October 2007 - Posts
I was installing VSTO 2005 Tools for Office 2007 and while the setup was running, it came-up with a strange uninstall request. I was asked to uninstall
Visual Studio Team Explorer - ENU. Not sure why! However, I uninstalled the same and the rest of the install went ahead just fine. But any ideas?
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Saw this feature while I was watching a demo and it was quite cool.
The presenter was demonstrating the new blogging feature in Sharepoint 2007 and as part of this demo, Microsoft Word 2007 was used as the blogging editor. To insert some sample text into the block, the presenter typed =rand(3) in the document and some text appeared magically! I was suprised as to what was actually happening and to test this out I launched Word 2007 and typed in =rand(3) and voila, I got some random text.
Looks like this feature has been there from earlier versions too. I searched the internet and found this post: Inserting Random Text and it was interesting to see that you can control the number of paras and sentences in the paras as part of this syntax.
Interesting!
So what have I been doing now? Outside my regular work activities which takes around 80% of my work day away, I just got my hands on the VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC and got it functioning. I got some errors while launching the application which I fixed finally. It was also my first Vista experience and frankly, I'm not yet floored :-)
I'm waiting for the new Katmai release which is due soon and wanted to try out some new features in that too.
I'm keen on following-up on LINQ and ADO.NET Entity Framework and just finished installing all of these and got my first sample running. Planning the spend the rest of this week and next on playing around LINQ.
How did I suddenly get time now? Well, right now am in the US and in-between strategic meetings, there is a lot of time and thus, I can play around technology without having to worry about my regular work (someone back home is taking care of it for me now ;-)). I'm off to Seattle next week for the 2007 Platform Strategy Meeting and am hoping to learn a lot there on Data Access technologies, OBA etc. Am returning back to India around the 21st of this month and hopefully will continue my learning's into LINQ etc.
We recently started a Microsoft Forum at our office back in India and I wanted to present some of this material back in that forum. So I should be back in action!
Yup, its been really a while since I have blogged (almost 9 months). Life is been quite hectic and in my role, I was removed from a lot of hands-on technical reading that I used to do earlier-on and blog about. Fact is, I'm back to doing some technical reading now / playing-around now, so hopefully, I will start blogging again.