I had seen part of Darren’s IBF presentation before when he sat down with me and went through it. But its much better seeing all the way through. Seeing the full end to end Contoso solution really helped things fall into place.
There are still a few things that I need to graple with internally – one is how do you manage teams on projects like this. They look like short sharp pieces of work. That would make things like source code control so much more important I think.
It was also good to catch up with so many guys from Readify plus all the usual suspects from the Sydney Deep .NET User Group.
The Story Behind a Method Name
May 5, 2005
I’m sitting in the foyer of the AMP Capital Investments building Sydney waiting for the Sydney Deep .NET User Group meeting to start. I’m quite a bit early so to fill in the time I thought I would dig through some of the VSTO features of Visual Studio 2005 (Darren Neimke is presenting tonight on the Information Bridge Framework so I thought this would get me into the mood).
As I was surfing the API’s I stumbled across this little gem of a method on the Document class (in the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word namespace).
void ConvertVietDoc(int CodePageOrigin);
The IntelliSense description for this method was “Reconverts a Vietnamese document to Unicode using a code page other than the default”. Not that I have any problems with the method being there but it does stick out like a sore thumb and I can’t help but wonder what the story behind it is.
Its obviously got to do with some I8LN requirement but very specific to Vietnamese.
