Office Tips: Line Breaks Without Bullets

Tested on Word 2007

When you’re creating a bulleted or numbered list in Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you might want an item to appear in the list without a bullet or without incrementing the number. You can start a new line without a bullet by pressing SHIFT+ENTER. The next time you press the ENTER key, the new line will continue the bulleted or numbered list.

Passing large files over WCF channel

If you want to pass large binary files via a WCF channel, you need to increase the maxStringContentLength on your WCF host app.config/web.config file. From my sample on my IssueTracker project, I added a new bindings element to the system.serviceModel section as below:
        <bindings>
            <wsHttpBinding>
                <binding name=”WSHttpBinding_IDataService” closeTimeout=”00:01:00″
                    openTimeout=”00:01:00″ receiveTimeout=”00:10:00″ sendTimeout=”00:01:00″
                    bypassProxyOnLocal=”false” transactionFlow=”false” hostNameComparisonMode=”StrongWildcard”
                    maxBufferPoolSize=”2147483647″ maxReceivedMessageSize=”2147483647″
                    messageEncoding=”Text” textEncoding=”utf-8″ useDefaultWebProxy=”true”
                    allowCookies=”false”>
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth=”2147483647″ maxStringContentLength=”2147483647″ maxArrayLength=”2147483647″
                        maxBytesPerRead=”2147483647″ maxNameTableCharCount=”2147483647″ />
                    <reliableSession ordered=”true” inactivityTimeout=”00:10:00″
                        enabled=”false” />
                    <security mode=”Message”>
                        <transport clientCredentialType=”Windows” proxyCredentialType=”None”
                            realm=”” />
                        <message clientCredentialType=”Windows” negotiateServiceCredential=”true”
                            algorithmSuite=”Default” establishSecurityContext=”true” />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </wsHttpBinding>
        </bindings>
        Having done that, your service will still not using this binding configuration, you need to add the binding name to the bindingConfiguration attribute inside your service element.

  <services>
      <service behaviorConfiguration=”DataServiceBehavior” name=”Zuko.Service.DataService”>
        <endpoint address=”” binding=”wsHttpBinding” contract=”Zuko.Service.IDataService” bindingConfiguration=”WSHttpBinding_IDataService”>
          <identity>
            <dns value=”localhost” />
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address=”mex” binding=”mexHttpBinding” contract=”IMetadataExchange” />
      </service>
    </services>