Availability Anywhere Part 28 — Remote work best practices

This is the twentieth eighth part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows We can’t just “take what we do now and how we do it” and “send it over the Internet”. We … Continue reading Availability Anywhere Part 28 — Remote work best practices

Async Wandering Part 15 — How async in C# tricks you and how to order async continuations

This is the fifteenth part of the Async Wandering series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Why creating Form from WinForms in unit tests breaks async? You probably heard that async is all about not blocking the operating system level thread. This is the … Continue reading Async Wandering Part 15 — How async in C# tricks you and how to order async continuations

RPA Part 1 — Sharing Word/Excel between objects in Blue Prism

It’s quite common for Blue Prism developers to use MS Word VBO or similar to interact with Word instances in workflows. However, a problem arises when we want to extend the object with some custom functionality that utilizes Word COM object. The issue is that MS Word VBO doesn’t expose the Word instance and we … Continue reading RPA Part 1 — Sharing Word/Excel between objects in Blue Prism