Author: Ken Puls

Flowchart Programming

This has to be one of the weirdest little programs I've ever worked with... Back in 2003 I built a database to track our liquor inventories at work. It's fairly simple in that it has a table of product details

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Renewed for another year

I was really happy to see an email from Microsoft this morning to let me know I've been awarded as an MVP for my 4th consecutive year. 🙂 I've been pretty quiet since a couple of days into my vacation…

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Using getSize with RibbonX buttons

A friend just asked for some help with making a getSize callback work with some buttons. I figured this should be an easy one, and dove into the RibbonX book to check the table on page 172. Aha! There it

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Find and Replace Dreams

Is it just me, or if the Find and Replace tool in Excel (actually in Office) really limited? The first deficiency is that I want to be able to select "Within Selection", not within "Sheet". I know that it defaults

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PED 2nd Edition – Hello World!

As I mentioned in this post, I started working my way through the .NET Hello World example in PED 2nd Edition. I ran into a funny issue though, where it kept opening up my application in Excel 2003 instead of

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My 2nd .NET App on Windows Mobile

After playing around in Visual Studio, and taking my first foray into the VB.NET world, I thought it might be kind of interesting to try and see just how portable .NET code really is. So I decided to port the

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