Office 2007 and Vista: Error message when opening with double-click in Explorer

Mal wieder ein Eintrag auf Englisch, wegen schwerer Er-Google-Bar-Keit.

This nasty bug nagged me for half a year now: I was not able to open Office 2007 documents in Vista in the Explorer. Also the integration with Office Groove was broken. If I double-clicked on a document to open it, Vista showed a stupid nice error message, saying: "Windows cannot find '{path to yourfile.abc}'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." This was really annoying!

Today, I stumbled over the solution at in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (Article 211494). You have to turn off the obscure setting called "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange" in any of the office program's options.

Very obvious, isn't it?

Adobe Reader: Removing the stupid hand symbol with the down arrow

Ever wondered how to get rid of the stupid hand symbol with the down arrow you sometimes get in Adobe Reader when viewing documents? The one that zooms to width on first click and then emulates a "page down" operation?

Go to Page Display Preferences >> General and disable the option "Make Hand Tool Read Articles". What a relief!

Virtuelles Staubsauger-Feeling mit dem Roomba

Ich besitze ja selbst zwei von den niedlichen Haushaltshelfern und eine Wii, aber so kreativ wie dieser junge Japaner setzte ich sie (noch) nicht ein.

A really stupid bug in Windows Vista

Erde an Redmond: Bitte fixen:

There is a nasty bug in Windows Vista. After accessing a file on a CD and removing the CD (after cleanly ejecting it via Windows Explorer), some hours later, when I wanted to start NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS, an extended version of Eclipse), I got the error message "Windows-No Disk, Exception processing message 0xc0000013 parameters ...". It was extremely sticky and re-appeard no matter on which button I clicked. The solution (after some serious googling) was to put a CD in the drive. This is just one example of the benefits you get from using the great new operating system from Microsoft. My recommendation: stick to XP for another two years, until Vista has emerged as stable.

[coding] Cooles Tool zum Testen von Web-Services

Heute mal wieder ein engischer Programmierungs-Produktivitäts-Post

If you ever develop an application that exposes web services (in the W3C sense of the word), at some point you will need to test the functionality. I recommend soapUI (http://www.soapui.org/) for this. The tool can generate random SOAP requests based on any imported WSDL file. You can change and save the requests and submit them any time and get the SOAP response displayed in a nice and clean way.
I use it for development of Java 5 EE on SAP Netweaver and I prefer soapUI over the built-in, web-based testing tool "NetWeaver WS Navigator".

Viel Spaß damit!

[coding] How to make Eclipse behave when working on code managed by SVN

So, heute mal auf Englisch:

Eclipse can really screw up your locally checked-out SVN copy. The problem is, that it copies the “.svn” directories from the source folders (where they belong) to the output folder next to the compiled classes (where they should not be). The result is disastrous: you can neither commit nor update any more – and even the cleanup fails.

To avoid this, make sure to make the following build path settings for each of the projects: open the build path properties on the source page and add the following exclusion pattern to every source folder: **/?svn/**

This is Ant syntax for any path below each svn folder anywhere in the source path. Now your output folders will remain clean, since Eclipse will ignore and not copy them when creating your build folder.

PS: Ja, ich weiß, es ist schlechter Stil Deutsch und English in einem Blog zu mischen. Allerdings ist diese Lösung so universell und so schlecht er-google-bar, dass ich meine, ich müsse die Lösung dem erreichbaren Wissen der Menschheit hinzufügen. Und mit Englisch erreicht man eben mehr Menschen.

WikiMedia Hotkey Alt-Shift-P funktioniert endlich wieder

Dies wird alle WikiMedia-Autoren (z. B. solche die die Wikipedia bearbeiten) interessieren. Vor einigen Monaten hat mir ein Windows-Media-Player-Update die Tastenkombination Alt-Shift-P geklaut. Früher habe ich die immer benutzt, um auf der "Editieren"-Seite eines Artikels die Vorschau anzustoßen. Seit dem Update startete meine geliebte Tastenkombination aber nur noch den Windows Media Player. Nun habe ich endlich Abhilfe gefunden.

Schuld ist die Windows-Media-Player Toolbar in der Taskbar. Einfach das Kontextmenü der Taskbar aufrufen und unter "Toolbars" (oder das deutsche Äquivalent) und "Windows Media Player" abwählen.