Here are some handy code snippets for inserting a table into a Word document through a Task Pane Add-In. If you don’t know what that is, you can get up and running with this hello world example.
I demonstrate inserting at the selection, inserting at a named binding and inserting HTML. There is another way, you can insert raw Office Open XML (OOXML), and while that provides the most power and flexibility, it is also by far the most complex way to do it. Continue reading
I recently had the need to execute a .jar file from within an Azure WebJob built with C#. I found a few resources that showed how to upload a .zip file, for instance, and have that run a .bat file as a job. Or, how to create a Java web app. But my webjob needed to do more than just run a .jar, and I didn’t have the time to get up to speed on Java and the Azure Storage SDK for Java. As the Google let me down, here I demonstrate the solution. Continue reading
T-SQL stored procedures that return a single a value (scalar) or a single row can benefit from the use of OUTPUT parameters. This is not appropriate for multiple row result sets, but if you just need one value, or the results of a single row, you can do it most efficiently with OUTPUT parameters as opposed to SELECTing into a DataReader or DataSet. Continue reading
If you need to do basic TIFF file manipulation you don’t need to reach for a 3rd party library. The Windows.Media.Imaging namespace provides tools you can use to:
contrived example 