Windows and .NET Programming
Programming Debugging WinDBG
Building a large text file editor – Part II
In the previous post I created a class that was going to be used as an interface between a large...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 03/02/2012
Building a large text file editor – Part I
The purpose of this series of two blog posts is to illustrate how an editor for large files can be...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 01/25/2012
Monitoring when registry keys are modified
Let’s say you want to see where a certain setting from Word Options is saved in Registry. The...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 11/29/2011
Back to school - Office art geometry
Let's start off with the following observation- the following two shapes have the same Left and Top...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 10/31/2011
Using DDE in C# for Office automation
Looking for some code samples how to pass DDE messages from a .NET program I found out that...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 07/26/2011
Using .NET library in VBA
Three easy steps for exporting .NET functionality to VBA: 1. Write a source file: using System;...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 06/01/2011
Recovering the pictures from a PPT file
The PPT file format is very well documented as per Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise....
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 05/13/2011
Complex editing of XLSX files
Editing Excel OpenXML documents using the OpenXML 2.0 SDK offers better performace and improved...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 04/29/2011
Indenting XML files
The operation of indenting XML files is pretty trivial when using the classes from the System.XML...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 03/17/2011
List styles in Word document with preview
The sample code from my previous post does a pretty good job listing the styles in a Word document....
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 03/14/2011
Listing styles in Word document
When dealing with Styles in Word you can never have too much control. This is when a listing of the...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 02/25/2011
Brushing up on the WPF and Windows 7 Jump Lists
This is just a summary on the new Windows 7 features and how these can be implemented in .NET. There...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 02/11/2011
XML Highlight in RichTextBox
Recently I’ve been looking for some piece of code that would perform XML highlighting in a...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 01/31/2011
Create metafile from icon and label
Going further on the Windows Metafile problematic from a previous post, I’ve created a sample...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 12/22/2010
DLL Injection
In a previous post, I was discussing the idea of adding more events to Excel by adding a window...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 10/22/2010
EMF+ Untangled
A common belief regarding the EMF format, at least as it appears by browsing technical blog posts,...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 08/23/2010
OLElsTool - Working with OLE storages
I’m posting here a tool that can be used for viewing and modifying OLE storage. The syntax is...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 06/03/2010
OpenDoc tool unveiled
After the previous blog posts with the OpenDoc tool, I’ve learned that, while this tool can be...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 06/02/2010
OpenDoc tool reloaded
In a previous post, I described a tool for editing OpenXML documents from a managed context. I've...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 04/02/2010
Working with OpenXML documents
The default format for saving Excel, Word and PowerPoint documents has luckily changed since Office...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 03/08/2010
External links in Excel files
Topic This is a post that contains a tool for analyzing the external links in an Excel Workbook. The...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 03/05/2010
Collecting crash dumps
Introduction This post discusses some basic techniques for collecting a crash dump. To test the...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 03/01/2010
Create Smart Document solutions in .NET Framework 2.0
Creating a managed Smart Document project or Add-in for Office 2003 is a bit of a headache because...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 01/10/2010
WinDBG Tutorial - Part 3
Just short piece of information about Remote Debugging. Remote Debugging actually means connecting...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 09/18/2009
WinDBG Tutorial - Part 2
Items covered - Stack overflow - Stack trace (k) - Frame inspection (.frame n) Code used For this...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 09/03/2009
WinDBG Tutorial - Part 1
Items covered - Attaching to process - Inspecting local variables (dv, ??) - Inspecting last error...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 09/03/2009
WinDBG tutorial - Introduction
Learning Windows Debugging is a rather tedious job not necessarily due to the lack of documentation,...
Author: Costin Boldisor Date: 09/03/2009