Manual Uninstall steps for Oracle 10g

I found this writeup on manually uninstalling Oracle 10g very useful. Many thanks to the blogger for sharing these steps with the community.

Which version of .NET CLR does MS Office 2003 load?

MS Office is slowly evolving as a platform for application development. These are exciting times for developing .NET solutions based on MS Office. A few days back, I encountered an interesting issue in Office 2003. An IBF region that used .NET 2.0 failed to load in the IBF task pane. The client system had .NET 2.0 as well as .NET 1.1. On further debugging, it was discovered that the host Office application was loading .NET 1.1 CLR instead of .NET 2.0 CLR and hence the IBF region failed to load. A brute force approach to resolve this issue would be to modify the <OfficeApplication>.exe.config file and place the following entry in it

<supportedRuntime version="2.0.50727" />

But the recommended approach is to apply an Office Update KB907417. Applying this update will make Office applications load the latest version of .NET CLR installed on the client system.