less is more

This weekend, I worked on a little demo that embeds a WF workflow within an Excel app.

The Excel spreadsheet, in my demo, is shared among a set of users. Based on the gestures/actions performed by the users, the embedded WF program instance (i.e. workflow) executes forward. My Excel app hosts the WF runtime.

Upon passivation, the WF program instance state is serialized automatically as a part of the Excel app. I even embdeded the program XAML in the spreadsheet to make it self contained. 

In the process, I played quite a bit with VSTO. I really liked the way it simplifies Office programming and especially liked its cached data feature.

We met the deadline right on time and submitted the final manuscript to the publisher on June 15nth.

The last month was grueling. We reorganized the entire content based on an updated TOC.

I’m very pleased with the results.

We still have two appendices to submit by June 20th.

I changed my blog engine from Blogger to WordPress. I feel so much better.

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