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All right I admit, that's a very abstract title for a blog post, and its not eye catchy or snazzy as something like “What to do when you get a “Object reference not set to an instance of an object. exception on a SharePoint farm that uses SQLSessionState. “ But hey its supposed to grab your attention if you are having this problem. Ok so the error is Server Error in '/' Application. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution...
I am not using Windows 7 (at least not yet), but I am using Windows 2008 R2, which has the Windows 7 shell. I've been using it a couple of days and I like it a lot, I find the new win7 ui-shell very usefull, very productive. There are things I like a lot in it that makes my life easier. Specially 1. Improvements to Windows Explorer, Favorites and Libraries 2. Jump Lists 3. The new taskbar 4. How the Show desktop button is non intrusive, but readily accesible 5. the new tray area with app icons hidden....
There is a new version of Office Communicator Mobile available. But one feature that I really want is still missing, i.e. for COMO (Communicator Mobile) to run of the storage card. Microsoft Guys please can you add this? The main memory on the phones are not huge you know, typically about 100 MB or less, which gets consumed by every other app for some reason or other wanting to dump some files into the /Windows. Technet points to the folowing "Can I install Communicator Mobile (2007 release) on my...
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...
Amazon is offering pre-orders for Windows & Home Premium at $49.99 as well. Just a heads up because I thought previously thought the offer was only from store.microsoft.com Link:http://www.amazon.com/... from tariqayad.com...
Saw this two posts on Gizmodo. WOW, I thought surface was commercially still some time away. http://gizmodo.com/375055/a... http://gizmodo.com/375328/a... Technorati Tags: Surface,Microsoft,AT&T Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Not that I use these things much, but on a few other occasions I have had the need to use Google Documents, and was quite contempt with it. The scenario where I would personally see the need for these kind of applications is when I want to share documents and stuff, and also be restricted with not having the Office programs available, e.g. WebCafes etc. So today moved by all the hype around the announcement of Office Live Workspaces I gave it a try, and I am impressed. The interface looks elegant,...
The InsideMicrosoft blog has a scoop spilling out a few details about Windows Mobile 7. So far if this is true the OS will be awesome. Not sure about device support, the feature spectrum hints at motion sensors and multi-touch. http://microsoft.blognewsch... Technorati tags: Windows Mobile 7, Touch, Motion Sensor Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Yes, that's the question I have been pondering for the last couple of hours (maybe more). And I am begriming to believe that it cant be done. Other than for the route of either writing a feature receiver to upload the template to a list on activation (but I think this approach is unclean) or modify onet.xml (a site definition?). I think both approaches are unnecessarily complex for the task at hand. Think about it, just so that I could have a custom document library or form library with a custom...
"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...
Here are few lessons learnt from playing with the BDC on a project 1. Even though the BDC can crawl associated entities in your database schema, the search results will not show related entity instances for the item you searched. 2. In case of mapping 'complex' db schemas specially ones that contain m:n relationships between entities, sometimes it might be advisable to show un-normalized relationships via stored procedures or views, but this approach provides the following roadblocks Un-normalized...
Something thats new to anyone comming from SPS03 or WSS 02 is the logging in MOSS/WSS3. In MOSS/WSS3 SharePoint does some good logging and the log files are stored in "%commonprogramfiles%\Micro... Shared\web server extensions\12\logs" Technorati tags: SharePoint, Moss, WSs, Logs 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...
The other day I was totally playing around with configuring SharePoint to recieve emails. I totally went to town with with configuring Virtual Server (VS), Creating a Private Network within VS, and setting up MOSS Virtual Machine (VM) and Exchange/DC VM. For some reason I couldnt get far. I see the messages I send in Exchange's queue, and on the MOSS box in IIIS under SMTP Sessions I see a session with the Exchange box. But thats it, my lists dont recieve the emails I send. Anyways enough of my ranting,...
