How Excel VBO in 5.0.33 destroyed my weekend (again locale issue)

Some weeks ago I’ve discovered that even if BP was updated on customer environment, business objects were not. So I decided do update the Excel VBO at the last version: 5.0.33 and I started to see something strange. When I tried to set a formula in an excel cell the formula...

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Playing with RDP and Surface Automation

This is a small blog post about a little trick very useful when you are in supervised-run phase. Typically in this phase, you run the process in debug mode at full speed on a particular machine in order to discover weak points of the automation and performance issues. If the automation is design to use surface automation techniques, desktop resolution...

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Namespace collisions in BluePrism

This will be one of the shortest both on my blog and is about a short and sad story about code refactoring. I was trying to reorder business objects introducing namespaces, as you already know BP encourage to create more than just one business object per application: the problem...

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An approach to exception handling in BluePrism

One of the things I dislike the most is the fact that when someone approaches RPA is lead to think that he/she doesn’t need any, programming language knowledge: sadly it’s not true. The proof of that is the poor exception handling I often see: we know from traditional programming...

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