Back in the old times when I programmed in VBA/ VB sometimes there was the necessity to use … workarounds. A very popular especially in Excel development was DoEvents. Have a look onto this official sample by Microsoft: ‘ Create a variable to hold number of Visual Basic forms loaded ‘ and visible. Dim I, […]
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Embedding pdf into PowerPoint by usage of OpenXml
So what’s the fun part of mainly working into Azure when you not have to go back to really oldschool coding with OLE? Having worked with these old-fashioned OLE libraries means (again) being able to really worship working into brand-new Azure environment where pretty much everything is moreless clear. I currently write software for Books. This is automation software for […]
Programming and Intuition, Part II
May you read the first part of Programming And Intuition. I promised to add some more experience about that and it didn’t take a long time for getting into a situation again where intuition and experience helped me a lot. This time at a different customer. Certainly it is pretty easy in the Excel ecosystem […]
Programming and Intuition? Come on.
Intuition and programming? Are you serious? Maybe it sounds odd in the first run, but I often have a certain kind of .. let’s say instinct when I watch code to find out where the cause of a problem is. It is something behind the scenes telling me I should concentrate on a little fact. This […]