After researching and finding some good information on the new office add-in I have found the following links that will help anyone in designing them: Build your first excel add-in Excel JavaScript API Excel JavaScript API in detail VSTO vs JavaScript API Office UI Fabric GitHub Library of Office UI Fabric with coding examples Inserting […]
The fileinfo class that is the standard class to use for getting fullname of a file will produce an error when the path is too long. This is a path that windows allows but the class can’t handle the error. More on the subject is described here. After much research I installed the nuget package […]
The documentation is sooo not complete at AWS to get a dB restored from local to the AWS server. The error I had when i ran the stored proc (below) was “Database backup/restore option is not enabled yet or is in the process of being enabled. Please try again later.” These guys got me started, but […]
https://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2010/12/unc-path-naming-for-files-stored-on-sharepoint-2/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/johnguin/2012/06/24/enabling-the-webclient-service-in-windows/ http://www.smartdigitizers.com//other-development-tips/accessing-sharepoint-folders-using-unc/
You have to configure two items in the installer as described below: Increase the Product Version number under General Information and then create a Upgrade Path if not done already. Change the Product Code. Now you can do the following steps below. In order to update a project after it has been installed follow the […]
UPDATE POST RDS trial: OH NO: RDS has no sysadmin rights and the app I need has Stored Procs that need that. So I installed an EC2 instance which is a fancy way of saying “got a computer up and running, logging into it using RDP and installing my own SQL express”. Gee I could […]
Google of course. Here are the links that turned up. I am looking for 500GB – 1TB for a customer. Wikipedia site with a great compare – look down at the paid options Good Article to Read – Google vs Dropbox vs OneDrive Why one guy switched from Dropbox to Google Pricing Dropbox (1TB=$10/mo), Google (1TB=$10/mo), SugarSync (1TB=$55/mo), Box.com […]
When creating an installshield project in visual studio you may want to have a requirement that another visual studio project must be installed. Since the other installshield project has specific registry entries specified, you can define this requirement under the section “5. Define Setup Requirements and Actions > Requirements”. Make sure when you create this […]
When building my VSTO project I got the following error: ” Warning Type library exporter warning processing ‘HplAddinAGSL.Agslo.GetFilesToOpen(#0), HplAddinAGSL’. Warning: Type library exporter encountered a generic type instance in a signature. Generic code may not be exported to COM. AGSLo ” This stems making the VSTO COM visible and the type being using for this […]
It took HOURs to figure all this out and the answer!? (see older post) The issue that we are having is that the VSTO would work initated from the ribbon, but the VBA when you added a “reference” to the .tlb file would tell you that it could not create an ActiveX object or other message saying […]