Author: Ken Puls

My first VB.NET application

Okay, it's a simple application. Really simple. I wrote this as an easy project to break into VB.NET. I'm actually feeling pretty good about it though, as it took me a couple of hours to code a working game, never

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VBA IDE vs VS2008 IDE

On Friday night, I began reading my way through PED 2nd Edition. After something weird happened with Excel, (I think because I have Excel 2003 and 2007 installed,) I got the bright idea to create a very simple Windows Forms

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Breaking text to two lines

I was working on my budget package today, and decided that I wanted to break the text so that it showed on two lines. For many novice users this means that they put one or two words in one cell,

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Turn data on its ear

I recently taught a course and, while this wasn't actually covered in the course content, we did discuss it. I've found that every time I demonstrate this technique, it gets some "oohs" and "aahs", so I figured that I'd share

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Actual Charts vs Images

In a blog post last week, I was looking at the image formats to use when I snapped a picture of a chart. I'm kind of glad that Jon agreed with my assessment on EMF being the best image format

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