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August 16, 2008

VSTO: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Outlook Add-in issues

By Craig Bailey

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16August

By now I’m assuming most of you have downloaded and installed Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008. For those who haven’t here’s a few links you may want to note: Before installation If you’ve installed any hot fixes over the last few months you should clean them up first Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool (14 MB) (note: this replaces the original Hotfix Cleanup utility for...

August 16, 2008

PERSONAL: Health and Fitness

By Craig Bailey

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Warning: personal ramblings about my health and fitness (or lack thereof) ahead – nothing technical here. Back at the gym I went back to the gym again yesterday after a month off (not by choice mind you, but due to being really sick for 2 weeks, and then visiting the hospital most nights for the last few weeks looking in on Michele’s father). The gym confirmed what my clothes suggested...

August 15, 2008

VSTO: Harry Miller and the VSTO glasses

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15August

When I first started viewing this video by Harry Miller (on the Microsoft VSTO team) I started to cringe. It seemed a little over the top (and probably clashed with my general sense of Australian humour – sadly to be funny in Australia you usually need to be crude, critical or self-deprecating – just saying…) But by the time it had finished he’d won me over. The reason I really like it is...

August 9, 2008

Visual Studio Gallery

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09August

Thanks to Deepak Kapoor for alerting me to this one – the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery – a list of add-ins and extensions for Visual Studio. It’s been around for a little while now, so you may already know about it. But if not, start here with the list of Highest Rated add-ins for Visual Studio.

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August 9, 2008

SQL 2008 Support in VS2008 SP1

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A nice little interview with Milind Lele by Beth Massi, uncovering some of the nice data sync enhancements coming in SP1 (especially if you are connecting to SQL Server 2008). If you haven’t seen this stuff covered before, then this 15 minute overview is worth watching. But treat this as a ‘what’s possible’ not a ‘how to do it’ video. It covers the functionality nicely, but I’m a...

August 9, 2008

Internet hairdressers

By Craig Bailey

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I’m sure this must be available already, but I haven’t seen it anywhere (leave me a comment if you know of one)… As I was getting my hair cut this morning I really wished I could have been surfing the net (my hair dresser isn’t very chatty and I kinda get uncomfortable looking at myself in the mirror the whole time). Surely it wouldn’t be too hard to have a little LCD screen at each...

August 7, 2008

Advice for would-be CIOs

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07August

I don’t know if you read CIO magazine. I do because I plan on being a CIO in the next 5 years. Of course, I realise that reading a magazine won’t make you into a CIO, but it sure does highlight the skills you need to work on. Take last month’s edition for example. In the Generation Tech article, the following advice popped up (p37 June/July edition): “In part CIOs of the future will...

August 3, 2008

CLARITY: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

By Craig Bailey

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03August

After chatting with a few people about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) recently, it’s clear that the technology is not that well understood (even though, in my opinion, Microsoft have done a pretty good job of articulating it – much better than say OBA for example). So in this post I’m aiming to give a high level overview of VSTO and clear up some misconceptions. As usual this is...

August 2, 2008

Corneliu – Anti-spam email encoding tool

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02August

I’ve been meaning to blog link this for ages, because I use it all the time but always have to go searching for the URL… So here it is, Corneliu’s most excellently helpful Anti-spam email encoding tool. Put in your email address and it’ll return a nice encoded one that most spam bots won’t recognise (sure the smarter they become the less effective this will be, but you’ve still got a...

August 2, 2008

Mojave Experiment thoughts

By Craig Bailey

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The Mojave Experiment has received a fair bit of attention in the last week or so. Some think it’s great, others deceptive. One comment I found interesting was Mary-Jo’s thought that if Apple had done this type of marketing they’d be getting applauded. Maybe. (As an aside, Adrian has a nice little discussion of whether the Mojave results are even valid.) Having pondered it a bit over the...