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This is old news but still its a great tip http://www.harbar.net/archi... How to get an "Add Solution" option as a shell extention in windows explorerCrossposted from tariqayad.com
Over the last few months there has been quite a bit of news regarding Windows Mobile that has focused on 'pumping-up' the platform to compete with everything else out there (including the iphone) for instance Windows Mobile renamed to Windows Phone Microsoft Releases Windows Mobile Marketplace to compete with App Store Mobile Market place launches with 600 apps Windows Mobile 6.5 and how to create widget for WM 6.5 and this latest white paper - How to port an iphone application to Windows Mobile...
From neowin.net I came across this game. http://pagehunt.msrlivelabs... Its not exactly a great timer waster but its good for a good 5 minutes before you get bored. What I still don't get is, Bing should take into account any suggestion we may make for returning the page result, instead of saying "no thats not it".Crossposted from tariqayad.com...
Here is a cool app for Windows Mobile. It gives you 2 neat icons on your today screen to indicate missed calls or text messages. Clicking on the icons shows you a popup with text message, or missed call phone number. You can get it from here.Crossposted from tariqayad.com...
I was writing an extension for my blog that uses the MetaWeblog API, so here is what I have learnt about it. It uses XML RPC for communication. So if you are coding in .NET you will need the xml-rpc library from CookComputing. XML-RPC Firstly an Introduction to XML RPC over here (I would recommend reading the whole series posted there) so that you may get an idea of 1. XML RPC Types 2. Request 3. Response 4. Errors (a.k.a. Faults) Using CookComputing XML-RPC.Net The following link shows you how to...
With the closure of GotDotNet this wonderful tool has gone missing. I redid my machine today and went looking for it. I couldn't find any alternative hosting for it either. Does anyone have a copy of it that they can share please? Would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks, Tariq Cross-posted from tariqayad.com
A couple of days back Ravi gave me a shout out to this .NET Video youtube-wannabe site. Check it out: www.dotnetvideos.net But guess what he's there is a tempting offer at the site as well, a free subscription to asp.netPRO magazine on registration. Thanks for the link Ravi Technorati tags: .Net Videos, Tutorials Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Yes, I ran into the above mentioned issue. The solution is that fiddler does not catch url that go by "localhost" so the solution as mentioned in this blog is to replace localhost with localhost. Technorati tags: Fiddler, http debugging, casini, asp.NET, development server Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Tools written in Csharp for Video and Audio work. Check it out - http://moitah.net/. There's some cool stuff there (if you are into that kinda thing anyways) Technorati tags: audio, video, tools, csharp, .net Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I've been pondering about the lack of a more efficent process for developing MOSS/WSS Solutions (I mean a solution to a business probelm and not a wsp) lately, because believe it or not, when your MOSS Solution contains more than just one component, e.g. WebParts, Features, ASPX pages, Workflows etc, there is no Solution template in Visual Studio where you can add all these project types and have them compile to a single wsp. Its kind of a pain to develop without this functionality. Serge pointed...
"Such and Such a grid should not be blank when there is no data, it should show the column headers with no rows." How many times have you heard that? Yeah, I've seen it as bugs in the change request system!! Seems like a simple enough request, but trying to deliver it sends you straight into the land of GridView hacking. Oh why was such a simple feature not incorporated into the GridView. Microsoft are you listening. Instead you have to jump hoops. Here are some of those hoops that help you solve...
I just read this on downloadsquad.com. Miguel De Icaza and his team are working on a Silverlight Runtime for Mono. The project dubbed Moonlight surfaced on Miguel's blog. There is a more comprehensive run down of Moonlight on the SitePoint blogs. Technorati tags: Silverlight, MoonLight, Mono, .NET Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Via Mart Oooh - this tool from John is like an a couple of asprins for the developer writing those CAML queries. Thanks so much for this John Technorati tags: MOSS, SPS, WSS, Sharepoint, CAML Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I found the following reference pretty good for WCF. Its more streamlined, and bite sized than WCF Community site put up by Microsoft (sorry Ami thats just the truth) Check out http://wcfguide.blogspot.com Technorati tags: WCF, .NET 3.0, Windows Communication Foundation, Framework, WebServices Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Chris Burrows has an illustrated post on how to setup TFS to support Continuous Integration, Automated Unit Testing, and Automatic deployment. Link: http://blogs.madtechnology.... Technorati tags: TFS, CI, Continuous Integraion, Unit Testing, Automated Deployment Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
A good friend and ex-colleague of mine seems to have been bitten by an evil bug causing him to devote his free time to creating a tool that will report all hidden shares on a remote machine. The tool is available for download here. Your colleagues in your lan thought they could hide their party photos and mp3s from you, but not any more. Link: http://projectdistributor.n... Technorati tags: Hidden Shares, Tool, winnt, windows, xp, vista, win2k, share, reveal Cross-posted...
Lord of the Rings Online, a MMORPG from Turbine apparently uses .NET. The system requirements explicitly say so. I am not sure what parts of the game are .NET and which are native code, but I assume that the launcher is written in .NET and I did spy some resource assemblies being downloaded in the update process. The version of .NET required is 1.1 with Service Pack 1. Which means on a Vista box framework 1.1 gets installed in the LOTRO setup. Hmm need to explore more. Anyway's here is 2 incriminating...
Former GWBer and now MSFTy Brandon Paddock has released an app for Windows Vista that gives you the shortcut ability of Windows Desktop Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search) on the Vista Search box which is nested in the start menu. Go check it out. Brandon you are 'The Man'. First all those uber tips for WDS and now Start++. As a matter of fact, I find myself using WDS more for the shortcut ability rather than for the search functionality. Link: http://brandonlive.com/cate... Technorati...
Technorati tags: Photography, POTW Occasionally I haunt a few photography sites or other looking for images that catch my eye (giving a bit of critique based on what little I know). The photograph I found most amazing this week is one by Atanas Atanasov uploaded to Photo.net. In fact it was Photo of the Week Ending February 5th at Photo.net. Its just one of those photos that make you say WOW! really is amazing, go see it for yourself. Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Was bored today so wasted a few hours creating YEG. It's a tool that generates the YouTube Embed Code from the url of the YouTube Page. Nothing fancy, just a nice UI over some string concatenation. You can download it here URL of the Project on Project Distributor is http://projectdistributor.n... Alternatively there is a web version here. Tags: YEG, YouTube, Embed, Generator Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I like blogging from Word 2007, it makes redundant all the other blog editors I have had to have in the past and gives me the feature of a Word Processor (coz that's what it is). I even wrote a lil' app for adding Technorati Tags as well. But it's been a little kludgey to get to. I mean to create a new blog post what you have to do is Start Word 2007, click on the 'Office' orb, select new and then double click on new blog post. But Terry Ryan has a simple tip to circumvent all that hassle. I took...
Craig Tanner (whom I have tremendous respect for) did a podcast on process of creating the RadiantVista Podcasts. In the podcasts Craig mentions that he/they use an open source tool called Audacity for their audio editing. I tried Audacity today and it's pretty good. I am not an audio guru so have no in depth knowledge of what to expect of an audio editor, but as far as I am concerned, audacity lets me do all the basics, select, play, cut, copy, paste, loop. Tags: Radiant Vista, Podcasts, Craig Tanner,...
Quite a few folks raved on the blogging feature within Word 2007. See here for a run-down of this neat feature. So I gave it a swirl and found it pretty awesome and so moved away from Live Writer. However with Word lacking the Add Technorati tags feature I thought of dabbling my feat in VSTO and writing a something similar (yes I am ashamed to admit that I've stayed away from VSTO for so long). The fruits of my effort can be downloaded here. Of course to install this you need the .NET Framework 2.0...
Had issues debugging a web application on Vista, it kept complaining that Integrated Authentication was necessary. So goggled around and came across this post on Rick's Strahl's blog, and decided to install VS2005 SP1. The VS2005 SP1 setup experience in my case was horrible. it ended up being a memory hog brought the machine down to near halt, and that was just the setup initialization. I would advise folks to run the setup overnight if all they got is 1GB of Ram on their Vista boxes/notebook. So...
