's fault: chances are that those ghost Word instances are started by some third
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:17 PM

CSBlogger updates

Haven't touched it for quiet a while, tonight I suddenly feel motivated to fix a few old bugs on CSBlogger and the newest build is now available here . Version Description Credit 1.1.0.38 Bug fixes: 1) Error when retrieving post with an apostrophe(')
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:20 PM

Uninstalling Office updates

Office updates released after today (July 12th, 2005) may be uninstalled like most Windows updates if certain criteria is met. You can find more details in this KB article "Information about the ability to uninstall Office updates" . And the very first
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:41 PM

Taking snapshots for part of a Word document - the new EnhMetaFileBits property

In Word 2003 object model a new property named EnhMetaFileBits for Range and Selection object is introduced. From the documentation, you'd see that it is supposed to help getting the picture representation for a portion of a Word document. Very interesting,
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:54 PM

RSS feeds for KB articles

Normally I don't point people around. This one is too good to miss though: Microsoft is introducing RSS feeds that list the most recently published KB articles for many products. [Update] - I took the time to create the OPML so that you don't need to
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:08 PM

Authoring XML schema (XSD) with InfoPath - Part II

Like I mentioned earlier , it is very easy to use InfoPath as an XML schema editor, with very little extra work: Choose Design a form… from the File Menu in InfoPath. In the Design a new form task pane, select New Blank Form . Note, if you want to derive
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:58 PM

CSBlogger 1.1 is released!

Available now here . I am little bit surprised that CSBlogger didn't get much attention as its .Text cousin SimpleBlogger had. So I decide to list a few reasons why you should consider using CSBlogger as your Community Server blog editor: 1) It provides
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:35 PM

Community Server Issues - Part II

A while back , I complained about the big pain caused by the SOAP header change between Community Server 1.0 and 1.1 web service APIs. Scott was kind enough to explain why they made the change. Still, getting my blog editor to work with both versions
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:54 PM

Authoring XML schema (XSD) with InfoPath - Part I

Recently, I ran across Aaron Skonnard's MSDN magazine articles talking about Contract First Service Development . The very first step of this so called "Contract-First" development process is to create the XML schema. And for that, Aaron recommended Visual
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Friday, May 20, 2005 12:31 AM

Updates on CSBlogger and source code release

Some minor bug fixes are made. As always, the new build can be downloaded here . The source code is also posted there upon requests. You will find the source for the Community Server 1.0 edition under the "CS1.0" sub folder. In the future, I might do
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:00 AM

Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

Not so recently I discovered a way that can significantly reduce VHD file sizes: I was able to reduce the sizes of all my VHDs down to 100MB or less bigger than what their guest operating systems report. Just today I compacted a Japanese Windows XP SP2
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Friday, May 13, 2005 2:54 AM

Community Server Issues - Part I

Ok, seriously, I have encountered several problems on the web service APIs provided by Community Server during the process of creating this InfoPath blog client . It seems to me the forum at communityserver.org is not very active. Therefore I am posting
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Friday, May 13, 2005 2:52 AM

CSBlogger Take 2

Finally I was able to get CSBlogger also working with Community Server 1.0. In the mean time, a few minor bug fixes are made to make both the blogs.msdn.com and the CS1.0 edition. The new build is released at the same location here . Hopefully it will
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:11 AM

Here comes the CSBlogger

The download link and other information for CSBlogger, an InfoPath client for Community Server blogs, is now available here . Please post a comment under this post if you have questions or find bugs.
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