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Dot Disaster, Frameworks don’t work!

( .Net and MS and VSTA and C/C++ )

The world of managed com addins is a mess. VSTO has not been received well and the story of unmanaged code (Excel) and managed code is of deployment and stability nightmares.
There are a quite a few things right from the off that cause problems for Office devs wanting to use .Net technology:
- .Net is inherently […]

Geocoding in Excel using Google Maps API

Heres a little example of some VBA functions I put together to get geocodes into excel using the google maps API.
It’s not the best geocoder in the world, but it does ok in the test I’ve done so far, although it does just come up with blanks for some locations. To use it you will […]