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Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:37 PM

VBA Take Two: Responding to some comments

The other day, Karl Levinson added a comment to my previous entry about the Outlook OM. He raises some interesting points, so I thought I'd reply here. (Karl, please don't take any of this personally; I hear the same arguments from people all the time,
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:44 AM

Holidays and Airlines

I'm heading out on holiday (err... "vacation") in mid-May to see family and friends. I'll definitely be in London and Dover, England; I will almost certainly make it to Cologne, Germany and I'll probably make it to Brussels, Belgium for a couple of days
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Friday, April 16, 2004 11:46 PM

Why does Outlook have an OM?

This one could be controversial ;-) In a recent comment, Edd James (note to Edd: that link gives a 403) asks why Outlook and Excel " need this ability to run scripts/macros [?]" First I want to clear up a common misconception about Outlook: Despite what
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Friday, April 16, 2004 1:20 AM

Clear Plastic Cups at SEATAC

This is about airport security, not code security ;-) Raymond has a blog today about airport security , and it reminded me of something that always puzzles me. The Seattle / Tacoma International Airport has, as you can probably imagine, several STARBUCKS®
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Friday, April 16, 2004 12:36 AM

Top 5 List

Julie is looking for input on a Top 5 Good / Bad Things about VSTO list over on her blog. If you have any others to add, surf on over and help her out ;-)
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:02 PM

Windows Update Day

It's the second Tuesday of the month... That means it is time to go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download the latest patches : · MS04-11 - Windows fixes · MS04-12 - RPC/DCOM fixes · MS04-13 - Outlook Express fixes · MS04-14 - JET fixes Apparently
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:19 PM

Follow up to "Don't trust that data"

Eric makes some good points in a comment to my last post . Nevertheless, the forces of evil within me compel me to respond anyway. (You should have blogged it, Eric ;-) ). Eric's main point is that the employee doesn't need to use formulas in order to
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 1:21 AM

Installing software

Jeff , I promise this one will be short! And any MacOS fans reading , I am not dissing your OS! I am simply pointing out that this problem has no easy solution :-) A couple of days ago I wrote about the problems we face with usability versus security
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Monday, April 12, 2004 12:04 AM

Don't trust that data!

A while ago I wrote a couple of blog entries on code repurposing and some mitigations , and one of the main causes of that problem is that developers inherently trust data. The text box caption says Name , so it's always gonna contain the user's name,
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Monday, April 05, 2004 3:41 PM

Another VSTO Blogger

Eric Carter has started blogging! That makes two out of our three Erics on the VSTO team blogging. Eric Carter works on building the next-generation programming model for VSTO 2 and doing an amazing array of other really cool things. And if you happen
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