http://www.manvirsingh.net Manvir's Blog! Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:04:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After programming with the Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for some time, I feel that using these applications in your own solutions can be quite overwhelming for the first timers. So, I thought of writing this post to introduce the concepts to everyone who wants to program/use ... http://www.manvirsingh.net/index.php/demystifying-microsoft-office-object-model-part-i/ While working with PowerPoint 2007 today I noticed a strange behavior: If you have a Chart in an Excel workbook, and you want to insert this chart as link in a PowerPoint Slide by using Paste Special, it may fail to paste anything in the slide if the current view is ... http://www.manvirsingh.net/index.php/paste-as-link-of-excel-chart-may-fail-in-powerpoint/ Let’s say we have created an ActiveX control using the wizard in Visual Studio 2008, and have checked the “Available in Insert Object Dialog” checkbox on the last page of the wizard as shown below: As the name suggests, this setting enables the ActiveX control to be in “Insert Object” dialog ... http://www.manvirsingh.net/index.php/an-mfc-based-activex-may-crash-excel-2003-when-inserted-while-recording-a-macro/ Phew! Finally, I am writing my first post! While writing this, I am thinking what should I write in it or what could I possibly post in My Blog in future. Hmm... Well it could be about programming concepts, game programming, and other technical stuff. I could also write about general topics, ... http://www.manvirsingh.net/index.php/hello-world/