What a massive week in Orlando for Office developers. So many sessions, so much new information, it really was a case of drinking from the fire hose! Thankfully most sessions were recorded and are progressively being made available along with the relevant slide decks on https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos If you only have time to watch one session... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando – My top picks and tips
Microsoft’s premier technology conference Microsoft Ignite 2017 is quickly approaching and it’s set to be the largest Ignite conference yet (rumoured to be around 24,000 attendees). OnePlace Solutions – Products that rock this world I’m excited to be attending again with some of the awesome OnePlace Solutions team. OnePlace Solutions is again a sponsor and... Continue Reading →
How to fix mouse cursor disappearing in Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code
This is a problem I have come across each time I build a new virtual development machine with Visual Studio on it. The problem has been around for a few years now and I always have to search around for the steps to fix it each time it catches me. I’ve seen this issue in... Continue Reading →
How to Debug Modern Office Add-ins on Devices (iPhone/iPad) using Firebug
Debugging modern Office Add-ins with current tooling can be quite challenging. Although the technology of the add-ins you write is consistent and conforms to web standards (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), the way the add-in is hosted in the different Office clients makes it challenging to use debugging tools (as the add-in isn’t simply running in a... Continue Reading →
How to Avoid Chrome Security Issues Developing Office Add-in Hosted on localhost
When developing add-ins for Office you are often serving the add-in from a local web server on a URL using the host name “localhost”. Office add-ins also require the web server to use SSL to serve the resources for the add-in. The Chrome security implementation will fire off a security error under most common development... Continue Reading →
How to fix “The operation could not be completed” error adding references to Visual Studio 2017
The Issue Using Visual Studio 2017 and attempting to add a reference to a project you receive an error stating “The operation could not be completed”. The Solution It seems that to bring up the Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio 2017 the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.11.0.dll needs to be regsitered in the GAC. You can follow these... Continue Reading →
How to compare the MAPI property differences between Outlook emails
I was recently working on extracting mail from Outlook to an .msg file and later importing the .msg file back into Outlook. I was concerned that some of the non-obvious properties (there are a lot of non-visible MAPI properties stored on an email) would not be persisted or may change value in the process of... Continue Reading →
How to export multiple pages from OneNote to a single Word document
I needed to find a way to export a number of pages from a OneNote notebook into Word documents. The technique I used and will step through in this post was to: Create a new OneNote section (temporarily in needed) to arrange the pages I wanted to export (one section per Word document I wanted)... Continue Reading →
How to clear the Microsoft Outlook for Mac web browser cache and cookies
When working with Outlook for Mac the content of email messages are rendered in a web browser control that is specific to Outlook (it does not use Safari). So when you have a need to clear any cached data or cookies it is far from obvious how you should go about clearing this cache. I’m... Continue Reading →