August 2006 - Posts
Due to popular demand I added C++ language support to my source code format plug-in for Live Writer . The downloads now have C++ support included. tags: live writer , c++ , source code , code , format , plugin
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I have to confess that I didn't plan to install Live Writer - I was quite happy with blogging from Word (which works really well) - but a couple of people commented on how good it was so I succumbed and tried it out. The instant I saw the "Web Layout"
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In my last couple of posts ( here and here ), I've been talking about the goodness that is Word content controls. In particular in my last post I talked about a quick and dirty VB application I built to allow me to manipulate Word documents, attach Custom
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In my last post I referenced an excellent blog post on modonovan’s blog which talks you through how to use Word Content controls to map to custom XML. This is a really powerful concept – particularly for generating documents on the server – as there’s
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I really like the concept of content controls in Word 2007 for a couple of reasons; robustness and data-binding. They give you very granular control over which areas of a document can be modified, what content is allowed and whether those areas can be
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Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos Actually they’ve probably been there for a while and just escaped my notice. My bad. I was lucky enough to attend the conference back in March and then I was part of the UK Office DevCon in June where I delivered
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For certain fields in my application, I want to set the input mode (usually to numeric – eg for the distance, final mileage and date fields numeric makes most sense). This makes a *big* difference to the experience on the SmartPhone so take the time and
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My business mileage application serialises a variety of data (eg journeys entered, known journey distances etc) to XML which I wanted to store in a sensible location. To keep things nice and simple, I chose to store the XML files in the same location
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While I often feel like throwing my mobile phone across the office for various reasons, it was only last weekend that I realized it had become something of a sport. The UK Mobile Phone Throwing Championships are being held on 20 th August in London. It
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The feedback tool lets you tell us what you like (and don’t like) about Office 2007. You can provide comments and add a screenshot if you like by simply clicking on an icon in your Taskbar.
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It saved me a bit of time at least. Back to my SmartPhone application for tracking business mileage . I’d written the client. I’d created the database. I’d done the stored procs. I’d crafted a web service (or two in fact, one to submit the data and one
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Wow, it seems like only a couple of days ago I installed the June CTP (but then I have been on holiday in Scotland and I’ve got the midgie [warning: potentially offensive language to the faint of heart] bites to prove it) but already the July CTP is available
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