If you want to you can skip the blah blah blah of this post and go get it here is the link - StarUML (pls note workaround to quirky object naming is at the bottom) Anyways, sometime last week I was looking for a UML modelling tool, and was looking for something that would be easy on the pocket. There is a few sites out there that have listings up of the various UML tools, if you google for them you will find them. Most of the ones that cost $0 weren't impressive at all, and then there was ArgoUml,...
Yeah, had a struggle late night, and have come to the conclusion that Vista doesnt like my notebook(Dell Inspiron 6400). To be precise it prefers me to stick with Windows XP Home Edition, and is reluctant to upgrade it. The compatibility report was fine, the only Hardware complaints were - to Upgrade my Bios - i.e. got to A.11 from A.8 The software complaints were - Nero - which I can do without for the time being - McAfee Internet Suite - OMG, no compatibilty with McAfee, allright I'll give Avast...
A friend of mine pointed me out to this usefull utility Its a toolbar for Windows Explorer that gives you buttons for all the quick access functionality you've always wanted, like a open a cmd window to the curent folder, create a new folder, and open the VS CMD window for the current folder. tags: StExBar, Tool Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Koios Works have a game called Panzer Command that uses Managed Direct X. This is cool, its the first production game I know of that is written in .NET. tags: .NET, Game, Panzer Command, Managed Direct X Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Via Serge The long awaited (atleast by me) Visual Studio 2005 Extentions for SharePoint is out. I've been wanting this for a long time. Here is the link tags: SharePoint, Visual Studio 2005, Extentions Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
MOSS B2 TR expired on me today. It took me totally by surprise. I backdated the machine by one day and it was fine. Brought it forward by one day, and it said the trial period had expired. Was a bit confused since all web posting for this issue cliam it happens on Domain Controller, and my MOSS server wasnt a domain controller. Anyways the fix is to run the patch for the DC. StandaloneDCWorkaround.msi Thanks for the link Jan tags: SharePoint, Moss, Office Server, 2007, Beta 2, Technical Refresh,...
Its wierd, and I cant make head or tail of it. I was writing a webpart today, and I was maintaining a generic stack collection which I wanted to place in the session. What is wierd is that if i were to add object of type Stack <T> to the session, SharePoint says an unrecoverable error has occurred. The moment I changed the stack from a generic to a plain old .NET 1.1 non-generic Stack the error was gone. tags: SharePoint, WebParts, Generics, Session Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I wanted to extend my dektop keyboard and mouse to my laptop, and I had seen this been done before I knew it included the use of a vnc. So I googled for it and came across Jeff Handleys blog posting which links to Synergy. Tried it and its super. tags: kvm, extend, remote, synergy, oss, vnc Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I've seen quite a few blog post on the topic of writing a SP 2007 WebPart. But heres one at CodeGuru http://www.codeguru.com/csh... Cross-posted from tariqayad.com
I am trying out Windows Live Writer. It looks pleasing. Its got a nice and easy interface. http://www.windowsxlive.net... Its not bad, does all the basic stuff, except for one. No shortcut key for insert picture from the web, even worse no toolbar option for it. Cross-posted from tariqayad.com
I deployed a sample ASP .NET 2.0 app in to the _layouts directory of a WSS v 3 setup. This app was not precompiled. When the app runs, executing code that accesses the SP object model gave me the error "Unable to Validate Data". I can think of any reasoning behind that error. But after resetting IIS, all was fine. Note to Self: Recycle the Application pool after each deployment. Technorati : 2007, Sharepoint, Wss, v3 Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
What? <do Jeff Gerstman impression> Yes, Microsoft is going to charge for Office Beta downloads at the rate of $1.50 per download. What? Seriously, I would really like to know the reasoning behind this. Its just too easy for us bystanders and testers to come up with a gazillion negative comments about this, but what were their thinking behind this. Technorati : beta, charge, microsoft, office Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
This is interesting. First AMD buys ATI for over $ 5 Billion Soon followed by Intel pulls ATI chipset license Very stiff competition eh? Still considering ATI by itself, it has a long way to got regain the crown of graphics cards. Right now NVidia kicks ass. Which also should be soon followed by the comment that right now Intel kiss ass as well. Technorati : amd, ati, chipset, graphics, intel Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Check out www.netfx3.com. Its the community site for everything 3.0 in the framework. To tell you the honest truth I spent some good time trying to understand this 3.0 business. "I mean you take the 2.0 Framework, you add Avalon, Indigo etc and then call it .NET Framework 3.0. But in fact its nothing more than .NET 2.0 (Compiler, run time etc.) with additions." So overall when you get the .NET Framework 3.0 you will not be getting the language enhancements in C# 3.0, VB.NET 3.0, you will not be getting...
Somewhere around March this year Ron Jacobs published an interview where he discussed Web 2.0 trends in the Enterprise with Dion HinchCliffe on ArcCast. If you have been working with SharePoint for sometime then you'd realize what they speak about in terms of 'Democratisation of Content' isnt something really new. This was something anyone working on SharePoint first got excited about when SharePoint 2003 came out. Harry Pierson (a.k.a DevHawk ;) ) elaborates on this idea on his blog, and more recenly...
A Netcraft June Survey shows that IIS is catching up to Apache quite well. Neowin.net has the scoop. Excerpt "The number of hostnameson Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to 61.25%" Technorati : Apache, IIS, Netcraft...
The Silverstone GP 2006. Alonso just dominated it. An interesting race, not as controversial as Monacco but interesting nevertheless. I really was expecting a better fight from McLaren though, but like Kimi said the car just wasnt fast enough. Maybe next time. Honda also hadnt improved much since Monacco. The BMWs were looking better, there could be better competition from the in the future. Technorati : 2006, F1, Fernando Alonso, Renault...
I got mentioned in the Community Server Daily News. Cool! I still havent told the world about the site to put it in the 'this site is live category' as I am still working on it. I guess this post will do just that. Theres a bunch of stuff still left to do. And no I am not ditching GWB. I love being a part of the GWB community, but apart from that I do want to market myself and I think a site of my own will help a bit in that. Besides how can I ditch GWB, right now I am king of the hill with the highest...
I ran in to a problem with ASP.NET 2.0 where postbacks werent working over the weekend. The problem as it seemed was that there was a corrupt copy of the webresource.axd file in my local cache. Cleaning the list of cache files that were associated with the target site and reloading the page solved the issue. Just a friendly tip for anyone having this problem Technorati : ASP.NET 2.0, Caching, Development, Postback...
Ok so I downloaded, installed, and tried Windows Media Player 11. There is a lot I like about it, the new minimalisting UI is very neat. I really dig it. I love how stuff are organized in the library. They’ve even fixed a few of my earlier gripes (but only a few) The player in its smallest size is still tooo big to tuck anywhere on your screen while you are working (i.e. as default without hunting down for a tini mini skin) Customizable keyboard shortcuts are still missing. Currently as in...
There have been a few Skype Phones out there. like NetGear DU@LPhone Linksys More from Skype But here is a do it yourself plan...
Found this mini HTTP Server on SourceForge. Its pretty good for sittuations where you cant have IIS, or have something installed that requires running like a daemon. This a very simple app, in the nature of point it to a dir, and say "Host'. Ideal for sittuations where you want to web enable some log file, or a simple text file. Anyone seen a simple .NET Version? (i.e. other than casini)
Yes thats the name of the bucket that software like ACDSee falls into. “Digital Asset Mangement”, ACDSee being the most popular of those, and the latest ACDSee 8 Pro which I have been trying out is very good. Nice cool interface, very much improved. But an episode of the LightSource photography podcast introduced me to iView Media Pro, which in my opinion is even better. The inteface is much easier to work. It gives you the same features as ACDSee, but its much simpler to use since the...
Ok, this might not be news but, thought I’d shout it out anyways. Ipod Software v1.1 has a bug for the Ipod Nano and the Ipod video. If the center button is pressed too many times consecutively it has the tendancy to get stuck on the rating screen. Apple knows about this. Fortunately steps outlined by Timmer here came to my rescue “When you get this problem ( i have it too ):- wait approx 10sec- hit center butto twice- turn the clickwheel- select desired rating- hit centerbutton againThis...
