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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, March 24, 2008 7:44 AM

Top 5 OneNote tips, and a nice little win

A request I get face to face is "What is a way to get more out of OneNote?" I don't think I've ever gotten this in email - must be something about the way people interact. So after a year of using it far more than I ever did before, though, I want to
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:18 AM

Calendar templates for OneNote

I found another blog here which showcases templates for different applications in Office. It's called (in the most straightforward naming manner I can imagine) the Template Blog and they posted some updated for year 2008 calendars at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=CT102633041033&av=TPL000&ofcresset=1
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:30 AM

Some soon to be updated documentation for napkin math

I had an old machine give out on me earlier this week. The memory on it had started giving parity errors, and the hard drive finally went out completely - fdisk simply would not even run any more. This particular machine had been the machine I use to
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Monday, February 18, 2008 7:05 AM

Automation tasks for the OneNote test team

Right now we have a little bit of spare "bandwidth" to complete some automation tasks which have been building up over the last few months. The lingo around here never lets us refer to spare time: we always call someone who has a few free hours to spare
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:51 AM

Some initial results from the "Week of OneNote Powertoys"

I've heard from quite a few people already via email and comments and seen indirectly some great feedback via other blogs on the "Week of OneNote Powertoys." And as usual, I was surprised by the most popular addin: the Task Request from Meeting Notes
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:05 AM

Notebook cleaner and privatizer powertoy

People that publish shared notebooks in some environments have a couple of requests which need to be addressed. First, suppose you are an administrator creating a section or some pages in a "New Employee Orientation" notebook which will be shared with
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:27 PM

Task Requests from OneNote Meeting Notes powertoy

The "Week of OneNote 2007 Powertoys" continues... One of the most frequent requests we hear for new OneNote functionality is "more integration with Outlook Tasks." Frustratingly, it always seems like no two people agree on what this means. A few users
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Monday, December 03, 2007 9:11 AM

Powertoys in development

I dropped a few hints last week about what we (the test team) has been doing recently. And one other hint was my lack of entries for a week in mid-November - I was on vacation. Vacation typically means long travel times, and what better way is there to
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:55 AM

Sharepoint notebook problems and another hint

One bug report we've been trying to track down has to do with sections from Notebooks on Sharepoint servers getting marked read only. One cause has been isolated, and David Rasmussen has the details here . It involves how your computer is set up to use
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Monday, November 26, 2007 8:00 AM

Two new items to track for OneNote enthusiasts

It's been very busy around here. The upside to November and December at Microsoft is that plenty of people start taking vacation time, so there are fewer meetings and distractions at work. That gives plenty of time to get caught up on all the low and
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:49 AM

An easier way to troubleshoot addins for OneNote

I got fed up with attaching a debugger to addins in OneNote. The typical process (as suggested by Dan Escapa) is to have your addin open a dialog when it starts, then attach to the running process while the dialog is onscreen. That got annoying rather
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:29 AM

Table trouble

I had to relearn the lesson of paying attention to details recently. I was writing some code to work with OneNote's table XML via extensibility, and could not get my code to work correctly. After a couple of days of working on this in my spare time, I
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Monday, November 05, 2007 9:54 PM

Brouhaha with verifying my math script during automation week

I tried to get my automation script for payment verification as part of the napkin math area checked in. One of the testers on my team rejected it. Here's why. First, remember the equation I was using: pmt(0.05;36;30000)=1813.033713614259 Ultimately,
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Monday, October 29, 2007 3:02 PM

My first thoughts on OneNote when I came to the team

When I first came to the OneNote team, I got sent links to no less than 15 notebooks, had my monitor "upgraded" from a CRT to an LCD, was issued a Tablet PC, had the COM API dropped on me and had to make the transition from enthusiastic user to tester
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