I was playing around with Mart's idea and wanted to 'step through' the Infopath Down Level Script. So how do you debug wsh scripts? That is a question that has been asked before in the newsgroups. The best answer I could find is this response by Michael Harris. Solution: wscript /d /x <script file> where /d = Enable Active Debugging /x = Execute script in debugger Technorati tags: Debugging, WSH Scripts, js, Debugger Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
In a MOSS publishing site (can I say CMS 2007?) there is an editor in which you can change the navigation elements shown on the Top Navigation. At first glance you would assume that it would be easy to manupilate elements on that top navigation bar through code. Infact Todd has an in-depth article showing you how to add and remove items from the navigation bar. But have you tried to hide an element. Its not as easy at it would seem. TheSPNavigationNode.IsVisible propperty is readonly, and I am yet...
Where do you go to download VS2005 Extensions? Seriously where do you go? How do you know what the latest CTP is? of if an Extension is released or is in RC? Its weird but www.visualstudio.com (aka http://msdn2.microsoft.com/... doesn't list any, netfx3.com doesn't list any of the extensions or the CTPs. Googling for an Extension by name is of no luck, the result takes you to a download page for the most referenced CTP (which may not be the latest). Speaking of CTPs how do...
I had this requirement recently where I restored a database, and wanted to grant a particular user execute rights to all the stored procs in that db. Not wanting to go through the tedious manual operation of granting permissions to each and stored proc out there, I found this tip in the newsgroups. Kudos to Rick Sawtell for this clever SP /* Procedure to Grant EXECUTE permissions on all * user defined stored procedures in the database * to the user defined role db_ProcExecuter */ CREATE PROC [dbo].[usp_UpdateProcPermis...
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...
Via digg There's an article on Arstechnica that says that a study has been done that shows the Aero interface in Vista does not affect performance. I am not digging that too much coz on my Vista Capable notebook (Dell Inspiron 6400 w/ the Intel 945GM Express graphics card & 1GB of RAM) I found that explorer.exe was taking up 35 - 40% of my CPU. Performance was much better after I disabled glass. Glass was enabled by default when I installed Vista, but now I keep it off. So the bottom line is...
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...
The Microsoft Support Site lists all the shortcut keys for Windows. Theres a few in there that I didnt know either. The list is at http://support.microsoft.co... tags: Shortcuts, Windows Cross-posted from tariqayad.com
Here's the link http://www.microsoft.com/te... tags: WSS v3, Sharepoint 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...
The Microsoft Office site has a page that lists pricing for the Office System. It lists down the pricing for each of the products as well as the suite/editions and the server products (oops scratch that. Office Servers are only available through volume licensing) Wait, Office Servers only available through volume licensing? hmmm... I am confused but no time to ponder, anyone else have clearer idea on how this would work? tags: SharePoint, Licensing, Office Servers, Office Pricing Cross-posted from...
The New York Post is carrying an article about "prequel?" to BattleStarr Galactica that would focus on how the Robot war began. Now I am a huge fan of the reimagined series, and since it is not being aired in Autralia I have to resort to other means of getting my BSGS fix during my stay down under. The post also carries this blurb "The story, Moore says, "centers around two families, one of whom owns an enormous corporation, à la Microsoft, and it builds the first Cylons; then the other family is...
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,...
Fortunately if you are dealing with IE7 or anything other than IE6 you wont have to deal with this issue, and most of you web developers probably already know about this solution to make pngs transparent for IE6 I also came across this javascript to embed an png on to a page, and it would render the appropriate tag to display it according to the browser. tags: IE 6, PNG, Transparency Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Yay! There is an update to the SDK to reflect WSS v3 B2 TR. Looks like the OSS SDK is still on B2 (i.e. not TR) tags: sdk, wss, sharepoint, v3 Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Having to upgrade servers to B2TR today, I was wondering, it would really be cool to have a tool that could backup ContentTypes that you have defined using SharePoint into a feature definition. That would actually make defining ContentTypes as a feature more easy, provide a means of porting them between servers, and also assist as a means of fascilitating granular backup. Does anyone else see eye to eye with me on this? I am thinking that if Microsoft doesnt have this on their radar it might be an...