I just came across this video which apparently was aired on nerd.tv Anina who is a model (can i say top international model?) talks about the use of mobile technology when travelling. Its very interesting to see how technology is being put to use, and this is one good testimony of its use. You should read her blog, she seems very passionate about technology in fashion. She also speak about how as usual ISP/Telecom providers tend to muck up the entire thing. She also has started a project about blogging...
If you havent seen it yet MSBee Beta has been release. Check it out here http://www.gotdotnet.com/co... In addition to this there are 2 additional tools that the MSBee team have apprently published. These are (in their own words) “Managed Stack Explorer MSE is a lightweight tool for monitoring .NET 2.0 processes and stack traces. Just copy and run. No installation required. Download Managed Stack Explorer v1.1 TFS Admin Tool (Joe's...
There is a new version of RssBandit, and it has one feature that I have been wanting for a longtime, i.e. to be able to mark an item as read from newpaper view. I did a minor change to the default outlook 2003 xslt to render the ‘mark item as read’ and ‘flag item’ to item footer, because if there is long post, and once you reach the end of it, you just dont want to scroll all the way up again to mark it as read. Here is what it looks like, and you can get it from here. I would...
Jon Galloway blogged about the Coral Distribution Network. I find this idea pretty cool. It solves the same problem that Bittorrent strives to but without all the hassle. “The coolest thing about it is that it's really easy to use. You just modify your links to include .nyud.net:8090/ after your domain name. So instead of this:http://www.mysite.com/... would use this::http://www.mysite.com... The file is still on your website,...
I have been going through Fritz’s ASP.NET webcast series, and yes like mentions was curious about his clock. Fortunately he has blogged about it
Jon Galloway has the goods/links
I dont think the game is out, quite frankly at this moment I am unaware of the official release date. But the good news is there is a demo. ww.nfsunlimited.net has a list of mirrors offerring the demo
Check out Robert McLaws et al’s Ms Build ToolKit Not going to steal their thunder so here is the link: http://weblogs.asp.net/rmcl... I am giving it a try right now
Wrote this over the weekend. It is also my first 2.0 public app. It is a tool that manupilatest the registry to change IE’s user agent string temporarily (temporarily becuase it resets it on exiting) One hiccup with it though, I couldnt find a means of removing the ‘Compatibility, Version, and Platform’ string but it does get obfuscated. Project Distributor Link : http://projectdistributor.n... Actually I did upload it to the gdn as well, but I...
Ok its out. VS 2005 has launched and this officially ushsers in the .NET 2.0 era, which actually makes me a bit curious about a couple of things. So let me post these question to you and let me know what you think. For how long do you guys plan on supporting your apps written in .NET 1.1. If you already have a 2.0 app in the works, typically in sittuations like this, what is the usual phase out period? Do you have any plans for supporting multiple runtime versions? I am trying to get a feel as to...
I have been a big fan of the Run Command. Primarily because from the app you are currently working with, launching another app is just a few key strokes away. Eg. if you are working with SharePoint, then typical run commands you would use is 'iexplore', 'inetmgr', 'iisreset', 'compmgmt.msc', 'frontpg' etc. Previously I had come across an app called 'ExeCommand' that would let you add entries like the above with an associated path to the registry making it available off the run command. But now I...
Today I was looking for a tool that would generate wrappers for existing resx files (if you are wondering, yes VS 2005 has corrupted me). I did a bit of googling around and found ResxWrap on SourceForge. Actually I found Codify templates first, but that was a bit too beefy for my requirement. ResxWrap is a simple console app that will parse your resx file and generate a c-sharp wrapper. The downside is that it creates ‘string’ properties for all your resource values no matter what type...
Valve have released the 'The Lost Coast', a HDR Lighting Demo level for HalfLife 2. Along the progress of the game you do have 'narratives' which exposes you to various aspects of building the game, character modeling and the technology itself. The best part is that this a free demo, however if you the requirements for HDR is very high. What is required is a processor speed greater than 2.8Ghz, more than 1GB Ram, and a Direct X 9 Card, which means I don't get to see all those cool bloom effects....
Nissan finally unveiled the GTR prototype. As some of you might know the GTR is now a seperate model from the Skyline. Fortunately the GTR retains much of the design traits of its skyline predecessors. But as you would see in the Autoblog comments in the link below there is general discontent with the front grill. In addition to this I think Nissan missed out another key Skyline trait, i.e. the horizontal lights. (Whats up with Nissan's fascination vertical lights anyway). I cant see why if Mazda...
This is probably old news by now, but I was only able to catch the repeat today. Renault are the manufacturers champions of the 2005 F1 season. If any of you own a Renault, you probably be proud to have F1 2005 Chapions bumper sticker right now. Good Season for Renault. Infact I might have been doubtfull earlier this season, but now I am sure ‘Blue is the new Red’. Lets wait and see how 2006 goes. Lot of change in the wind:- new car and engine specs, team acquisitions, driver reshuffle...
Courtesy of Jeff’s post I got to know of web.archive.org. The wayback machine there is way cool. Like for instance you can take a look at most public iterations of WebSites. For instance Microsoft.com IBM.com Sun.Com Oracle.com Apple.com cdnow.com...
So I was at the Mini Tech.Ed Sri Lanka 2005 today. There was an interesting interesting set of topics, but I think I made the wrong choice of following the Developer Track. Most of the sessions were rushed, or were not technical and code oriented enough (a tad too much marketing blah blah) Out of the 4 sessions the best were the 2 done by William Tay, out of which one was really rushed (as he said he had to cut down a topic that he normally takes 3 days to 1 hour), But you know the funny thing about...
A lot of people have already blogged about that Peter Jackson would be a Executive Producer for the Halo Movie. Now I havent played Halo 2 (since its not out on PC yet ;) ) so bare with me if some of this information is stale, but how I would really like the Halo movie to turn out is for it to have a human face. Granted the main actor of the movie would hardly be showing his face as the Master Chief will be in his suit all the time (can you say Robocop?). I wish the movie wouldnt be a 1:1 rendition...
A colleague of mine recently showed me that if you Console.Out.WriteLine in a windows forms app and if you happen to run the app in debug mode through the VS.NET the output actually gets displayed on the Output Window in IDE. That I didnt know, and was momentarily fascinated. Intrigued by that, did a bit of hunting around and came across this MSDN Magazine article. That article is a pretty good read. Apparently the standard output, standard input and standard error streams in app can be redirected....
I previously raised some concerns regarding WinApp Echo an how it accessed SharePoint objects, and Garry Smith from WinApp has provided clarifications to set us straight. Check out the comments section on this post. Thanks Garry Post: http://geekswithblogs.net/t...
In my hunt for IM bots and IM Sdks I came across this IRC API for .NET Link: http://sourceforge.net/proj... Example: http://www.codeproject.com/
Shane’s got his list of Messenger SharePoint contacts up. Awesome! One more immidiate requirement I have to get this community rocking. i.e. Basically to write a Messenger plugin that is capable of recording transcripts of these chats. I am thinking of something more like a ‘logging’ contact. That way whenever a SharePoint community site gets rolling, we could have an archive of interesting conversations. This could be a first cut attempt at a more aggressive plan for the future....
Eli has a write up of more V.Next features demoed at PDC. Go check it out. http://weblogs.asp.net/erob
Recently I’ve been working with a framework built on top of .NET & Windows Forms, and whenever it crashes (which seems to happen quite frequently in my case) the DW20 process spawns up and pegs the CPU at 100% and writes huge dump files. So what is this DW20.exe process? It’s the Error reporting client that comes with Office 2003 and you can find more about it here. What I am still at a loss to find out is why it spawns up when this framework I am working with crashes...
Looks like Stevie (from InfoTech) has posted a comprehensive SharePoint Backup Script. From the blog post “This script will backup: · The portal using the SPSBackup utility · The IIS Metabase · The computer's System State using NTBackup · Template and Config, Inetpub, log, and other miscellaneous files not backed up by SPSBackup” I am sure this will make a lot of you Admins happy J...
If any of you are want to look up some abbreviation that is used for language these days in this new language called ‘emailish” here is the reference: http://www.netlingo.com/ema... [Via myBlog]...
