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I recently had the need/desire to dynamically generate some code in .NET.  It's not something you tend to do a lot unless you are creating a compiler, so it was an interesting experience.  In the end it didn't solve my problem, but it was educational none-the-less. First I'll describe the scenario of the problem I was trying to solve ...

I have to blog about this before I do anything else.  I just found out that if you specify a configSection in your .exe.config file it must come as the first element in the configuration section!  I had done this:<?xml version=''1.0'' encoding=''utf-8'' ?> <configuration> <startup> <supportedRuntime ...

I don't write many Outlook macros primarily because I don't have time to learn the CDO document model.  But once upon a time I wrote a couple of macros that have become invaluable to me ever since.  Some background.  I process my e-mail roughly like this: I use Outlook rules to filter out e-mail that is sent to most of ...

I just spent an annoying amount of time figuring out how to do this because sadly our documentation is so bad.  So I'm going to blog it quickly so that I at least have a record of what I did and hopefully someone else will find it useful.  Thanks go to Tim Murphy for providing about the only decent blog on this subject. First ...