Apr 27
Automatic extraction of standard and custom Microsoft Office document properties. Information is extracted through Office components and COM interfaces, not directly from the document files. Demo for Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
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Apr 21
Extract data from compiled CHM Help Files and, more generic, from any IStorage-based compound document. The file itself is seen as a component, because data extraction is actually performed through standard COM interfaces, and not through typical I/O operations on file streams. As consequence, it is not necessary at all to know the raw storage file format of these CFBF compound documents.
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Apr 19
Generic hierarchical Object Browser for both .NET types and their instances. This prototype may serve as a demo and base for other projects to come. It also provides a basis for both data and metadata representation. Unlike other common static metadata browsers, which show types, members and relationships between types, this Instance Browser will also dynamically auto-expand its nodes, at run-time, into child objects.
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