Found this wallpaper whilst surfing the net. Source: http://www.babagene.net/sfo
That is the official image of Sportback Concept from Mitsubishi. Speculation is that the next Evo, the Evo X might take design cues from this concept. If it does, I am sure it will be a much much better seller than the new face-lifted WRX...
Off of Neowin. Microsoft will be changing the IE Logo and branding for IE 7. My verdict : I like the old one (IE6) better with its hard cut edges, sky blue color, and cut-out on the left side of the "e". This new logo just doesnt reflect a "step forward" in IE...
I was playing around with those SharePoint Templates MS released recently, especially the change management one. If you have had a swing at this one you'd probably have noticed the Infopath forms submit to http://wsstemplates.quilogy... Orders/ so the question that remains are who are Quilogy, what do they do, and do they do SharePoint? Infact this "error" with the forms submitting to their site perhaps would end up servnig them ultimately; coz if they do SharePoint this...
Eli already blogged about the release of the new SharePoint Templates. Quite frankly that post is a killer, very complete. but here is an article up at Microsoft Watch, where Mary Jo Foley talks about Microsoft's 'quiet' release of the templates, and forecasts much more to come in or ahead of Office 12...
A MVP colleauge of mine sent me a link to this tool. Its pretty neat. It gives you a GUI from which you can dynamically invoke methods on .net assemblies via reflection. Link: http://oaklandsoftware.com/...
Mads posted about Power Aggregator from OmniSys, JOPX, Mike Walsh, and whoever is maintaining a list of SharePoint utils, thats another one for you. Personally I think this good. Having information rollup is something that is very critical to the SharePoint story. If it is not it should be, because what sells SharePoint is not only collaboration but also information sharing, and you do not always want the information on a teamsite to stay only at that teamsite. More often than not that information...
Wow. How cool would that be. Everybody's fave strategy game (well not every body, but I am pretty sure most of us have played AOE at sometime or other) might be having a MMO target in its future according to this article. I think they can actually do it. From the screens and videos I've seen of AOE3, I would say the engine is almost there. Just a bit of tweaks etc and that should be fine. Work that might need to be done is the MMO environment, Communication, Server etc. Check it out: http://www.neowin.net/comme...
A couple of my colleauges who as far as I know have all their life worked with ASP (mind you not ASP.NET, just the now aged ASP) were trying to dip their feet into SharePoint. One of them developing a paticular WSS site kept insisting on the need for an asp include file to create a bit of jazzy navigation. Now as you know SharePoint does not allow include files. So I proposed for all the links to be on a WSS list and then render the navigation by means of DVWP. Yes this can be done, but to create...
Bill Simser has a post titled "The Collective vs the Individual". He is not the first to spring up with an idea along these lines. As Mart points out in the comment thread Bob Mixon is setting up a Wiki for SharePoint information, but that isnt the first either. Around last year Amanda had a notion for setting up a Virtual SharePoint user group. Amanda is 'right on' that as individuals working on SharePoint we 'the collective' are geographically distributed. But what I have most wanted out of the...
59 Dr E.A. Cooray Mw, Wellawatte, Colombo 6, Sri Lanka +94 11 2360793 tariqayad@gmail.com M. Tariq Al Ayad OBJECTIVE An experienced Software Engineer in .NET Development with a keen interest in SharePoint Technologies and high-tech collaboration solutions, having experience in working on project teams as well as leading teams from a technical aspect Enjoys learning new skills and is confident working in different cultures. EMPLOYMENT STATUS I am currently employed but am open to discussing fulltime,...
Recently I had a requirement where the stakeholder for a WSS Site wanted what I call 'Visual Security' i.e. basically where the interface does not render what the user does not have rights to. The requirement wasnt too extensive, they just wanted a few links to lists and a few list forms hidden if the user didnt have the right to add items. And they werent moved by attempts to convince them that content discovery is a good thing. So in the end had to cough up a POC WebPart simmilar to the Content...
Sad news, I cant believe things like this can happen. I disagree with Steve Parsons loose terminology of 'Parents', That is putting it lightly I'd sooner settle to something closer to Monsters. Really irresponsible and sick...
Ian recently posted about a WebPart called R.A.D Editor. Which is actually super brilliant, and I am sure most of us would more than welcome a tool of its capabilities, but me as a developer am wondering whether the $349s is worthwhile considering the alternatives such as FreeTextBox and FCKEditor. For a simple WSS solutions it might be it might be cheaper to write a simple content editor based on the 2 mentioned above. In the long run considering my woes with SharePoint's RTE and image functionality...
Looking for a very rich, Rich text editor? Take a look at FckEditor. I know that looks like a typo but it isnt its supposed to stand for FrecCK Editor. Its loaded and there is a managed version, Java version, and a version for Plone...
A friend of mine sent me this link . Check it out - 6 Power supplies, about 20 cooling fans, and about 20 disks - woah!! That baby must be sucking the equivalent power required to run a small town ;)...
Whenever something gets popular, the hounds are waiting to pounce on it. Same with Firefox. Apparently there is a security exploit floating around the net that will allow an attacker to take control of your system. A patch expected shortly, but the work around is to disable JavaScript. OMG, can you imagine the net without Javascript, asp.net javascript:__doPostback(… held captive? And I totally support Brandon’s views. Guess I can flirt with Maxthon for a few days maybe. Source: - http://www.techworld.com/se...
Looks like the US Government is staying loyal to the Unreal Engine. Sweedes in contrast decided to go with the BF2 engine. This could boil down to just being patriotic rather than which is the better engine...
As Jeff Mentioned GWB has been getting a lot of spam, and yes I too have been a victim. But lately I've seen something different come in the way of spam. You see usually the .Text engine send you an email when a there is a comment posted on one of your blog entries, and typically for spam the message is obtrusive, unrelavant, sometimes obscene, and just play eyesore. Bottom line, you know when you have comment spam just by looking at your inbox. But heres what I've been seeing recently (but not quite...
Here are a couple of interesting links that came my way today. 1. Internet traffic analysis by NETI@Home done by the Georgia Tech University. I guess this is a cause thats a bit more down to earth than SETI@Home 2. C# Gmail API & Stuff...
A lot of people in the blogosphere have been pointing to Brian Scott’s Cropper, which I see nothing wrong with. Cropper is a very nice application Brian has put together in C#, and I am sure most of you will find a real nice use for it. Nice work Brian. Sometime back I really had the need an application like this, and I was entertaining thoughts of writing something with a similar objective. Brian thanks for saving me a lot of trouble. Now let me tell you about the idea I had. Sometime back I was...
I am not sure if you guys noticed it, but RSS Bandit is now 1.3 and has been for a few weeks now. Wolverine stalks – yay!! Nice job Dare. It’s really bloody nice and definitely capable of poking fingers at FeedDemon...
I havent blogged in a long time and I am ashamed about it, but I've been so busy lately that I just didnt have the time. Anyways here is a quick note. An expansion to HL2 is comming, and comming fast. Read about it here http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
Hey, do you remember sometime back I was searching for some CAML tools. I think I have found them. Patrick's got one at U2U and Stramit's got one too. btw, Patrick, I think you need to mention that CAML testing will only work on the same box as SharePoint is installed on. Same problem on my tool (because it uses the SP API, not the WebServices), but I am sure we SP Devs dont mind ;) Stramit's blog posting has some other cool tools as well...
Today I feel like bitching about the Area Listings template and Rich Text Fields If I said 'I wanted a way of publishing news items on a Portal' I am sure all of you working with Portal would go 'Aha use the Portal News Area", but in my opinion, the Portal news area might be cool, but it is also limited. First off all, most of the features of lists are missing. Namely The ability to DVWP the listings in an area easily Edit listings in DataSheet mode The Export to Spreadsheet is not available (ya...
Yahoo has plans to increase its free email storage capacity to 1GB To me thats like 700MB too much, but no harm in it Scoop from NeoWin. Over to you Google...
