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APIs new to Windows 7, and other Microsoft operating systems

Dale October 3, 2009 0 Comments

The list of APIs new to Windows 7, and all the other (previously released) API functions can be found right here: Functions by Release (MSDN Library) The PowerSetRequest / PowerRequestAwayModeRequired…

Code Cutting How To Microsoft Office

“Developing For Office – Options and Trade-Offs”

Dale September 27, 2009 0 Comments

According to Bruno Terkaly, you have three main choices: Traditional Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Dates back to all the way to the early nineties. Visual Studio Tools for Office.…

Code Cutting LNME

Sew me a Thread or three.

Dale July 21, 2009 0 Comments

Threading, simply put, is a way for your program to do multiple things at once. Sort of like driving and talking on the cell/mobile phone at the same time. Yes…

Code Cutting Freeware

“Is there any way to schedule a task based on a system event?”

Dale July 7, 2009 5 Comments

… such as an event written to the System Log, or a laptop losing mains power? Windows Vista, or later? Yes, indeedy.  Task Scheduler has this functionally built right in.…

Code Cutting

Windows Live Writer programming is a pain.

Dale June 29, 2009 1 Comments

3 reasons: Most of the examples out there are written in C#. You can’t manipulate your post html source directly. The SmartContentSource.GeneratePublishHtml Method insists on wrapping DIV tags around everything.…

Code Cutting How To

How to find a string in a returned record in a Crystal Reports report.

Dale June 25, 2009 0 Comments

Simple, once you know how. It's even in the manual, if you can find it in the 500 page tome.* In Formula Workshop, under Selection Formulas/Record Selection, "dont want this…

Code Cutting Freeware Utilities

Counting lines of VB6 code.

Dale May 29, 2009 1 Comments

Was asked to analyse a library of Visual Basic 6 to determine the effort required to migrate it Visual Basic 2005/2008. The good news was that most of the VB6…

Code Cutting

More like giving a baby a loaded shotgun.

Dale May 27, 2009 4 Comments

… Yes, let me introduce you to the professional PHP programmer. You see, PHP is like a handgun. On its own, it is simply an inanimate tool that has no…

Code Cutting

The Dismal Swamp of CTOS Generic Print System Programming.

Dale April 22, 2009 0 Comments

"Printer Location, for example, Printer Room or Dismal Swamp, as displayed in the Print Manager" And I felt empathy with that documentation writer, as an print subsystem function I was…

Code Cutting Excel How To vbscript

“VBA? You wrote VBA code for that?”

Dale April 20, 2009 4 Comments

exclaimed a colleague. “Is that like Visual Basic?” Well kind of, VBA is Visual Basic for Applications.  Which is a scripting language for the Microsoft Office system. I’d had a…

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