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In a previous article(/2017/05/vs-itemtemplates-wizards-and-vsix.html) I discussed how to create Item and Project templates and bundle them into their own VSIX installers. However, now that you have your VSIX installer the question becomes how do you dist

News flash You can create your own item and project templates for use with Visual Studio! Well I guess this is not really so big news if you've used the IDE for a while. Templates for files housing source code, resource configurations, configuration files

"So here is the thing, we want to have a list of values that the user can choose from in the cells of our sheet" __-Your boss__ Dropdown lists of the sort shown below are very common and can be hugely beneficial for users when filling out Excel sheets. Th

Extracting values from HTML form elements in webpages has historically been and still is a messy business when done client-side. Usually the process entails a rather cumbersome hand-written javascript function that acesses each DOM form element and extrac

I recently came across a rather subtle and nasty bug when using PHP to parse the responses from the Google Elevation API(https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/intro). Example response from Google Elevation API js { "elevation" : 1701.

Enabling VBA code in Excel to receive and handle chart events is not very straight forward to do. Fortunately there are quite a few useful guides available for this, e.g. Jon Peltier(http://peltiertech.com/chart-events-microsoft-excel/) and David J. Brett

I have been a fan of the GPAC(https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/downloads/) video tool package for a while. I've especially found their mp4box utility useful when dealing with mp4 files. Adding subtitles, creating chapters, combining multiple audio streams

I recently learned that the true and tested pagination gem for jekyll jekyll-paginate(https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-paginate) had been decommissioned and removed from Jekyll 3. This is unfortunate as this gem is very good but lacks only a few major new

Google published a handy API to implement hit tracking in your projects, the Measurement Protocol(https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/). This API is especially useful for APIs and other platforms that cannot use the pr

Today I learned(http://stackoverflow.com/a/5128451/779521) that you can run a simple local webserver for static content with only a single line python python -m http.server That is simply awesome! It will serve all available files and even list directory