by David | Jan 19, 2012 | Development, Word Automation
I doubt anyone will ever experience this but perhaps my solution might help someone who happens to fall into the same pit of COM-debugging hell as I have. I´ve got some tests where I use Word Automation to start an application and modify some documents. The documents...
by David | Jan 18, 2012 | Development, Word Automation
In this post I´m going to quickly describe a method to call a VBA 6 macro in a Word document from your VSTO add-in and the opposite, calling a method in your VSTO from a Word macro. The method for the latter was supplied in this post for which I can´t take any credit...
by David | Oct 27, 2011 | Deployment, Development
I just recently learned that you can distribute WPF-application web-wise using something called XBAP. You create a project in Visual Studio named WPF Browser Application and you´re on the road. However, there are a couple of things to take in consideration. By default...
by David | Sep 15, 2011 | Development, Word Automation
When developing a VSTO-project you will probably sooner or later run into a case where you need to debug the project in two different versions of Office. One solution is to trigger the start of Word using a debug-setting in the project file: Update 18/8 2014:To...
by David | Jun 29, 2011 | Development
We´d like to unit test everything but sometimes that´s just not enough. Especially when working with third-party libraries which output files of some kind and we need to verify the result. We could use something like this to get a unique name for our temporary test...
by David | Jun 28, 2011 | Development
I (as previously mentioned) use the WPF DocumentViewer for previewing word documents as XPSs. Howerver, as curious users are often more curious then they should be I´ve found that some users wish to copy text from the XPS directly to Word. This gives us some amount of...
