Peter Torr's Blog
Posts about Windows [Phone] application development. And other stuff.
More VSTO Press
VSTO has been picked by a few more places; you can pick your favourite link from Google News results...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/13/2003
More testing
Another test of WordBlogX since the last post kind of crashed on me
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/11/2003
Updating WordBlogX
I've spent much of this afternoon playing around with the WordBlogX code, adding a few simple...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/11/2003
Old Fashioned Security
The other day I decided to write one of my very good friends a letter. Not one of those new-fangled...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/10/2003
Successfully debugging VSTO projects
It seems that everyone I know who is writing a blog has a long list of things they want to talk...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/06/2003
VSTO Press Coverage
The VSTO release has been picked up by SD Times. Hopefully this is the first of many stories....
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/01/2003
Future blogs
I really wanted to spend some time today going over common misunderstandings about the GAC, about...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/01/2003
Media Centre PC
Today was the launch of the new Media Centre PC -- you can read about it at ZDNet -- and there was a...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/01/2003
Two geeks coding
It's Monday night. You come home from work. What do you do? Sit in the lounge and code, of course!...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/30/2003
Funny error message and some old memories
In an attempt to "out-Raymond Raymond" (a common sport, it seems) I hereby post a funny error...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/26/2003
Other blogs you should read
Greg Fee is one of the main developers on CLR security, and you should read what he has to say or...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/26/2003
Dr. Who is BACK!
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm a big Dr. Who fan. And as several friends have already told...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/26/2003
Why must I trust the documents as well as code?
Spurred on by the knowledge that at least 5 people read my blog and the fact that it's 2:40 am the...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/25/2003
If a tree falls in the forrest...
It would be nice to know how many people (if any) actually read this. Kind of gives one an incentive...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/24/2003
Paranoia
As noted in a previous "blogsicle", I have a strange habit of wasting countless hours browsing...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/21/2003
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Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/21/2003
Compiled, interpreted, whatever
Every now and then, people talk about "compiled" versus "interpreted" languages, and how they are...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/14/2003
First real bug
Rob found an interesting bug last night that I couldn't repro... until today. Turns out that when...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/09/2003
Where does your macro want to go today?
One of the things that currently torments my soul has to do with macros in Office. Now "macro" can...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/09/2003
First real bug
Rob found an interesting bug last night that I couldn't repro... until today. Turns out that when...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/09/2003
1 User and counting...
I've posted the WordBlogX code on www.gotdotnet.com; just need to wait for the upload to be approved...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/09/2003
WordBlogX Released?
So I've spent soooooo long getting this stupid thing released that you're probably expecting bells...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 09/09/2003
Releasing code for WinBloX
A couple of people have asked me about this... I just need to clean up a few things in my "copious...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 08/26/2003
Stayin' Alive
Just a quick message to anyone who happens to be reading this that I'm still around. I've just been...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 08/05/2003
WordBlogX v0.1 is done!
So after a little bit more work, I have my Word interface to https://blogs.gotdotnet.com working. I...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 07/26/2003
Testing
Here is some sample text created with Microsoft Word.I get the following features: Bulleted lists...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 07/21/2003
Word front end
After a few hours of struggling with how to convert a Word Range object to HTML, and a few more...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 07/21/2003
Dr. Who
So if anyone else out there has the bright idea of doing a 12-hour marathon session of "Dr. Who", my...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 07/20/2003
ObFirstPost
So I'm sitting here wondering why I'm using a WinForms client (not that that isn't cool) to write an...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 07/16/2003