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April 2008 - Posts

StrCmpLogicalA

Due to a policy around supporting and encouraging internationalizable software, there are certain system APIs which only have a UNICODE version (functions typically with the W postfix). One example which is missing the plain old ANSI version is the StrCmpLogicalW Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 11:41 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Validating a company email alias with Outlook

Most of the process related tools we use (bug databases, work items, test cases, etc), will keep track of owners by their email alias. Unfortunately, if someone's alias changes (such as transitioning from contractor to Full Time) or they leave the company, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 10:36 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Automating DOC to PDF Conversion

The COM object model exposed by Microsoft Word gives us the power to save any document which Word can recognize into a PDF file (as long as you've downloaded and installed the XPS and PDF exporter first). And it turns out that programmatically converting Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 10:16 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Automating GIF charts from Excel

Using the COM object model exposed by Excel, we can programmatically open files, generate graphs, and save them as stand-alone image files. Handily, the functionality provided by Excel gives us a simple way to generate charts and graphs when you need Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:33 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Get Your Message Across: A Note on Creative Email Communication

I've created and emailed out many automated status reports during my career at Microsoft, consisting of everything from bug reports, to team status mails, to stress crash/uptime reports. And I'm sure that many of them immediately went into the trash. Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 9:46 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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