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Excel RefEdit in C#

During the development of FlowBreeze 3.0, I wasted a lot of time mucking around with different approaches to emulating the RefEdit control from C#. If you’re not familiar with it, the RefEdit control looks something like this on a typical … Continue reading

2011 Excel Version Survey

Time for a periodic update to the BreezeTree Excel version survey. The numbers are below and speak for themselves. The survey data was collected over the last six months, and the target audience was business users. Standard disclaimer: This is … Continue reading

The Story So Far

The main thing I've had trouble with concerning this project is time management.  I'm still working on that.  But I wrote this post about the background of the project and what's it all about.FileMapper is an application I started late la…

The Story So Far

The main thing I've had trouble with concerning this project is time management.  I'm still working on that.  But I wrote this post about the background of the project and what's it all about.FileMapper is an application I started late la…

It Begins!

The 30 Day Product Challenge is ready to go. Join us over at planetmicroisv for all the latest in our quest to build out a product in a mere thirty days.
Good luck to all fellow competitors! I look forward to seeing what apps we can come up with.

30 Day Product Challenge

My FileMapper application has been languishing on my hard drive for several months now.  In January I thought I had about a month of part time work to get the project to a Beta release.  But several factors have conspired to prevent further w…

30 Day Product Challenge

My FileMapper application has been languishing on my hard drive for several months now.  In January I thought I had about a month of part time work to get the project to a Beta release.  But several factors have conspired to prevent further w…

30 Day Product Challenge

Over on The Business of Software forums there is a thread about a 30 Day Product Challenge. The objective is to build and launch a product in September (30 days). If you’re interested in joining then send your RSS feed to rich@buggy.id.au and I’ll add it to the 30 Day Product Challenge category on Planet [...]

Microsoft Excel User Data – 2009

Just a quick update to the earlier data on Microsoft Excel / Office user data (see Office Market Share by Version – 2008 Data for reference). For the first six months of 2009, the survey has collected 594 more data … Continue reading

FlowBreeze 2.2 Released

Version 2.2 of FlowBreeze Flowcharting add-in for Excel has been released. It has several new features and many minor usability improvements. Two of the features have come from customer requests – a Style Wizard, and Insert Branch tool. The Style … Continue reading