Pranav ... Blogging
This blog is all about Office Automation, VSTO, InfoPath and other programming stuff. Remember.. "Real Stuff is Out Of The Box...!!"
Programmatically adding a style assumes number format as “General”
Hello All, Few days back, I’ve seen an interesting scenario; If you add a “Style”...
Date: 07/31/2012
Dear readers - My Windows Phone 7 App is Live!
Hello All - I hope all of you've been doing fine! fantastic! supperb! well .. I am here to give you...
Date: 04/03/2012
Excel RTD Caching–Memory usage
Microsoft Office Excel provides a worksheet function, RealTimeData (RTD). This function...
Date: 09/30/2011
Manipulating Office document contents – On Steroids!
Yes, after a long time .. sorry, whatever .. let’s not spend time on reasons. Not going to...
Date: 06/20/2011
How to find all the strings in the thread stack?
To find the all the strings in the thread stack, you’ll need to know about a few things before we...
Date: 04/07/2010
Blog maintenance going on …
Changing a few things here and there, working on the bar below the blog, and adding a comment...
Date: 01/28/2010
News: It’s the time to change my “about” page, I am a Support Escalation Engineer now
Hello Friends, Today, let me try to give you a few tips about my favourite part of job, dump...
Date: 12/24/2009
Project Natal: A move from “Video Gaming” to “Video Sporting”!
Yes .. that’s how I look @ it .. check it out if you don’t believe (or if you do ..) and spread the...
Date: 06/10/2009
So, do you really know the difference? Try blindsearch!
I haven’t seen the algorithm to generate three anonymous columns, but if it’s using random numbers,...
Date: 06/09/2009
How to take the dump for a process which crashes randomly?
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Date: 06/08/2009
OpenXMLDiff vNxt - Just an easy way of doing things
Hello Guys – As I told you in my previous blog post, that I am working with Eric on the updated...
Date: 07/11/2008
Here is a news, I am acting as a volunteer
Surely, I am volunteering for something that we (you and me) like playing with Here is the story – I...
Date: 06/23/2008
How to get a list of updates
Today of my team members asked me, how to get a list of Office and Windows updates. Surprisingly, I...
Date: 06/20/2008
The Open XML SDK download and online docs are now available
Let’s see what the OpenXML guru’s take about it .. Here is full description from none other then...
Date: 06/11/2008
My blog UI might suck for a few days
Yep. I am working on some changes on my blog and you might see some things broken, out of place or...
Date: 06/08/2008
One more step in the right direction, native ODF support in Office 2007 SP2
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Date: 05/23/2008
What’s "Works on My Machine" Certification Program anyways ?
A few of my readers asked me, what’s do I mean by "Works on My Machine certified”, in my...
Date: 05/16/2008
Creating a new presentation by pulling slides from a presentation
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Date: 05/14/2008
Open XML for primary school goers
Ok ..I agree! I was not a simple-sober-studious-obedient-goodie-good student. I do remember when I...
Date: 05/06/2008
Creating a Open XML PowerPoint presentation from scratch using System.IO.Packaging
Here is how I’ve got to create this sample – One of my customer had a similar requirement when I...
Date: 04/28/2008
Couple of issues in PowerPoint 2007
One of my customer reported a couple of very interesting issues (bugs?) in PowerPoint 2007. If you...
Date: 04/23/2008
Open XML Format SDK April CTP - Released !!
It's there, Open XML SDK April CTP is released, it's for all of us - the proud office developers :)...
Date: 04/21/2008
Responding Armagan - Display Thumbnails For Every Page Of A Document
Here is one of the question from one of you regarding the contents on Display Thumbnails For Every...
Date: 04/15/2008
Tip: Getting text from a WordArt Shape
Here is a quick tip - Although you can't get/modify the text from a WordArt Shape using...
Date: 04/14/2008
How to use get the HTML contents of the document using IDataObject
Sure, I know there are many ways of doing it - You can save it as HTML and then read the HTML file...
Date: 04/08/2008
DIS29500 is now IS29500 ... Open XML Wins! thanks everybody!
Yes ..really thanks everybody, people who were "for" and people who were "not for". I believe that...
Date: 04/03/2008
How to do a "Save Copy As" In Word
Ever wondered how can you do a "Save Copy As" in word? Or why it's not there? well ... I don't know...
Date: 04/03/2008
Don't do it ...it's done!
Did you want to make - - A graphical treeview-based editor/VS addin for examining and editing Open...
Date: 03/17/2008
Opening it all .... Office file formats are under OSP and YESOOXML
Wow ... great one, here are the details -...
Date: 02/15/2008
MSDN Code gallery launched ... it's the time to port the samples there
The MSDN Code Gallery is a great place to put any sample projects you may have to help the developer...
Date: 01/29/2008
Yeppp! Source code for the .NET framework libraries!
I know you knew it before and I know it's a old story, but the info is sooooo cool that I can't...
Date: 01/20/2008
Office 2007 SP1 has arrived .. enjoy !
Were you waiting for the SP ? ..available for installation here. Have a look at...
Date: 12/11/2007
Stay tuned for some good OpenXML stuff
I've got opportunity to work on some really really challenging OpenXML cases, looks like you'll get...
Date: 10/02/2007
Came to office for blogging ..but finally ended up playing with my new mobile
So ..sorry :( no post for today .. Just wanted to let you guys know that I am playing with a new toy...
Date: 10/01/2007
Command-line, the old beast ..
If you come from a oldies group (I don't mean the age ..please! ). I mean ..if you've been into dev...
Date: 09/27/2007
Mails that I really, really don't want to receive - 3
I really don't want to bother writing a lot on this - you guys already know this and use it day in...
Date: 09/26/2007
A great WebCast by Doug ! don't miss it ..
As we all know, SP3 was released on Tuesday, 9/18. SP3 contains many security updates for the Office...
Date: 09/25/2007
Mails that I really, really don't want to receive - 2
Here is one more - -------------- MAGIC #2For those of you using Windows, do the following:1.) Open...
Date: 09/25/2007
Use server capabilities of VSTO ..(and you'll need to play a bit with IIS)
This was one really really interesting case that I handled a few days back. A real long case with a...
Date: 09/06/2007
Were you wondering why did I change my blog to full feed ? Here is why ..
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Date: 08/27/2007
Consideration while installing Outlook 2007 without Word 2007
OK..I know the stuff below looks SDKized ..because I pulled it up from a document, just for an FYI...
Date: 08/24/2007
Today is one of the most important day for India - I'd love to share a few thoughts
On this great occasion, I would like to share with you all some of the great quotes by Mahatma...
Date: 08/14/2007
Word 2007 Mailmerge with some label types doesn't give expected output
A few days ago I encountered this issue and surely it did take me a lot of time to understand what's...
Date: 08/13/2007
Connect with me
So, you want to connect with me .. good ! great to know.. believe me its easy ! There are many ways...
Date: 08/10/2007
A few days back I noticed something cool about Vista! did you notice?
So, now you can set different volume levels for different sound sources! that is cool! Tip: to get...
Date: 08/09/2007