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As most of us already know, Microsoft has for the last couple of years built up an enourmus giant knowledge base about Microsoft Office on the internet. As a consequence it has also become more difficult to navigate around and find the wanted information we are looking for. However, today I discovered...
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If You’re a VBA Developer You should know what best practices is to export data to MS Excel. Two expressions summarize it; Microsoft ActiveX Data Object Library and CopyFromRecordset. However, if You’re a .NET developer and face a situation where You must find a solution to export data to...
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With the release of Excel 2010 Microsoft released a new powerful tool, PowerPivot, to work with large datasets and reports. The beta of version 2.0 has been out for a while and it seems that Microsoft is about to ship the final version soon. Meanwhile, I was pleasant surprised to learn that Mr Excel...
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Microsoft has recently launched a new site that target how to create rich and interactive data mashups in Excel for use on the web. Technically speaking, we use the programming language JavaScript to interact with embedded Excel Web Application’s objects. For basic and small projects we can use...
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Paradigma announced today that they will offer the next version (5.0) of their Valentina Office Server for free. The offer targets certain groups of users, including Small and Medium sized companies, and for certain tasks. Not only that, under the same license conditions they also offer Valentina Studio...
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Introducing the Valentina Database I thought I would introduce the Valentina Database (Valentina DB) with this article and discuss how we can connect to it by using ODBC, both in VBA and in VB.NET. For the last 11-12 months I have been using Valentina DB as an embedded database in all clients’...
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I’m the first to admit that I have moved forward and backward when it comes to stock icons and which icons to use. The UI plays a critical role in all kind of softwares which means that we also need to consider what kind of icons to be used. With the introduction of Ribbon UI [...] Read More.....
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This is an announcement that Siddhard Route (MVP VB.NET) is publishing articles about VB.NET and Excel on a regular basis on his blog. The articles cover several areas on how to manipulate Excel through automation. For more information please see: VB.NET and Excel Enjoy! Kind regards, Dennis Read More...
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This post demonstrate how we can evaluate sheet types and how to copy sheets with VB. In other words, no rocket science. The following procedure is only for demonstration purpose. It shows how easy it is to evaluate what sheet types we have. It also demonstrate how to dimension an object array and how...
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Recently I answered a question regarding how to copy several sheets from one workbook to another. I then realized that it may be of common interest to publish it here. Beside that I’m happy to post an article related to code. Here it is assumed that we automate Microsoft Excel where we open two...
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During the summer Microsoft released a new tool, MSDN English Forum Assistant. It’s a gadget tool and it provides us with a shortcut to MSDN forums, i.e. we don’t need to use any web browser. The tool targets all visitors and makes it easy to ask questions, monitor threads or forums, access...
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In the past it was not common that small tools, for instance add-ins to MS Excel, included any help at all. Many developers thought that their utilities were, more and less, self-explanatory. Today we have become more professional in that almost all kind of tools include help or pointers to sites where...
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The best way to handle knowledge is to make it available to its targeting main group of individuals. Public Q&A forums are one example that both store and regular add new knowledge to the public knowledge base. Another example is Microsoft recently approach to create and maintenance a centralized...
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In my previously post I put in a nice word for COMODO Code Signing Certificate. In this blog entry I will introduce the tool, SignGUI to digitally signing solutions in an easy and smooth way. SignGUI is a graphical front end for Microsoft’s SignTool.exe console utility. It’s free and can...
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During the last couple of years security has become more important. Today it plays a central role in many businesses around the world. As external consults we must be aware of it but perhaps more important is that we support it in a way that actually add more security to their business. Through the years...