re: Getting the Gateway set up

Kathy Jacobs — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:52:59 GMT

John,

You say "other basic tools" - can you elaborate? For example, SnagIt or equivalent? screen recording software for test cases? Any kind of general "where am I in the schedule? tools?

I would also be curious to hear whether you test with any of the OneNote extras installed. If so, which ones?

Curiousity... It's gonna get me one of these days!

re: Getting the Gateway set up

JohnGuin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:19:04 GMT

Hi Kathy,

The tools I keep around in every image are:

Spy++ from Visual Studio. Handy for tracking windowing behavior.

Windiff: again, from Visual Studio

a handful of batch files I have left over to help me navigate around my unique files structure quickly from the command line

And an internal tool named "scopy" which works like a lightweight Spy++ but is limited to copying text out of dialogs.

I also set a bunch of regkeys and other customizations (like Notepad on my Send To menu, turning off a ton of the alerts which Windows fires the first few times it gets started - since I'm always restoring images, this "first run" code gets called many, many times - and custom wallpapers, etc...).

As far as addins go to test with, I use the Copy to Mobile Device almost daily, the Table of Contents addin several times per week, and the text importer rarely. Overall, though, we use this as test cases in addition to "just" using them. When we get new builds of OneNote, they serve as a quick test to make sure we did not break extensibility.

I'm also looking twice at the Favorites toy. I think I can use it to keep track of all the notebooks we use around here. It is a pain to wipe a machine and then look around for the 15 or so notebook links to re-locate and re-open the notebooks with the new install of Office. The Favorites toy might make that much easier...

As far as scheduling goes, I use the terminal server set up in one of our labs. It has all the tools pre-installed on it and keeps me from having to keep them up to date and the like.

John