A MA based company has developed Software and Hardware that would let you control your PC just by thinking the action. Neowin has the scoop about it. "Having a chip implanted into your brain", I am not sure if I am OK with that. Control your PC with thoughts sounds cool anyways. Right now our human bodies are a bottleneck as to how fast we can do things on a PC (e.g. how fast we can send out a message purly depends on how fast we can type, not how fast we can think the message). But I am still not...
As a Site Admin dont you hate those WSS Sites that have the default 'Top Navigation' removed, leaving you with no easy way of getting to Site Settings or the Create Page? Well I do, and I resorted to drastic measures recenlty. Following Philips example I was able to squeeze a few minutes into writing a few IE context menus. Here is the replacement script for launching the WSS Site Settings page <script type="text/vbscript"> settings = "_layouts/1033/settings.aspx" create = "_layouts/1033/create.aspx"...
Cnet news.com has an interview with Ray Ozzie, regarding how he will be involved with Microsoft. I think Groove's acquisition by Microsoft will be a great thing (heck it was bound to happen anyway). I've played around with groove about a couple of years back, and I liked what I saw. Anyways in a previous post of mine about Moon Edit I hinted at how real-time interactive collaboration was lacking in the office system (SharePoint namely). This is where I feel the P2P technology behind groove can really...
Here is a list of 'command prompt' commands and tools I found. http://www.networkclue.com/... Needless to say most of them run on Server 2003
OK here is a little problem you might eventually come across if you are running stsadm backups. Fact is stsadm backups are version dependant. Now initially I assumed that it was only service packs that affect sharepoint's version, but apparently even security updates count too. Sharath points out a few tips on one of my previous blog posts. Thankfully there arent many patches for SharePoint...
I have to thank jbently for showing me zug.com through his ITunes Prank Call post. Its the most fun I have had today, for example take this first post on their site
Jbently points to this blog hillarious prank call to Apple Itunes Support
From what I know about Ray Ozzie, he created Lotus Notes, then that got acquired by IBM, and then he created Groove which will now be acquired by Microsoft. Interesting, is Ray just incubating these companies
I've always wanted to inspect the Xml result of a dwp:query. Serge has posted the xsl snippet to show this
Ok, you perhaps already know that there are components out there that will let you syndicate the contents of SharePoint sites. Rss Syndication may or may not be a welcome alternative to SharePonit alerts but lets face it for alerts regarding a site I'd prefer the Rss route, I am sure we all hate inbox clutter. So here is a list of few of the Rss syndication systems out there - Syndication Generator from Maurice - Rss Syndicator by Sig Webber - SPSynd by DevHawk Out of those 3 the one I prefer is...
Bloggers near me. Last time I checked there were only 8 on the map, Hey where are the rest of you? Go put yourself on the map...
Continuing the Half Life Saga like Blue Shift etc did, a new HL2 Mod has been announced that will involve you playing a Combine Civil Protection Officer. More details here
Have you hear of Frassle? No? Well neither did I till it came as hit when i was googling for some information buried deep in my blog. I really couldnt see the point of it. Maybe because I had too much information that needed to be read, and could spend more than a few minutes to figure what this was all about
Doesnt look all that bad now does it? A definite welcome change from all the hideous designs Toyota have been comming up with lately. There is also supposed to be a V8 version of this car sporting 350HP in the works. Check it out...
Bob Mixon pointed out this gem : CorasWorks - Free Cross-Site Search Web Part http://www.corasworks.net/l... Definitely worth a download
As some of you may already know, I have a souped up/customized version of firefox some of those extentions to sattisfy me needs. But lately Firefox has been playing up on me. As soon as I start the the thing, it goes un responsive for a couple of minutes. Whats that all about. I presume some extention is playing up. Anybody know how I can trace? Mind you I am not looking forward to reinstalling :P...
Good tip from Barry on WebPart development. http://www.barracuda.net/ba...
OK; I have been holding out on you guys. A couple of months back I was talking to Sig, and we were discussion how the entire navigation story in SharePoint can be improved. This was the discussion that started this off for me. But he happened to show me a couple of alternatives that he was working on. And this one really caught my eye. I'm talking about the 'Go To' menu on the top left. Now Sig's version there is a DVWP with some super JavaScript to crawl the DOM and build the contents of the Quick...
Mads has an initiative going to collect reports of browser incompatibility issues with SharePoint. Sig mind sharing your knowledge on tweaking those javascripts to get SPS to work A-OK on FireFox ;)...
Been wanting to post this for sometime, just didn’t have the time to do it. Ever looked closely at formulae in calculated fields? I never realized how similar formulae in calculated fields were to CAML. It’s almost a 1:1 translation. For example look at this Calculated Field: =AND(Category="Books",OR([I... CAML: <And> <Eq> <FieldRef Name=”Category”... <Value Type=”Text”>... </Eq>...
Once upon a time (not very long ago to be quite honest) I thought it would pretty neat if there were a Parser that could convert conditions written in natural language to CAML. What I wanted was a parser that could convert something like this (Column1 = Test) | (Column2 = JohnDoe) To <Where> <Or> <Eq> <FieldRef Name=”Column1”/... <Value Type=”Text”>... </Eq> <Eq> <FieldRef Name=”Column2”/... <Value Type=”Text”>...
For any of you suffering from this problem there is a kb article on this. A friend of mine actually came across this issue. The interesting point is the deliberate use a 404 Message to check asp.net version...
I started playing Half-Life 2 over the weekend. I might have previously said that FarCry is amazing. Well re. HL2, I say its mundo fun. Its easy to get lost just playing with the environment and physics rather the game. Which I end up doing i.e. kicking cans, shooting buckets just to see which way they spin, how they sound etc. This is enormously fun. I mean if valve just made a simple room with all sort utensils like chairs, barrels, buckets, TVs, glasses etc, and gave you a crowbar, or some peashooter,...
I remember seeing a tool like this before, but I couldn’t find it. Searched the net for sometime, and eventually gave up and did my own one. It’s pretty primitive at the moment, but it lets you execute CAML queries against a SharePoint list. Here is a few screenshots I’ve shared it here p.s No limitations on the code or app, do whatever you like...
When I first started with SharePoint I was pretty much surprised that the ability to create tabs was only available on meeting workspaces. I have no explanation as to why there is such a limitation. I am also currently unaware of a hack to make that system available across all WSS Sites, but here is something that I was able hooked up, and I am actually pleased with it (the main reason I am pleased with it, is because it’s nothing more than a DataView WebPart). What I wanted was a system of...
Maurice shares some thoughts on what most probably might be with the next Version of SharePoint. He also mentions vaguely the nuance of developing and deploying WebParts. The fact is SharePoint v Next will built on the next version of Asp.net. I am sure that most of you would agree that WSS is today what it is because of Asp.net. The move up from SPS 2001 or STS to SharePoint 2003 was phenomenal. All that productivity capabilities just opened up with the 2003 versions. I suspect that we can look...
As a developer wanting to create a WebPart that needs a date picker everybody will tempted to use SharePoint's date picker. Unless you know how to use it you are going to run into a couple of gotchas. Basically everybody initially stumbles, trying to find a way to get it to display. What you should ideally do to use the OWSDateField is OWSForm frm1 = new OWSForm(); OWSDateField df1 = new OWSDateField(); frm1.Controls.Add(df1); If you are creating an ASP.NET form, you would need to have the following...
Right now I think Raymond Mitchell is the bravest amongst us. Thanks for going through the pain of tolerating the exams Ray. Have anyone else of you sat for the exam yet. If so here is some queries I guess all of us would like to have answered. 1. What percentage of the questions are about SPS? 2. What percentage of the questions are about WSS? 3. What percentage of the questions are about .NET Development for SharePoint 4. Any questions on Frontpage customization of SharePoint? 5. What percentage...
Scott Hiller's book 'Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions' will be available at Apress. Here is a look at the TOC courtesy of Apress. CHAPTER1 CollaborativeApplication Markup Language CHAPTER 2 Databases,WebServices, and Protocols CHAPTER 3 Advanced Web PartTechniques CHAPTER 4 Advanced SharePointPortal Server Solutions CHAPTER 5 The InformationBridge Framework CHAPTER 6 The Business ScorecardsAccelerator CHAPTER 7 SharePoint andBizTalk Server 2004 CHAPTER 8 SharePoint andMicrosoft Content Management...
