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On March 10, 2010, xiko said:

need pmbok in portuguses anyone have this ?
thx a lot

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On March 10, 2010, TEEMO said:

wow, some of you guys are really negative,this dude was just trying to help. thanks brother or sister, i scrolled down the comments and exercised some patience and guess what i evetually found something useful, so thanks again.

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On March 9, 2010, Simon said:

Hi,
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and they have good blog

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On March 5, 2010, Dan said:

hit up v8bikes.com its ull of unconventional bikes! lol... they trikes are totally understandable... but really, u dont need three hundred hp on a bike.

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On February 26, 2010, Don said:

I don't imagine you'd want to ride the thing very far, can you imagine the heat that motor would throw your way. I wouldn't come down on someone's hard work, it certainly is unique, just not very functional.

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On February 24, 2010, Joe said:

This is one of the cheesiest blog posts I've ever read.

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On February 23, 2010, Ralph Titone said:

We've stumbled on a potentially major bug as well. We are not using Project Server. When we downsave from Project 2007 to 2003, we are intermittently losing data. Sometimes its predecessors & successors, sometimes text field data. Anyone else seen this?

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On January 12, 2010, ANARKI said:

This is F'ked up.

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On January 11, 2010, MCriss said:

It seems that gut feel and MS Powerpoint project scheduled rule the day anymore. I will definitely check this book out.

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On January 7, 2010, Rob Schneider said:

Thanks. Was chatting with someone just this morning about how decisions are made. I'm trying to provide a service which helps decision-makers by providing them better tools for manging information for the decision basis (better project plans, better simulation of project plans impacted by risk different scenerios, etc.).

The reaction of my friend was that "in this industry we just make decisions based on instinct and gut feel. Some of us are lucky and others are not."

I'm going to read this book to see if it gives any insights I can use to refute/address this way of thinking. I'm not trying to take away their ability to make a decision based on instinct. I just feel that others around that person (or persons) would like to have a better basis.

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On January 5, 2010, Patio Furniture said:

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On January 4, 2010, ssamayoa said:

This worked for me:

http://risktrak.com/news/PMBOK3rdEnglish.pdf

Thanks.

Someone got 4th edition?

Regards.

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On December 22, 2009, Andy Kennedy said:

thanks! 10 minutes and i have it working for assignments - been looking for a way to do this for weeks

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On December 21, 2009, Sally said:

That is nice to definitely locate a web site where the blogger really knows what he is talking about.

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On December 20, 2009, Sudhakar said:

Pran,
You are the man.
Thanks a load buddy

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On December 20, 2009, Mike said:

I am a professional programmer but am new to VBA - my background is Java and .NET. I needed to do some integer division and all I needed was the syntax. This was exactly what I needed: thanks a lot!!

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On December 18, 2009, PMBOK Hunter said:

Pran,
Sweet and Thank You!

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On December 17, 2009, frank patrick said:

The PM 3.0 bus is destined to follow the PM 2.0 Bus.

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On December 17, 2009, Tiberiu Ghioca said:

2.0 comes from the Web 2.0 technology and I would say it is inappropriate to use that definition for Project Management 2.0. The definition should be restricted to this:

"Project Management 2.0 is an approach to managing projects that is brought to life by the use of Web-based."

The rest should be valid for any technology and not just for Web 2.0

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On December 17, 2009, Milo said:

Hi i got the same error as the first comment

"Compile Error: User-defined type not defined" and part of the code is highlighted: "xlRow As Excel.Range".

tried to change the reference but it the option was not highlighted and would not allow me to open references.?

Anyone help.?
Thanks

It won't let you change references until you are out of debug mode. Click the button with a square on it to stop execution, then with the module open go to the tools menu / references and set the reference. Save. Then it should work.

-Jack

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On December 16, 2009, Pran said:

Hello All,

I saw all your messages....frustrated. Don't be now. I have the third edition of PMBOK, and I have uploaded it over here at this link:

http://www.sizablesend.com/download/b8957082f7e05a672986d7b2e5ac2572

No one please delete this file as it can be useful to many of us.

Thanks

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On December 9, 2009, Glen B. Alleman said:

Once again, like I mentioned in PHX, you're a Pro. Nice work as always.

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On December 9, 2009, VBARookE said:

Thank you! After poring over countless VBA examples and compiling snippets of code, I found this example and it worked perfectly. Thanks again!

