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Visual Studio Shared Add-In won’t load

There seems to be a lot of issues when dealing with writing Office Add-ins. Forums are scoured with posts regarding an add-in that works fine on one PC but fails to load on another. The most common reason is simply described as "a run time error" by the COM add-in’s dialog. Thank Microsoft for the […]

C# Mailslot Control

Remember Mailslots? I do! I do! Gohd, I do..
Back in the day I used Mailslots to create a very simple LAN chat program in Delphi. Now I have re-created that functionality for use in .NET. Here I have a fully working Mailslot control written in C#.
This is one of those technologies that seriously […]