I am sure most of us are still high from the MSN Deskbar, but here is a little more intoxication. Google has a Deskbar too. Here is the link. They even have an API for writing plug-ins for it, and guess which language you get to write plug-ins in. Its .NET now isn’t that cool...
Brian Paddock has a post on how to install MSN deskbar on Windows 2003, in addition to some usefull tweaks
You know you have used too much Frontpage when You hit F12 in Visual Studio to Run a project. You hit F12 to refresh the browser You keep looking for the ‘HTML Navigation Widget’ in Visual Studio.NET Happens to me all quite often...
At last; a hack that I really appreciate. Neowin has a snippet posting on how to Get Windows Media Player 10 to install on Windows 2003. Link here. Why do I appreciate this hack so much you might ask? Well I work on SharePoint, and I currently cant see it running on Windows XP, or justify having an extra test environment for me to play around with it. Next hack to look forward to is to install MSN desktop search on Win2K3. What I know so far is that the contents of the setup (exe) can be extracted....
This one is for all you car enthusiasts. I am sure all of you have most definitely have heard of the Nissan Skyline GTR, yes we are talking about the legend here. And some of you also might know or might be freaked out by Nissans plans for the GTR. Or then again you might be mistaken. The latest I have heard is that the next car to wear the "GTR" badge is going to look like this (image below), and it might not be a Skyline at all. Yes, dissapointing isnt it. It looks more like the Infiniti G35 (Skyline...
Have you seen google groups recently. Notice the link say ‘New’ but the logo still saying ‘beta’ Its still in denial if you ask me...
I am not sure if this has been already done, but I think it’s about high time someone started consolidating a list of tools that are out for SharePoint. I am thinking of something similar to the SharpToolbox. Of course the list will not be huge like the CSharp list at SharpToolbox, but I think we’ve got enough to go around. So let me start it off by providing the ones I know, you guys can contribute by adding the ones you know to the comments system of this post, and I will update the...
Was catching up on my Rss feeds and noticed that there we a bunch of SharePoint tools released, almost as if it was Christmas already. Here is the list with my first impressions SharePoint Explorer This is a neat tool except for one annoying issue i.e.; the lack of validation specially for entering the ‘SharePoint Url’ in the Settings tab. If the URL is entered without a trailing ‘/’ it throws an exception, and oh yes when you enter your credentials for the WebService to use make sure nobody is looking...
From Greg Huges blog “Jeremy Wright, a talented and well-known blogger, is auctioning himself on eBay: “What do I get with this auction? “This auction allows you to utilize this blogger for 3 months. He will produce between 5-10 posts a week. In addition, the blogger will work with you to see what potential there is for blogging for you and your company - in effect acting as a blogging consultant for you for the period. “If it is a fit, the blogger is happy to negotiate a deal to make the position...
Just one of those fyi items Checkout McAfee Portal Shield for SharePoint...
As you might have gathered from my last post, I was able to get an ADSL connection for my home from our local telecom provider. Being connected has brought up a very new issue I have to fight, i.e. Spyware. Previously being disconnected, spyware wasnt much of an issue, but now I have to fight them off/stay away from them, tie them to a post and burn them (well that sort of thing), and heaven forbid if anything happens to my registry. Anyways I've found one Spyware remover which is pretty good. Its...
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Officially Released Download Mirrors available here Update: Dowloaded & Installed, then the following extentions got disabled due to incompatibiltiy Super DragAndGo miniT Download Manager Tweak Image Toolbar ConQuery So I am back to useing Maxthon in the meantime (I cant browse without Super DragAndGo) ...
Mike points to Lego.NET who have their first release
Is it just me or are any of you noticing this Gmail error too
Neowin is reporting that Alpha 1 of Trillian 3.0 is out. Right now I am still downloading it, btw this must be having more features or a ton more of debug message since it’s a good 4MB bigger than the earlier version. Screenshots from NeoWin here Screenshots from WinFuture here Download location here...
If you havent already, you need to check this out Source http://weblogs.asp.net/soev... "Great SharePoint Explorer tool Have a look at http://www.ontolica.com/Eng... for a great explorer tool with the following capabilities (quote from website):WSS Features View and modify the object properties of Virtual servers, Sites, Lists, List templates, Document Libraries, Files, Folders, List items and List fields. Delete site collections, sites,...
A friend of mine pointed me to this little archiver http://sourceforge.net/proj... Havent tried it out yet. Plan to compare compression ratios between it and rar in the near future. Thanks for the link Ruchith...
A good tip from Mads about speeing up SharePoint alerts
Extract from www.wininsider.com HP touts $600M from .NET packages Looking to show that its $50 million software and services partnership with Microsoft is bearing fruit, Hewlett-Packard said it has realized over $600 million in sales from the joint .NET initiative. That momentum amounts to more than 1,000 projects for nearly 700 customers worldwide, claimed Nora Denzel, senior vice president and general manager, Adaptive Enterprise at HP, who noted that the pact was not just a bunch of talk. Source:...
If you’ve seen my earlier posts on SharePoint Single Sign-On, you would remember that I showed some curiosity regarding the role of the Canary in SharePoint. So here is Chris’s (the nice chap I mentioned in those posts) take on it. The “canary” was implemented to thwart a variety of cross site scripting / single click attacks. Examples include receiving a mail with a link to a malicious web site that then tries to either redirect you to another page or otherwise use your identity...
Tejas points to the portable Firefox browser. I see potential specially if you are the type that frequents a cyber cafe often for whatever purpose. I wonder if you could configure it with extensions
Driverhaven has a benchmark review of the HalfLife Source engine, please note, I said the Source Engine, and not the game! And Xbitlabs has a benchmark review of Counterstrike Source...
For those of you who were wondering what happened after I washed my motherboard, you’d be pleased to note that after a couple of days of thorough drying it worked! That is to say the board was/is functioning, but I think with all my meddlings with it, of an earlier time the AGP slot is gone...
Lately I've seen quite a bit of content like this on MSDN, and have been wondering if these authors have lost all knowledge of Web Usability guidelines. Even if you were a programmer, you would at least be aware of the 80char per line guideline. I mean look at this my; screen resolution is 1024x768; so I cant read it, whats worse is there is no scrollbars...
If you guys haven’t caught it yet heres a few happenings · Half Life release date is November 23rd although delays are likely - EuroGamer · Wired has an article about the HALO2 team - Wired · Democrat and Chronicle on Kodak winning Java lawsuit - Democrat & Chronicle · Gamespot claiming Halo2 is done- GameSpot...
Interesting tidbit from neowin.net Microsoft Readies DirectX Replacement Microsoft is very close to releasing its newest iteration of DirectX. Dubbed the "Windows Graphics Foundation" (WGF), Microsoft will reunite DirectDraw and Direct3D into one package allowing the graphics subsystem of a PC to be completely integrated into the operating system. Reports cite the latest versions of the WGF to be at version 0.99, just shy of an initial release. The initial release of WGF will allow hardware vendors...
Did you read this news about HL2. Oh No! I forsee more delays. Half-Life 2 held hostage? Court filings show VU Games has the right to sit on finished Half-Life 2 code for up to six months. Could it be deja vu all over again? As part of GameSpot's ongoing look into the two-year-old copyright infringement case that pits business partners Valve Inc. and Vivendi Universal Games against each other in US District Court, additional documents uncovered this week reveal an interesting ace up VUG's sleeve....
If any of you haven’t seen it yet, there are a couple pics of BAR in the 555 livery. Ofcourse if you saw the Chinese Grand Prix you would already have seen the team uniforms had changed. Should tell you the BAR 555 car look really sparkling. Something to note is that BAR is one of the teams that do not have sponsors in High Tech at least not yet...
Saw this linked off Clemens’ blog. Next time I am going to read all the washing instructions on anything I buy carefully. Who knows what you might be missing...