This comment was made on the entry Working with the Tasks Collection.

On December 1, 2009, n said:

Posted by chris | June 22, 2007 7:48 PM


commenting on what chris wrote... its not cool to buy an expensive well made motorcycle? u lost me on that one loser... some of have careers and dont have the time to build our own motorcycle but we have the money to buy one, but that would makes us posers?...ur an idiot

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On November 30, 2009, Venkat said:

Hi,

Thanks for the article. helped me creating a command bar.
Here is the c# code and setting up image for the button.

public partial class ThisAddIn
{
Office.CommandBar commandBar;
Office.CommandBarButton firstButton;
Office.CommandBarButton secondButton;

private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{

AddToolbar();
}

private void AddToolbar()
{
try
{
commandBar = Application.CommandBars["Test"];
}
catch (ArgumentException e)
{
// Toolbar named Test does not exist so we should create it.
}

if (commandBar == null)
{
commandBar = Application.CommandBars.Add("Test", 1, missing, true);
}

try
{
// Add a button to the command bar and an event handler.
firstButton = (Office.CommandBarButton)commandBar.Controls.Add(1, missing, missing, missing, missing);
firstButton.Style = Office.MsoButtonStyle.msoButtonIconAndCaption;
firstButton.Caption = "Button 1";
firstButton.Tag = "Button 1";
firstButton.TooltipText = "Button 1";
firstButton.Picture = (IPictureDisp)AxHost2.GetIPictureDispFromPicture(Resources.Access);

firstButton.Click += new Office._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(ButtonClick);

// Add a second button to the command bar and an event handler.
secondButton = (Office.CommandBarButton)commandBar.Controls.Add(1, missing, missing, missing, missing);
secondButton.Style = Office.MsoButtonStyle.msoButtonIconAndCaption;
secondButton.Caption = "button 2";
secondButton.Tag = "button2";
secondButton.Click += new Office._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(ButtonClick);
secondButton.Picture = (IPictureDisp)AxHost2.GetIPictureDispFromPicture(Resources.Access);
commandBar.Visible = true;
}
catch (ArgumentException e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}

// Handles the event when a button on the new toolbar is clicked.
private void ButtonClick(Office.CommandBarButton ctrl, ref bool cancel)
{
MessageBox.Show("You clicked: " + ctrl.Caption);
}
}

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On November 30, 2009, anantha said:

I wanted to know where to begin for PMP

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On November 8, 2009, Chris Lloyd said:

This is a great help, i am having to compile a program for my Uni assignment and this has helped me to see the light! Many Thanks!

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On November 7, 2009, Mohammad said:

thanks a lot of for your website

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On November 3, 2009, AvidLearner said:

Hi There,
These links appear not to work any longer?
Does anyone have any info regarding a "levels of involvement" categorisation, using terms such as "approver", "designer", "operator" - something like that?
Thanks

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On November 3, 2009, Mot said:

Hello:


Thanks for sharing your experience. I've also read your tutorial No. 2.


I have just finished migrating from VBA to VSTO for my Excel files, and now proceeding on MS Project files.


I am quite comfortable with VSTO/Excel, but still struggling with VSTO/MSProject. For example, I have no clue why in the following two statements, the first Project1 declaration is accepted by the compiler, yet the second Project1 assignment is not.


Dim Project1 As _
Microsoft.Office.Interop.MSProject.Project


Project1 = Globals.ThisAddin.Application.ActiveProject


Anyway I'll struggle through, but just want to ask if I am going to get where I need to be.


This is what I need to get to: In VBA/MSProject, I use "ProjectBeforeTaskChange" event. If somone changes the content of a field on a task, the event would be triggered, the changes will be examined, then accepted or rejected accoridng to procedures built into the event.


Another nice to have is the ability to make a task or field read-only or writable according to the identity of the editor. This is not available in VBA, but may be available in VSTO.


So in order to get what I need, VSTO must allow me to use "ProjectBeforeTaskChage" event, and preferably to allow locking of a field.


Have you been successful in programming these two features ?


Mot
Locking Project fields is not something that can be done reliably with either VBA or VSTO. The reason is that the user can easily turn off macros - in fact in many organizations, it is set that way by policy - so disabling the code is trivial and likely. The second point is that many of the on-change events in project have conditions where they are not triggered by actions, so there may be cases where they work, and cases where they don't. Because of this, I avoid most of the events except for those based on open and close. -Jack

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