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How to get a list of updates

Today of my team members asked me, how to get a list of Office and Windows updates. Surprisingly, I realized, that there is no easy way to do it (or at least I couldn’t find it ) – finally came up with following code snippets: 'For getting a list of office
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Tip: Getting text from a WordArt Shape

Here is a quick tip - Although you can't get/modify the text from a WordArt Shape using “oDocument.Shapes(n).TextFrame.TextRange.Text”, but we can modify the text using “oDocument.Shapes(n).TextEffect.Text”. Technorati tags: Tips , QuickPick , Word+2007
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Insert from Scanner or Camera

Just I noticed [from a customer complain] that if you have word hosted [embedded] in any active document host, like Excel etc. and you try to do a Insert-> Image from Scanner or Camera, then word crashes. So what resolution do I have for this? not

Here Is A Question!

The title of my previous post was taken directly from on of my customers comment..to be frank even i was not very delighted when i came to know that ServerDocument.AddCustomization will automate office.. so the question to all of the VSTO/Office gurus

How To Load Win32 dlls Dynamically In VBA

Well, by dynamically i just mean that i don't know the path of the dll (or the path will be decided at runtime). now the problem is; you need to add a declares statement to use a function from VB but you don't know the path so there is no way in which

MapPoint : Using Geofences in MapPoint Location Server Applications

I just came across a cool article that explains how you can achieve many tasks using geofencing that seem un-doable otherwise.but what the heck is geofence ? yeah .. read on according to the article .. A geofence is a geographical region that you define

Excel Changes Last Modified Date

I bet life is learning, and there is a good saying in IT "you stop earning; when you stop learning" (never heard this before..ok i admit i made it up :)). A few days i came across a problem simply i wanted to have a small tool that can archive all the

Which Addin Should I Use - 1

I have seen many people asking same question. "which type of addin should i use for office".. well the answer is always same ..depends ! what is your requirement ? so i planned to have a series of posts explaining which addins should be used and where.

USING ADO AND ADO.NET WITH EXCEL: Resources and Known Issues

General ------- Q326548 HOW TO: Use Jet OLE DB Provider 4.0 to Connect to ISAM Databases http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q326548 Q257819 HOWTO: Use ADO with Excel Data from Visual Basic or VBA http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q257819
 
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