Recently I was writing a mail to a friend of mine, who wanted to know how I customized Firefox to give me the same features as MYIE2 (which I used to love). So I thougth I'd share the content with you as well. Actually there is nothing much to it, all you got to know is the proper extension to install. My current list to duplicate most of MYIE2 (now known as Maxthon) functionality is Tab Browser Extensions (TBE) Petit TBE All in one gestures Super drag and go miniT Ie view add bookmark here copy...
My earlier frustration with a programming issue I had with SharePoint Portal Server Single Sign On (SPS SSO) came to the attention of very nice chap inside Redmond . All I can say about this chap is that he is very nice, goes by the name of Chris, and works with SharePoint Portal Server; Did I say he was nice guy already? Well anyway he is a nice chap. He was able to throw a suggestion at me that actually bowled me over. It was one of those things that go totally un-noticed until someone points it...
Looks like somebody acquired http://geekswithblogs.net and pointed it to some online webportal. I noticed it when WBEditor return 404 errors when trying to post. ---- Update: It is just me. Some stupid DNS problem me and my colleagues are facing...
Scoop from Neowin Fortunately for me I haven’t really gotten into the GMail groove, its been just another one of those mail servers on the web for me, but I have a lot o friends who rely on GMail as their primary email provider and they are pretty upset at loosing their email addresses if Google changes from GMail. Original article is here...
Greg Hughes points to the following SPS Portal on the internet. It is almost what I’ve wanted to see for a long time. What I mean I’ve seen my fair load of WSS Site samples on the net, and SharePoint customization hosts a good series of WSS samples too, but what I also want to see is a full blown SharePoint Portal Server sample J...
Here is a link to the post, I haven’t had the need to do this yet, but I’m sure sometime down the line the requirement is going to pop-up. Thanks for the info Mads...
This may be old news but… It’s nice to see a technology that was in SharePoint for sometime finally find its way in to ASP.NET. When I first got my hands on SharePoint 2003 in its early Beta stages I was totally in awe about the WebPart Framework. On this note does anyone have an idea when we will get to see what killer features would be present in SharePoint Version Next (perhaps it’s too early to ask)...
Do you guys know about these bugs? - 320439 - 817036 Well theres a simmilar issue with SharePoint, and I suspect that its ASP.NET at play underneath. Try this create a webpart that tries to transfer control onto another page in SharePoint. for e.g. protected override void RenderWebPart(HtmlTextWriter output) { try { Context.Server.Transfer(def... // Context.Server.Execute(defa... } catch (Exception e) { output.Write(e.ToString()); } } What you should see on the WebPart page is error...
With regard to my post on SharePoint field names you might find the following code snippet useful. // Initialize the list service Lists listService = new Lists(); listService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.... // Get the list schema XmlNode ndList = listService.GetList("ListNa... // Iterate through each field foreach (XmlNode ndField in ndList.FirstChild.ChildNodes) { string name = string.Empty; string displayName = string.Empty; // Obtain the nodes name name = (string)...
I found this cool ATI Site fan site.Got the link of neowin. Here are a couple of other game related links with regard to FarCry from the site - FarCry v. 1.3 and ATI - FarCry v. 1,2 and ATI...
Got this scoop of Neowin Apparently there is a build of Windows 2003 SP1 available for Beta Testers. I am just wondering what changes have been made to IIS6, and if they would affect SharePoint in anyway (good or bad) Ping-back if you guys know about SP1 for Win2k3
The inquirer is reporting that Geforce 6800 cards are all sold out, and this posting at planethalflife taunts you that if you need to upgrade then the only thing left is ATI. This subject even though is much debated about, at the moment I feel that the Geforce 6800 is the better card. For one its got Shared Model 3, and for another even though the Source engine is destined to sport more mods than any other, there are more games targeted at Nvidia today...
Looks like I've lost by google rank. I've gone down by 3 spots. I need to stage a comeback, atleast I need to think about staging a comeback, or more closer to think about 'think about staging a comeback'. :)
Recently there was this good article atHalf-life 2 fallout on the required machine specs needed to play Half-life 2. Apprentlyit looks asif even though the Source engine might work better on an ATI card, thatmight not be the best option, since there apparently are more new games optimizedfor Nvidia than ATI. It also points out the drawbacks of the Nvidia 5XXX series. Sowith the 6800 being the best, and costly option it might possibly be the way to go,unless ofcourse this guy can entice that economy...
An un-official roadmap for the NVidia chipset has emmerged. there is a screenshort of it here. Source http://www.neowin.net/comme
Wow, the Geekswithblogs.net main page has a cool new skin - nice work Jeff
I did link to this the other day, but I just wanted to repeat it. Of course there is no harm in linking to this a second time now is there? I learnt a lot from it so just wanted to point it to you guys (SharePoint admins/wannabes) again. This resource kit is fantastic, it is very detailed, and by that I mean very very very detailed; detailed as in it would teach you your ABCs too if you didn’t know to read. The resource kit goes into explicit detail on how you can expose SharePoint to the extranet,...
I am in the process of installing VC# Express edition. For some particularly wierd reason its taking an awful long time to install for me. The .Net Framework 2.0 Beta has already been installed, and now its continuing with the setup after restart. What was interesting to note was that after the Framework 2.0 was installed my Sharepoint configuration didn't work. It complained quoting the famous error "Server Error in '/' Application." followed by a runtime error, and something to with the custom...
I got the latest version of PgTgm. And it looks it has solved the SSL issue that was persistent in the earlier (0.8) version. Thanks Jon. What was interesting to note was there was an extra dll this time from Mentalis.org, so I went and checked them out, and voa, they have a really nice set of .NET classes. ~ sweet
I saw this linking on NeoWin about Fujitsu to adopt Longhorn for its mainframe technology in attempt target IBM mainframes. Now just in case I missed something, do they mean the mysterious Longhorn Server? And later on it says "It quoted Fujitsu chairman Naoyuki Akikusa as saying that it and Microsoft will use Windows Server 2003 for Intel based high performance servers using 64-bit processors in the first half of 2005." Bad Inquirer! you are going to be added to my "high probablility of being ignored"...
I think for the gazillionth time over the pass 4+ years of using Instant Messaging, I have recieved the following message "Yahoo is shutting down August 17th. Yahoo wants to get rid of free messenger. If you delete this and don't pass it on, your name will be deleted. Alot of people have already been deleted. Right click on the group name of your buddy list and click 'send to all in this group' Each person you sent it to will count as a signature on a petition DO NOT DELETE!!!! This is Yahoo President...
Looks like they have rolled out a new version - already. I think they have also solved the Firefox dance bug. Neowin on Firefox 0.9.1
Austin Wheats has a good SharePoint Blog. Heres the link
A couple of days back I ran into an issue regarding the DevHawk Rss Syndicator and access rights on lists. Here is a link to that post. Since it was a requirement on a portal implementation effort I was occupied for the last couple of days to find a work around for this, coz it could be a serious issue depending on how you've setup security on your SharePoint sites. Fortunately Philip Colmer came to my rescue by pointing me out to this entry on Austin Wheats blog. Austin explains all the issues with...
OK, yesterday somebody on weblogs.asp.net or gwb pointed out PGtGM. Whoever it was I am really thankfull. Sorry for not remembering who it was. I saw the link yesterday opened it up in the browser and went home. So today I have no clue who linked to it, and a too lazy to go through the gazillion feeds looking to see who pointed it out. Again thank you for pointing that out. Anyways Thimal and I were musing today how we could get the GMail Notification into the Trillain mail notification Window. Basically...
There is an interestnig thread on Sonu Kapoor's blog. I say "Go Nuremberg! Go". Thanks for the link Marcie
I came across SPSRssGen today. OK so this is another one that needs to go onto the list of SharePoint syndicators. Strangely enough it was DevHawks SPSynd that led me to this tool. I was looking to overcome a small issue, where when a user is requesting a feed for a SharePoint site, and if the user does not have rights to view a list, SharePoint throws an UnAuthorizedAccessException (which as far as I know cannot be swallowed), and this spoils the entire feed. So spent an entire day fuddling over...
