A "Code Librarian" quesstion

[David F. Schrader]

I hope this is the right news group to ask this question
since it could easily fall into a number of Office groups.

While wondering ponderously (descriptive adverb seriously
intended) looking for clues to how to accomplish various
tasks within Work, Excel, and Access I find frequent referrals
to code "stored which can easily be reused if stored in 'Code
Librarian' - a 'Microsoft product' " along with references to
code snippets which, of course, certainly aren't on the net
but are somewhere off on a disk. Lengthy searching produces
many references to "Code Librarian" but none I've found so
far as to where it can be found or gotten - or if it is still even
available. Is it even still compatible with the newer (2003)
versions?

Anyone with more information who can send me a bit more
than is on the MS site would be the recipient of my deep
appreciation.

Many thanks in advance ( - oh, and, is the thing any good?)


David

 

[George Nicholson]

Code Librarian was an Add-in available with the Office 2000 & XP (2002)
Developers Edition. Pretty sure 2000 was it's introduction, not sure if it's
included in VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003).

It is a repository database that you can search & browse for code snippets,
etc. The interface includes a Treeview control so you can view/organize code
snippets by area: Excel, Word, String Manipulation, Date/Time functions,
etc. www.FMSInc.com has what seems to be a similar vb code repository (with
a lot more pre-loaded code), but I've never used it ($$).

The preloaded stuff is OK, but far-far-far from exhaustive. What's nice is a
way to organize & store stuff you know you'll need again or to store
snippets (or even whole MSKB articles) that you've copied from the web but
don't really need yet .

....and for what it's worth, I think the 2000 code librarian had more, and
more interesting/usable code than the XP/2002 version did, but that may be
just me. Also (if applicable), Office 2000 Developers Tools were available
as a separate upgrade to owners of Office 2000. Office XP Developers stuff
was only available with the full office suite.

HTH,

 

[David F. Schrader]

George,

My thanks. Unfortunately, what you have provided still
doesn't provide me with enough to find the product on
the MS site - seems like once a new product is released
the older version falls below all radar and sonar detection.

My thanks. At least I know more about it now. You
wouldn't happen to know whether it's part of the MSDN
or the TechNet packages or not? Or it is another separate
tool that MS can charge you a bundle of bucks (just to
get another item that ties into their development environment
which is already huge enough that limps along)?

David

(Also I apologize for the delay in getting back. I had a
cataract removed and ran into some problems that
they didn't warn me about. Isn't that a big bunch more
of the same-old-same-old that we could do without! dfs)

 

[George Nicholson]

All I know it was one of the tools included in the Office 2000 and XP
Developers tool set. I don't know if it was/is available outside of that, or
if it is part of VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office System)

If MSDN or TechNet includes the Office Developers tools, then it should be
in there somewhere, maybe under a "VBA tools" heading.

 

[Jonathan West]

Microsoft dropped Office 2000 from the MSDN Subscriber download area, I
believe because the products included libraries affected by the Ruling
regarding Sun and Java. The Office Developer tools are not supplied on MSDN
with Office 2003. So as far as I'm aware, there is no means of getting it
these days.

If you have an MSDN subscription that goes back a year or two, and have your
old CDs, then you may find the Office 2000 Developer Edition Tools CD
amongst them.

Alternatively, you might like to try Total Visual SourceBook from FMS. It's
fairly pricey ($399 for a single-user license or $499 as part of the Total
Visual Developer suite), but it contains a larger selection of sample code
and a useful collection of other utilities.

But then again, you can easily store code modules and snippets in ordinary
files in a "Code samples" folder, and resuse them by importing from there.
And that costs you nothing.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Pity about the code librarian having gone missing. That's one of the reasons
I've been reluctant to rely heavily on the misc. tools MS supplies. They tend
to disappear suddenly during version changes.

FWIW, the free demo of our Friday app (www.steverindsberg.com) makes a decent
little code repository. Stores all the pages of content you might like, just
won't make HTML from more than 25 of 'em in the demo version. Since HTML isn't
a concern here, no biggie. ;-)

 

[David F. Schrader]

Wow, step away for a quick sandwich and
when you get back replies have popped up
mushrooms after the rain in Florida (can you
guess where I live?).

Thanks for the suggestion of looking in the
back edition of the MSDN library. I don't
have it back that far but I think I can tap into
some one who does who might let me get it
without me (or them) getting into trouble.
(Yet to be seen...)

Many thanks to all. (I guess I'm going to need
a BIG truck to deliver all those virtual cookies.
(Hope Oreo's are everybody's favorites!!)

David