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Friday, September 03, 2004 7:22 AM

Code Repurposing and Untrustworthy Data

This is just a generic launching place for four other blog entries, since I seem to send them to people on a regular basis and sending one URL is easier than four :-) Code repurposing · http://weblogs.asp.net/ptorr/archive/2003/10/16/56270.aspx · http://weblogs.asp.net/ptorr/archive/2003/10/21/56296.aspx

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Filed under: VSTO, Security, Office

Friday, July 16, 2004 3:11 AM

A useful regfile for VSTO

Here's a quick post with a regfile you can use to help you test your VSTO projects. Cut and paste the text below into a text file (be careful of line wrapping) and save it with a reg extension. Then open up regedit (as a member of the Administrators group)

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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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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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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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Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:58 PM

Balancing Security and Usability

I'm often tempted to write about viruses and what I think the next "innovation" might be, but then I get scared that I might get put in jail (or deported) should any of my ideas ever see the light of day. (Not that I think the virus writers need any help

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Friday, February 27, 2004 6:54 PM

Andrew Whitechapel's blog

Laugh-a-minute Andrew Whitechapel has started a blog at http://blogs.officezealot.com/whitechapel/ Andrew (like the other Andrew ) hails from the UK, and even though he likes the Pet Shop Boys he promises to try very hard not to mention them. He should,

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:41 AM

Beware of AutoSave and DocumentBeforeSave

One of the cool things about Word is that it auto-saves your work so that if the machine dies or the app crashes you can get most of it back again. One of the other cool things about Word is that you can customise the built-in dialogs -- such as the Save

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Filed under: VSTO, Office

Monday, January 05, 2004 4:24 AM

You can use Excel templates with VSTO 1.0

If you've tried out VSTO (and you should :-) ) then you may have noticed that Word has both Document and Template projects whilst Excel has only a Workbook project. If you were thinking that the reason was because Excel was naughty but Word was nice,

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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:07 AM