OK I admit it,I am a big fan of the 'run command' (Win Key + R). In fact I probably use it much more than the Start Menu. I mean for all those programs that are so deep into start-menu, the 'run command' becomes so very convenient for day-to-day work. for instance - IIS Manager is : Win Key + R -> InetMgr in contrast to Start -> [All Program] -> Administrative Tools -> IIS Manger - Visual Studio is : Win Key + R -> devenv in contrast to Start -> All Programs -> MS Visual Studio.Net...
Will be going to one of our clients site over the week-end for a few weeks over the week-end. I'll be in the Boca Raton area, so if you know of anything SharePoint or .NET-wise is happening in the Florida area pls let me know.On a related but dissimilar track, the US embassy in Sri Lanka needs to provide better seating arrangement (i mean chairs) for its visa-applicants. After sitting on those chairs for a couple hours my back was being strained. And just think, at office I'm stuck in a chair (i.e....
Talk about an overloaded dose of SPAM On the lighter side - Lessons learnt from this, Do not make a post about Halo 2, it has too much of a fan base (or multiple personalities of a single individual attempting to be a large fan base) that spams you If you are making a post about Halo 2, do not call it Halo 2 or anything that would draw this enormous fan base to your blog. If you find out too many refferals from google - its early warnging - you are heading for trouble Scott should be pleased, .Text...
Found this whitepaper today. Should check it out later when I get some fre time
I would have expected this to happen sooner, but atlast it has happened. heres the scoop at netcraft.com
Patrick points to Mads Nissens blog. I came across his blog today along a compltely different track. I was searching for some stuff regarding CAML and came across his article on customizing the Areas Template.Hes got a bunch of good links at the bottom of the article
Things just keep getting better [Via Jan Tielens' Bloggings]Now thats one item off my SPS Wishlist.I am still overwhelmed by the great sense of community around this product. The newsgroups are great (well, yes theres the odd 10 or 20 posts that go unaswered everyday, but hey so few experts, so many questions) And the folks on the SharePoint mailing list are really cool too, plus all those SPS community sites like MSD2D.com etc...
1. Scoble points to posting by Dana Epp 2. Paul Vick's 10 Rules of performance
One of the nice things about SharePoint is that there are many ways of accessing the data. The most obvious is of course the web interface, but to accomplish thight integration with for example Office 2003, SharePoint offers a bunch of web services. These web services provide identically functionality as you get using the web interface; everything you can do in the web interface is possible using the web services! A nice example of the use of these web services is the integration with Office 2003....
Have any of you seen WSS FAQ? Yeah? Which one? Today I discovered there are 2 sites that go by the same name, both running on SharePoint (Can the net get any nicer?) One is the very informative WSS FAQ by Collutions and the other is the WSS Demo Site The latter I came across today whilst trying to do a google search for the former (talk about stealing someones thunder). Anyways I was flattered to see me on their blog roll along with LauraJ, but my first thought on this was, where are the others,...
Here are a few links that I found recently. SharePoint links Microsoft Whitepaper on Extranet access to SPS using ISS Server Portal on the web @ SharePointSollutions Non-SharePoint (i.e Fun Stuff) ... Modified Mag NFS community. device from Tight Audio...
There's this CNET article today that features Don Box on Longhorn. Well theres nothing pheonomenoly new there, but I ask you "Box is leading the work on the "plumbing" part of Longhorn, called "Indigo," which is effectively the successor to Microsoft .Net " - Thats interesting. I guess in future we can expect run-away headlines like "Microsoft Builds successor to .NET", ".NET done with", "Microsoft looks beyond .NET", ".NET is obsolete" etc. etc. Well you get the drift. All that is required is some...
Have you ever seen RssBandit do this? All I can say is "It wasn't me". Seriously I haven't played around or done anything funny with version x.xxx (I cant even check the version since the menubar is missing :p), well not yet. I guess it might in fact be preparing itself for something funny that I might do in future. Nevertheless that is how it looks like now. And I really miss that toolbar (I never thought I could grow so close to a GUI element). Anyways this gave me the chance of checking...
It looks like somebody forgot to turn on anonymous access at MSN. Whenever I go to msn.com or hotmail I get prompted to login to global.msads.net. Heres a quick hack - if you just say cancel - some of the adds will not be on the page - duuh
Do any of you guys visit the .NET Resource center at oriely.com. Well I didnt till today, and I see they have got some good stuff including a nice article on writing apps for the Smartphones. Now I am starting to envy all you Smartphone guys
A friend of mine sent me some pictures of how Colombo was back in the 1800s. At first I was a skeptical, and thought that they were highly bogus. For my ignorance I wasn't aware of when the photographic camera was really invented. It couldn't have been around in the 1800's now could it. Wanting to find out, I stumbled across this site. For your reference I've uploaded the images to my gallery, and if you are planning on visiting Sri Lanka, dont expect to recognize anything you see in the photos...
Deploying WebParts after you make a build is a bit of a hassle especially because you have to leave you IDE to do a couple of things. The basic process is you need to 1. Compile 2. Install the assembly to the GAC 3. Copy assembly to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\bin 4. Recycle the MS SharePoint default app pool - to invoke the new instance of the assembly -> Typically you will have to switch between VS.NET, InetMgr, and the command prompt. So here’s what I do. 1. My WebPart projects have their default...
Just wanted to bring the Quilogy Atomic site to your attention. Theyve got a bunch of .NET resources, and a couple of pointers to some good WebPart articles on MSD2D.com
Looks like theres a robot that can do Origami now. - Cool! I can actually imagine this technology being integrated with the printers of the future. Just think of how all those defective printouts can become table ornaments automatically :)
Seems like there are projects moving in and out of GDN. Moving in is fine, but about those moving out. I agree with Dare, about all the problems inherent in GDN. Even though GDN is an excellent idea, it is lacking in capabilities of an online source repository. So why not have Workspace for “GDN Workspaces” or start a .NET port of G-forge or sourceforge? And it looks like Andy is taking notice of all Dares comments...
Paschal has a post at dotnetweblogs on a couple ASP.NET lessons learnt. Just a note to SPS Developers. Dont you think this does not apply to you. One thing you should learn if WebParts are your game, pay close attention to anything that happens in the ASP.NET Custom Server control arena, because they both share the same bloodline. I took a different approach with regard to sharing SPS lessons learnt. What i did was Got the team to put up a SharePoint Social Meeting workspace. Created tab pages for...
For the geeks out there who use MyIE2 (like me) 0.9.10 has been released Feature list can be found here if you click or “News”
No no no; I am not copying the Mobile Minute or .NET Nightly. For all i know this might be a once off thing. Nevertherless Nino and J Avery sure are an inspiration (if this becomes more than a once off thing you guys are acknowledged) Anyway just wanted to publicize some links i found 1. SharePoint free online trial 2. SharePoint on TechNet 3. SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN 4. Michael Greth's Sharepoint Weblog - probably more concise and less confusing than points 2 & 3. Best if you know...
Found this one whist trying to sort out a problem with search Active Directory. I circulated the csharp help article on memmory managment that Raju had posted around work and got these ones in response. 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... 2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m...
An excellent article pointed out by Raju
Andy Santo has a tip for SharePoint on weblogs.asp.net If you dont mind Andy, I'd like to add a couple of thoughts to that. 1. If you want the code you write to be useful across many sites, theres one simple solution instead of adding multiple web references(i.e. for every site you want to change). If you peek into the constructor of reference.cs, which is generated when you add a web reference by VS.net you'd see that it has the path to the SharePoint site hardcoded. All you have to do is change...
I was trying write a webservice client to call a webservice the hardway (i.e. soap messages, webrequests ala sockets .... well atleast something of that nature) I came across this wierd issue with the following code // Create the request HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(uri); // Add the request headers webRequest.Method = "POST"; webRequest.ContentType = "text/xml; charset=utf-8"; webRequest.ContentLength = bodyData.Length; webRequest.Headers.Add("SOA... \"http://tempuri.org/GetLis...
Jeff, thanks for bringing me on board. This is my first post. The feeling I am getting from this very simmilar to my first ever Hello world program, but in this case you are really saying it to the world :) So here goes using Blog.DotTextpublic static void Main(){ BlogStream tangibleStream = DotText.GetStream("http://g... tangibleStream.Blog("Hello World");} :)...