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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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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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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...
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In a previously blog entry, The Orca Tool – A MSI Creator and Package viewer, I discussed the Orca tool for working with MSI Databases. The utility does its work so there is nothing to complain about. OK, one negative thing is that we must download the whole Windows SDK in order to get the [.....
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Recently I worked on a project that required to detect if a 32-bit operating system were running or not. Initially I thought it would be necessary to read from the Windows Registry but it turned out to much easier then that. The following snipped code requires VS 2010 and that we use .NET Framework 4...
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My good friend Will Riley posted last month on his blog a very good series about creating Dynamic OLAP Cube Reports in Excel. The series is in three parts and walk us through the required steps in order to create this type of reports. In addition to its main purpose the series shows clearly, at [......
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From time to time I come to think of how important it is with a user-friendly and professional Graphical User Interface (GUI). Of course, this is something that every developer sooner or later finds out themselves. What matters and what clients usually see is the GUI that the technical solutions are...
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Recently I was involved in a thread at a Q&A forum that discussed how to populate a DataGridView. On its face this seems to be an easy operation, i.e. acquire the data from the Database and in the next step add the data to the DataGridView Control. As with most things; if we have the [...] Read More...
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Background If You suspect that I, at present, work a lot with SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE) databases than You are absolutely right about it. I have developed two larger solutions where SSCE databases are central parts of the respectively solution. In both projects data is exported to SSCE databases...
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This is the third article on how to populate a TreeView Control with Tables, Views and Columns from a SQL Server database respectively from an Access database. The previously blog entries on this subject is: Populate TreeView Control with Tables and Columns from MS Access Database Populate TreeView Control...