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Open XML File Formats at the Office Developer Conference

I recently presented a session at the Microsoft Office Developer's Conference, focusing on the Office 2007 Open XML File Formats, using the new Open XML SDK from Microsoft, and using LINQ to XML to interact with the parts within the document. If you're interested in downloading the content from...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 02-22-2008
Getting a String into a Stream

Working on a demo using the Office 2007 XML File Formats Code Snippets that I worked on a while back, and needed to get a String value into a Stream--the snippet requires a Stream parameter, and I had a ribbon stored as a project resource (so I get it as a string). I tried several different techniques...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 09-05-2006
Recent MSDN Magazine articles

As long as I'm at it, links to recent articles I've written for MSDN Magazine: Advanced Basics: Set Word Document Properties Programmatically At the beginning of another lovely day of writing courseware in mad pursuit of unrealistic deadlines, I received a frantic call from a business partner . He was...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 04-22-2006
More Ado About Nothing (and VB 2005)

I grew up in a world in which you could only set reference types to Nothing. Attempting to set an integer to Nothing would cause a compile-time error. Not so, in Visual Basic 2005 (and maybe 2003 -- I never tried it). I never tried it 'cause, well, I assumed it would fail. On the other hand, when you...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 04-21-2006
Downloads for Recent MSDN Articles

Recently, I co-authored a series of articles for MSDN online with Paul Sheriff , aimed at helping VB6 developers get the hang of working with ADO.NET. Unfortunately, the demo files for the first two articles didn't make it online. I've received several requests for the files, so I've made them available...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 02-27-2006
He's Back! The GridView Control Made Me Do It!

Yes, I know. I am just about the worst blogger on earth. Would you believe that I've been on the road pretty much for three months? I know, you're feeling terribly sorry for little ol' me. Anyway, over the past two weeks I've handled a problem for myself (while recording training videos) and then for...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 12-09-2005
Creating Office 2003 PIA Sample Code Launcher

About this time last year, I got an email from a manager on the Office team, asking for help writing a bunch of managed code samples for Word and Excel 2003. Rather than simply write samples, I thought it would be cool to tie them all together in an environment that would allow you to try each one, as...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by KenG on 04-14-2005
That Clock Thingie I Use in Presentations, or Just Say No to Trig

A few years ago, way back when .NET was new, the VB marketing team contracted with MCW to write some samples using VB.NET to be posted on MSDN. I agreed to write one showing off GDI+, and it ended up being a little clock component that I actually use often, especially when speaking. Many folks have asked...

Posted to In the Minority (Ken Getz) (Weblog) by admin on 04-13-2005

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