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Programmatically adding a style assumes number format as “General”

Pranav Wagh — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:49:36 GMT

Hello All, Few days back, I’ve seen an interesting scenario; If you add a “Style” programmatically, without specifying the number format as anything, it is assumed to be “General”. Something...

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Dear readers - My Windows Phone 7 App is Live!

Pranav Wagh — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:24:29 GMT

Hello All - I hope all of you've been doing fine! fantastic! supperb! well .. I am here to give you one more reason to feel more fantastic! supperb! and more empowered!! My Windows Phone 7 App is...

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Excel RTD Caching–Memory usage

Pranav Wagh — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:24:26 GMT

Microsoft Office Excel provides a worksheet function, RealTimeData (RTD). This function enables you to call a Component Object Model (COM) Automation server provides you with a way to...

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Manipulating Office document contents – On Steroids!

Pranav Wagh — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:29:00 GMT

Yes, after a long time .. sorry, whatever .. let’s not spend time on reasons. Not going to help anyone … Here is the new story: How many time did you try manipulating document...

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How to find all the strings in the thread stack?

Pranav Wagh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:23:32 GMT

To find the all the strings in the thread stack, you’ll need to know about a few things before we jump into code, in windbg there is something called as pseudo registers, and they are very handy to...

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Blog maintenance going on …

Pranav Wagh — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:00 GMT

Changing a few things here and there, working on the bar below the blog, and adding a comment moderation system, thinking about disqus, and as usual as it's not my hosted blog I'll need to fight a...

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Replacement of !runaway

Pranav Wagh — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:28:00 GMT

!runway is a beautiful command which tells you the time taken by specific threads, very useful in hang scenarios, this is the sample output of the command: 0:004> !runaway User Mode Time ...

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News: It’s the time to change my “about” page, I am a Support Escalation Engineer now

Pranav Wagh — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:48:07 GMT

Hello Friends, Today, let me try to give you a few tips about my favourite part of job, dump analysis. All of us know that a problem is the mother of all inventions (or reinventions). So, what’s the...

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Project Natal: A move from “Video Gaming” to “Video Sporting”!

Pranav Wagh — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:29:01 GMT

Yes .. that’s how I look @ it .. check it out if you don’t believe (or if you do ..) and spread the love! Xbox: "Project Natal" Home and here is what my fellow bloggers are saying about it...

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So, do you really know the difference? Try blindsearch!

Pranav Wagh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:57:12 GMT

I haven’t seen the algorithm to generate three anonymous columns, but if it’s using random numbers, I’d not call it blind search, I’d call it double blind search engine perception, experience...

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How to take the dump for a process which crashes randomly?

Pranav Wagh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:34:30 GMT

Got this question a few times this month … to go in a bit detail, the question is, how to I take the dump of winword (or any other exe for that matter), let’s say that you are...

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Under The Hood: Excel hung on SaveAs

Pranav Wagh — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:49:38 GMT

I am sorry for being inactive for a long time, as a “come-back-gift” I am starting a few new sections on my blog, I am sure you’ll enjoy ’em all. This post marks the beginning of series named “Under...

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OpenXMLDiff vNxt - Just an easy way of doing things

Pranav Wagh — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:31:00 GMT

Hello Guys – As I told you in my previous blog post, that I am working with Eric on the updated version of OpenXMLDiff . The good news is, I have it ready! It’s uploaded on...

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Here is a news, I am acting as a volunteer

Pranav Wagh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:07:19 GMT

Surely, I am volunteering for something that we (you and me) like playing with Here is the story – I really liked the utility that Eric is working on...

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How to get a list of updates

Pranav Wagh — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:25:36 GMT

Today of my team members asked me, how to get a list of Office and Windows updates. Surprisingly, I realized, that there is no easy way to do it (or at least I couldn’t find it ) – finally came up...

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The Open XML SDK download and online docs are now available

Pranav Wagh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:18:26 GMT

Let’s see what the OpenXML guru’s take about it .. Here is full description from none other then …Erika Doug Mahugh: Open XML SDK Version 1 released Look at it … Eric released PowerShell...

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My blog UI might suck for a few days

Pranav Wagh — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:13:39 GMT

Yep. I am working on some changes on my blog and you might see some things broken, out of place or just plain ugly for a few days. Please bear with me for a few days. I am thinking of using a good...

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One more step in the right direction, native ODF support in Office 2007 SP2

Pranav Wagh — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:07:12 GMT

Did’ya see dat! I am pretty exited about these developments , As soon as these this is out I want to play with it and see how can this feature be utilized in Office Programmability scenarios Are you...

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What’s "Works on My Machine" Certification Program anyways ?

Pranav Wagh — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:16:00 GMT

A few of my readers asked me, what’s do I mean by "Works on My Machine certified”, in my previous post . Here is the ans - All of this thing started with Joseph Cooney – He got an...

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Creating a new presentation by pulling slides from a presentation

Pranav Wagh — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:19:55 GMT

You’ll remember that a few days back I’ve posted a code snippet which demonstrates how to create a PowerPoint presentation from scratch using System.IO.Packaging. Here is the next part of the same...

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Word 2007 “Save As Word XML document” and back without automation – 1

Pranav Wagh — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:35:37 GMT

Did you even had a look at new Word XML File? or … like me, you also assumed that it’s going to be same or similar to Word 2003 XML? Yesterday … one of my fellow MSFT was working on Packaging...

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Open XML for primary school goers

Pranav Wagh — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:16:00 GMT

Ok ..I agree! I was not a simple-sober-studious-obedient-goodie-good student. I do remember when I was a primary school goer, whenever me or any of my friends wanted a leave, we almost always used...

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Creating a Open XML PowerPoint presentation from scratch using System.IO.Packaging

Pranav Wagh — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:08:00 GMT

Here is how I’ve got to create this sample – One of my customer had a similar requirement when I tried to search a sample for him to demonstrate, I couldn’t find one (blame it on my searching...

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Couple of issues in PowerPoint 2007

Pranav Wagh — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:30:40 GMT

One of my customer reported a couple of very interesting issues (bugs?) in PowerPoint 2007. If you have a presentation which has a shape with a gradient and you try to find out the color of each...

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Open XML Format SDK April CTP - Released !!

Pranav Wagh — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:36:12 GMT

It's there, Open XML SDK April CTP is released, it's for all of us - the proud office developers :) I was waiting for it! Erica - thanks a lot ... (in fact I was searching for this last week, but...

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