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Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:02 AM

Finding an easier way to reproduce a bug

We spent a good amount of time trying to reproduce the exact customer reported problem trying to repro the crash in the merge pages addin. Theo and I sent about 8 emails backs and forth, and three testers here donated our time to try to solve this problem.
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:11 AM

What is it with the Netherlands?

First it was Theo Buis reporting a problem with merging pages and now Bart Wessels, a technology specialist in the Netherlands has some insight for us. Bart contacted me a few weeks ago about some of the powertoys I had released on this blog and mentioned
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, August 27, 2007 9:33 AM

The story of the bug with merge pages

Theo Buis found a bug in the merge pages powertoy. He lives in the Netherlands and the addin was crashing when he tried to merge pages. Since "owning" these tools is just as important as creating them - we want to respond to bug reports, questions and
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:31 AM

Yet another OneNote Powertoy

A great part of working in OneNote test is the people on our team. Take Jeff Cardon ( again ), for instance. He was wanting to know what types of addins people were requesting the most. I mentioned the method we tell users to use to make a page a subpage
Posted by JohnGuin | 22 Comments
Monday, August 20, 2007 7:34 AM

Using our powertoys to test OneNote & updating MergePages

----edited info---- Jeff Cardon fixed a crashing bug in the merge pages addin. If you tried to merge pages in a read only section, the addin would crash (although OneNote kept running). You can get the update at http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/mergepages_setup.zip
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 7:29 AM

Bug fix available for Vista users using Windows Offline Files

There is a fix from the Vista team for problems related to synching an offline file to a server and the file getting corrupted. Dan Escapa has the details on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/08/17/onenote-and-windows-offline-files-fix-for-corruption-bug-in-vista.aspx
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:35 AM

Merge Pages in OneNote Powertoy

Time for another useful powertoy! This addin, written by our own Jeff Cardon, merges selected pages together. It is about as simple as it sounds: select the pages you want to merge and click the merge toolbar button. Some notes: there is a popup dialog
Posted by JohnGuin | 65 Comments
Attachment(s): merge_pages_setup.zip
Monday, August 13, 2007 11:02 AM

Getting the Gateway set up

I've had my Gateway for a week, and finally have it set up pretty much the way I intend to use it. It is what we call my dogfood machine. I'll wind up using it for the vast majority of my OneNote use, email, other office applications, etc.. It's like
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Friday, August 10, 2007 2:47 PM

Using the tablet as a tester

Tablet PCs are just great. I did not ever want a notebook of any sort for work since I hate being in meetings and seeing people spend time answering email rather than paying attention to the meeting. I never wanted to be one of "those" people. True story:
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 3:33 PM

Knowing when to say "when" - Goodbye, X60 Tablet PC...

Goodbye, Lenovo Thinkpad X60. In addition to the problems I had in the past, I experienced a new one last week. The lenovo tablet has a sensor in it which determines the orientation of the screen. When a user flips it around, the screen re-orients itself
Posted by JohnGuin | 10 Comments
 
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