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December 2008 - Posts

Monday, December 29, 2008 7:59 AM

It's kind of a slow week for most people, so here's what I'm doing in OneNote

This time of year is usually pretty quiet here at work and this particular year is no exception. In fact, because of our recent snow, the number of people here each day is especially low. I always see this as a good time to get caught up on all the lower
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, December 22, 2008 10:17 AM

A new powertoy (nee test tool) used to find OneNote pages with embedded files

Every so often I'll get a question from someone who has a need to find pages that have embedded files in them. The reasons vary, but when you need that information, it is hard to get with OneNote 2007. The same question was facing me last week as we were
Posted by JohnGuin | 10 Comments
Attachment(s): ON_EmbeddedFileFinder.zip
Monday, December 15, 2008 3:19 PM

Always verify priority when test is asked to complete a task

I was looking around for a "classic case" of a typical assignment the test team gets to discuss when I got an email similar to the following: "OneNote is using hard coded path names in some of its automation batch files. Specifically, these
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:39 AM

Testing my calendar agenda table, and an alternative calendar/planner addin for 2009

Once I made my change to my calendar/planner addin to get the columns to size correctly , I needed to test it. I wanted to make sure that my table was usable on different screen resolutions and did not draw off the page. My test matrix went from 800x600
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, December 08, 2008 8:00 AM

Doing a OneNote demo: lessons remembered and thankfully not learned

I was fortunate enough last week to get to demonstrate OneNote to a large group of people. The demo went well and there were no glitches at all. In the same spirit as my Outlook rule that delays all outgoing mail by two minutes, I have a few rules about
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:18 PM

Staying focused on testing OneNote even while we use it

We talked about a key concept of our testing earlier this week and I think it is worth sharing. Let me start with an imaginary scenario: While working on OneNote, we introduce this type of bug into our product: if you add a table which has an image in
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, December 01, 2008 7:07 AM

Reading the OneNote schema documentation helps prevent bugs

As I was working on the Calendar Page Make r powertoy for OneNote, I hit a problem at one point with trying to get the size of the columns in the table correct. I wanted my table to look like this: Time of Day A really wide column to hold the events Hopefully,
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
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