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April 2008 - Posts

Monday, April 21, 2008 3:56 PM

OCX Controls Used in VBA-Enabled Applications Cannot be Side-By-Side (SxS) Registered

ActiveX Controls used in Office applications with VBA must have at least their type library registered in the registry to work properly. VBA does not support Side-By-Side (SxS) registration of controls and this may prevent a control registered only by
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:21 PM

ShellExecute fails when called from Internet Explorer Protected Mode

When calling ShellExecute to open an Office document from Internet Explorer, the call will fail with a “File not Found” error if Protected Mode is turned on. The problem occurs after installing Office 2007 Service Pack 1 on Windows Vista. For full details,
Posted by VSOfficeDeveloper | 1 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 4:58 PM

OLE/ActiveX Objects Copied from Office in Remote TS Session are Unavailable on Local Client Via RDP Clipboard

When attempting to copy and paste OLE or OCX objects from Office applications running on a remote desktop to another application running on your local desktop, you may fail to get the data expected, or will find the data is unavailable from the Paste
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Friday, April 11, 2008 2:30 PM

Excel OLE Embedding Errors if you have Managed Add-In Sinking Application Events in Excel

Managed addins/components that sink events on the Application object may cause problems with OLE functionality in that instance of Excel, resulting in errors or possible crash of host application trying to edit Excel embedded objects. Managed addins can
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:49 PM

Excel 2007 does not return shape data using XLL xlfGetDocument command

XLL add-ins using the xlfGetDocument command to obtain shape data may fail in Excel 2007 because a known problem in that version. The bug is being investigated for a fix in a future Excel release. See the following post for more details: Excel 2007 does
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Friday, April 04, 2008 5:24 PM

Changes in OCX Save Behavior for Office 2007 Documents

Office 2007 introduces a new save behavior for ActiveX Controls (OCX) saved directly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. As part of the new Open XML file format, OCX controls can be persisted as XML data if the control supports saving by IPersistPropertyBag
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