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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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
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
Eli has a write up of more V.Next features demoed at PDC. Go check it out. http://weblogs.asp.net/erob
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...
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...
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,...
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...
I've always wanted to inspect the Xml result of a dwp:query. Serge has posted the xsl snippet to show this
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 ;)...
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...
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...
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...
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 good tip from Mads about speeing up SharePoint alerts
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...