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Add items to a Word document using C#

I thought I had found the promised land. Then I tried adding more than one item to a blank Word document using C# and I realised it had been a mirage all along. I simply wanted to create a blank document, add a line of text, followed by another, followed by my table. I was flummoxed by the Word.Range object – and I’ll go into detail in a bit – but here’s the solution: More »

Add a table using Word Interop and ConvertToTable

The .NET Framework allows us to do many things with relative ease but the main cost is often the time taken in finding a decent example to learn from. I experienced pain when I wanted to create a Word document programmatically and add a simple table to it. But I got there in the end, and this is how I did it. More »

IE6 Compatibility VPC IETest Password Is P2ssw0rd

I just downloaded and installed the very useful IE6 Compatibility Virtual PC [IE6-on-XP-SP3.exe] from Microsoft. Within minutes of starting the machine and getting distracted, the screensaver kicked in, locking the machine until I entered the relevant password for the IETest user. The password is P2ssw0rd. More »

URL Editor

On a few occasions recently I’ve had to deal with long URLs, or more accurately, URLs with long querystrings. Each time it was a chore: strings that are a few hundred characters in length are unwieldy, hard to read and tricky to edit. So I decided to make my life easier and build a tool. More »

Path and Filename to Clipboard

Many moons ago I wrote a little helper application for Windows that would allow you to right-click a file in Explorer and get its full path, including filename, into the clipboard. Owing to underwhelming demand I have resurrected it. More »

HTML images using long GET strings

The Problem

You’ve got a piece of code that creates an image in your web page by passing a bunch of parameters in a GET string to some server-side process:

$('tile').src = 'http://img.com/generate.php?a=1&b=2&c=3';

But what do you do when the URL goes beyond the limit? Practically, for cross-browser solutions, the limit is around 2000 characters (thanks to IE), and I recently had to find a workaround when generating images via a WMS. More »

Bookmarklets

Not a day goes by without the need at some point to look up a location on Google Maps (UK). Despite the obvious benefits of the quick search bars in All Modern Browsers, I’ve not really taken to them. In theory they’re a great feature, but I find that they make me think too much. More »

Writing a Win32 DLL in C++ for Oracle extproc

I was recently tasked with writing a Win32 DLL containing functionality to be used by Oracle procedures and functions via extproc. This post describes the steps required to achieve this using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Oracle 10g. More »