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Monday, June 23, 2008 8:51 AM

Office New Employee Training

I was able to attend "New Hire Training" for Office last week. At Microsoft, all newly hired people go through a day or two of training to get used to Microsoft, get your card key/badge and general agenda like that. Mark Russinovich talked about his experiences
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Monday, January 28, 2008 7:41 AM

Using personas to help develop setup tests

Last week I wrote about two different types of testing. One was setup testing : the very time consuming process of ensuring an application installs correctly. The other was using personas to develop tests to ensure people can use our software in specific
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:13 PM

Using OneNote's customers as a basis for designing tests

One of the more easy to explain testing techniques we use at Microsoft to ensure our software meets the needs of users is that of "persona testing." Actually, personas are used to define new features first, so let’s start there. Suppose we wanted to add
Posted by JohnGuin | 4 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 7:24 AM

OneNote Powertoys from the PM team, and a one question survey about them

A few astute readers pointed out I (intentionally) missed a few addins the OneNote team finished last year. Here they are: Search and Replace http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/06/23/onenote-search-and-replace.aspx Send to OneNote http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/15/send-to-onenote-2007-powertoy.aspx
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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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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
Posted by JohnGuin | 4 Comments
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,
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
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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Monday, October 22, 2007 7:32 AM

Everyone should have to work in technical support first

I was on a recruiting trip to Texas last week with some other Microsoft employees. We got to work out of the Microsoft Texas buildings in Las Colinas (in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for those of you not familiar with Texas). Microsoft has a bunch of PSS
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:31 AM

Logs, Lns and Log10: OneNote gets it right

As I mentioned before, one of the areas of OneNote I took when I came to the team was what we call "Napkin Math." This the ability to type equations like 8-4= And getting a "4" when you press Enter or the spacebar. It also works for basic trigonometric
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:33 AM

More lessons learned when taking notes in a class environment

I'm still using OneNote 2007 to take notes on an ordinary differential equations class I downloaded from MIT. As I discovered earlier this week, this is really a stress test of notetaking. Advanced math classes like this are not the "typical" class most
Posted by JohnGuin | 12 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:29 AM

An addin to manage printouts to OneNote

I was talking with Jeff Cardon the other day about an addin I was creating to take slides decks printed to OneNote and break them up into one slide per page. He had been thinking (and doing something) about it as well, and came up with this - an addin
Posted by JohnGuin | 29 Comments
Monday, September 17, 2007 7:42 AM

A Shared Source Object Model for OneNote project

Donovan Lange, a developer from OneNote last release, started a managed code object model as a side project. He happily gave me permission to take his codebase public and release it under the Microsoft Shared Source License. You can get the code at http://www.codeplex.com/onom
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Monday, September 10, 2007 7:58 AM

Testing Insert Date and Time functionality

One of the areas I took over when coming to the OneNote team is the functionality that inserts the current date and/or time into a page. You can try this by typing : SHIFT+ALT +T to insert the current time SHIFT+ALT+D to insert the current date SHIFT+ALT+F
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:59 PM

A good bug report with the Replace the Outlook Sticky Notes folder with OneNote

One of the bugs discovered with the powertoy to start OneNote instead of opening the Outlook sticky notes folder came onto my plate looking like this: Install the addin Start Outlook Open the sticky notes folder Click the folder again Result: 2 instances
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