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Microsoft-Related Links

ieSpell—A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer

A spy-ware-free promise from the website: “Completely standalone spell checker for your web browser. Does not require Microsoft Office or any other third party components.” I am slow to promote more COM-based stuff but it’s not going away soon.

To enable Undo Disks for a virtual machine

As a MSDN guy, I found it novel to cite something from TechNet. But I had to since I am playing around with Virtual Server 2005.

C# Edit and Continue support for Visual Studio 2005

For you Tom Slick fans: Hooray. Microsoft is making a Thunderbolt Grease Slapper.

Dsofile.dll lets you edit Office document properties without Office

“You can use this in your custom applications to read and to edit the OLE document properties that are associated with Microsoft Office files…” More here.

VBScroll

“VBScroll solves the problem with mouse wheel scrolling in Visual Basic IDE and VBA editor…” More here. I do find this a problem in the VBA IDE—but I expect never to work seriously with VBA ever again!

Microsoft Office Project

This page appears to have collected all of the useful articles about Project. Nevertheless, the last time I checked Project Server still uses ASP files! This Office team is mired in technology from the late 1990s. I am sure that they do not find this situation pleasant.

Office 2003 Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies

Since I am writing .NET code against VSTO 1.x, I may have to keep this download in mind.

Windows 2003 Terminal Services

Another operations article! I often forget that Terminal Services Licensing is installed separately—not from the Manage Your Server thingy.

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