Ok, I've seen a few posts that mention a few other posts about not using SP wikis because they suck. Since we are looking at doing our wiki in SP, I need to know why we shouldn't do it for a group of 6 automation-developers to document the steps in various automated processes and the changes that have to be made from time to time. Than...
If you're doing some textual manipulation of a file/files, at what point do you decide to automate the process (using your favorite scripting language or writing a macro in a tool) ? Is it after a certain number of repetitions or based on the likelihood you'll need to repeat the process ? Is it productive to automate a task if creating...
How can I pipe the new password to smbpasswd so I can automate my installation process. ...
What tools are useful for automating clicking through a windows form application? Is this even useful? I see the testers at my company doing this a great deal and it seems like a waste of time. ...
In my limited experience with them executable requirements (i.e. specifying all requirements as broken automated tests) have proven to be amazingly successful. I've worked on one project in which we placed a heavy emphasis on creating high-level automated tests which exercised all the functionality of a given use case/user story. It wa...
What are some macros that you have found useful in Visual Studio for code manipulation and automation? ...
As part of the publishing "best practices" i came up with my own, i tend to archive report groups and republish the "updated" reports. However, with this stratedgy, I lose users associated with each report, or have to rehide reports. Is there an automated process I can use to hide reports, or add users, after deploying form Visual Stud...
There is a rich scripting model for Microsoft Office, but not so with Apple iWork, and specifically the word processor Pages. While there are some AppleScript hooks, it looks like the best approach is to manipulate the underlying XML data. This turns out to be pretty ugly because (for example) page breaks are stored in XML. So for examp...
I am trying to replace the current selection in Word (2003/2007) by some RTF string stored in a variable. Here is the current code: Clipboard.SetText(strRTFString, TextDataFormat.Rtf) oWord.ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.Selection.PasteAndFormat(0) Is there any way to do the same thing without going through the clipboard. Or is there an...
We are developing a little application that given a directory with PDF files creates a unique PDF file containing all the PDF files in the directory. This is a simple task using iTextSharp. The problem appears if in the directory exist some files like Word documents, or Excel documents. My question is, is there a way to convert word, ex...
Is there a programmatic way to build htpasswd files, without depending on OS specific functions (i.e. exec(), passthru())? ...
I am working with a PC based automation software package called Think'n'Do created by Phoenix Contact It does real time processing, read inputs/ control logic / write outputs all done in a maximum of 50ms. We have an OPC server that is reading/writing tags from a PLC every 10ms. There is a long delay in writing a tag to the PLC and readi...
What code do you need to add in PHP to automatically have the browser download a file to the local machine when a link is visited? I am specifically thinking of functionality similar to that of download sites that prompt the user to save a file to disk once you click on the name of the software? ...
In my automated NAnt build we have a step that generates a lot of code off of the database (using SubSonic) and the code is separated into folders that match the schema name in the database. For example: /generated-code /dbo SomeTable.cs OtherTable.cs /abc Customer.cs Order.cs The schema names are there to isolate the generat...
Is it possible to extract all of the VBA code from a Word 2007 "docm" document using the API? I have found how to insert VBA code at runtime, and how to delete all VBA code, but not pull the actual code out into a stream or string that I can store (and insert into other documents in the future). Any tips or resources would be appreciat...
How to enumerate opened code windows (i.e. those windows where you edit documents) upon solution loading using macros? As you probably know, MSVS remembers opened documents, i.e. when you load solution, IDE will load previously opened files. What I want to do is to perform some actions with those windows upon solution loading. I tried ...
We are currently developing a server whereby a client requests interest in changes to specific data elements and when that data changes the server pushes the data back to the client. There has vigorous debate at work about whether or not it would be better for the client to poll for this data. What is considered to be the ideal method,...
Been scouring the net for something like firewatir but for python. I'm trying to automate firefox on linux. Any suggestions? ...
I wondered if anyone had successfully managed, or knew how to automate the Safari web browser on the Windows platform. Ideally I would like to automate Safari in a similar way to using mshtml for Internet Explorer. Failing that a way to inject JavaScript into the running process would also be fine. I've used the JavaScript injection met...
Where is a good place to start with making an application in .NET that communicates through OPC? ...