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Monday, September 29, 2008 9:05 AM

A quick update on the OneNote Accessibility pass (which hasn’t happened yet)

The accessibility focus effort got moved. I mentioned that we were going to be completing this task a few weeks ago and have received a few emails and comments wanting a follow up. I don't want to keep anyone hanging and figured I should let you know
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:32 AM

OneNote Test is hiring!

We have a position open for a Software Development Engineer in Test. Check out the details at http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=CCDDBD6B-E2F5-450F-BAE3-40FE30DF53AE It's a great job - feel free to shoot any questions my way.
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Monday, September 22, 2008 8:07 AM

Using asserts to help find bugs in OneNote

Of the many different types of bugs testers find in products, "asserts" seem to be the most obvious. Vastly simplified, an "assert" is a piece of code that checks for some unexpexted condition before continuing, and pops up a dialog if those conditions
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Monday, September 15, 2008 7:43 AM

A better fix for the failing OneNote automation script

I did not like my code fix for the error detection routine when trying to detect which file OneNote had loaded twice. To refresh my memory, here was what I initially checked in: SortedList < string , string > loadedModules = new SortedList <
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:44 AM

OneNote Favorites updated with user requested feature

Shu Chen updated his Favorites addin again. You can get the updated version at the bottom of this page. He updated his addin based on these comments from Richard: "...MOVING the OneNote Folder from its position in IE Favorites into Links stops it working
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Attachment(s): onfavorites.zip
Monday, September 08, 2008 8:09 AM

Investigating an automation failure

One of the automated tests we had failed last week and I got the chance to investigate the failure. The first level of investigation was determining if the test script had failed or if there was a new bug that had crept into OneNote. Here's what happened.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:09 AM

Using OMSpy to “fix” the bug with the image rotator

I wanted to show the output of OMSpy in case someone wants to get very bold and use it to update the XML on a OneNote page to work around the limitations I mentioned on Monday with the image rotator . Let's start with a simple image to use for testing:
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