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June 2007 - Posts

Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:45 AM

More setup testing

For users who cannot see the button even after following the previous steps, try reinstalling and installing for "All users." Sigh. I wish I had time to work through the nuances of Visual Studio setup projects, but that is outside my realm of expertise.
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Monday, June 25, 2007 9:04 AM

Responding to feedback

I've received some feedback that the toolbar button for the Copy to Device addin is not being shown. I tried this myself and found a couple of cases in which this would happen. First, my tablet has a 1024x768 screen, which is small by today's standards.
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Friday, June 22, 2007 10:11 AM

Feedback on the Copy to Device Powertoy

If you look carefully at the code for the Copy to Device addin (which needs a good name) you will also notice I used Pascal Casing and Daniel used camel Casing. I thought about refactoring the code to be consistent with .net framework guidelines before
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:57 AM

Log file vs. error dialogs

One of the tricks I like to use is creation of a log file while my addin runs. I typically will log any errors the addin hits. In the case of the Copy to Mobile addin, I decided to add some logging to the file and keep track of the pageIDs which have
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:26 PM

Lenovo Woes

I had hoped to go over some of the testing for the copy to device addin, but my tablet (Thinkpad X60t) interfered. Since I got it in January, I've had nothing but problems. It came with bad ram. Blue screened after about a day every day. Sent back to
Posted by JohnGuin | 6 Comments
Monday, June 11, 2007 7:35 AM

Making pages easier to sync with a mobile device

I was thinking of a tool to somehow send selected pages from my different OneNote notebooks to my Windows Mobile phone and went to talk with Dan Escapa ( http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa ) about some design choices I was facing. He was working on a very
Posted by JohnGuin | 13 Comments
Monday, June 04, 2007 11:36 AM

Hardware problems

Well, I had three hard drives die on me over the weekend. My personal laptop hard drive gave out. My Inspiron hung exactly when I inserted a CD to burn a backup of my files. Still, I managed to get my important files off of it by using it in a USB enclosure,
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
 
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