The SharePoint Team blog points to the SharePoint Beta 2 Technical Refesh download links. The ful list is on the Microsoft Download Site as they say. Heres is the link sorted by date (descending order) so that 2007 B2TR downloads are on top Link tags: sharepoint, beta 2, technical refresh, download Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
This MSDN Mag article by Scott Roberts and Hagen Green has a very comprehensive rundown, and mini tutorial of InfoPath 2007. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... Topics discussed are InfoPath Forms Services, Hosting InfoPath in a managed/unmanaged application, Document Information Panels and much more. Technorati : 2007, infopath, sharepoint Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Check out this awesome awesome list of freebies from Microsoft. http://bhandler.spaces.live... This is a lot more than just Power Toys, its a really really big list. I something that I've longed for, i.e. - GroupBar (just wish it was easily downloadable) Technorati : freebies, freeware, microsoft Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
So I spent my first day at my new employer's and I am not as impressed as I innitially thought I would be. Spent most of the day setting up or trying to setup MOSS 2007 Beta 2. Ran in to a couple of issues innitially. First there was the issue of a concurrency problem when configuring MOSS. At stage 8 in the configuration process, the Configuration wizard it gave me the following error. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Admini... was thrown. Additional exception...
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...
Not sure if MS will listen to me but my #1 request for the Zune/Argo is that it should support the Compact Framework. I am very dissatissfied with the ipod, I mean the ipod in itself is the most closed system I have ever come across. You can not do anything with the content you store on the device other than what is in built. I do hope that Microsoft sees this shortcomming and makes the Zune a cool platform mobile content platform for which apps can be written for. Technorati : Argo, Zune Cross-posted...
Windows XP product documentation on the NETSH command. Pretty handy if you want to write a few bat files to switch ips. http://www.microsoft.com/re... Cross-posted from tariqayad.com
Engadget has the scoop on a deal with FIA and Microsoft The article says that the FIA and Microsoft have come to an agreement where Microsoft will exclusively supply the ECUs for the F1 cars for the 2008 season. I kinda suspected that Microsoft could sponsor some F1 team, but never this. Link Technorati : F1, FIA, Microsoft Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I and a few others were on on a call with Microsoft Consulting (India) who were giving us a presentation on SharePoint 2007. Interestingly the consultant said that the Beta is good for deployment and the only changes to be expected in the final from the Beta would be minor stuff like 'UI look and feel'. And there I was thinking "Bullshit!". It just could have been the consultant trying to make the sale, but he should know better than to bullshit with people who actually use the product. Any who....
Does your SQL 2005 Express feel lonely? Is it missing pubs and northwind? Dont fear, you can get the .sql files to recreate them here. Your SQL 2005 Express will thank you for it! Technorati : express, northwind, pubs, sql 2005 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...
Niall Kennedy announces that Scoble is leaving Microsoft. Quite a shocker there. But its true. Scoble had a huge impact in changing Microsoft PR at least did a whole lot to get the "word" out there. I wonder who will be filling in his shoes. Technorati : Scoble, leaving, microsoft...
I was trying to setup WSS v3 on a VPC today. The setup went fine, but then the configuration (I mean SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration) failed about 4 times at the “Registering SharePoint Servces” i.e. 5/10 stage before it finally continued. I really dont get it. The exception in the log says this 05/27/2006 17:16:52 10 ERR Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPExce... ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlEx... Cannot open database "WSS_Search_HEX" requested by the login....
WMP may not equal Windows Media Player in future. Microsoft have apparenlty announced a compressed image format known and Windows Media Photo (WMP) which provides a 20:1 compression (JPEG provies a 6:1) Where I see this being of much use is in camera phones or other devices where taking pictures isnt its main purpose. Will it affect digital cameras? I dont think it would (atleast not in the serious level). There is a reason why Raw is chosen as opposed to JPEG...
Heres a tip from the newsgroups. How do you remove an autocomplete entry (email id) from the Outlook. A: When it pops up, arrow down to the entry you want to remove and press delete NG posting is here
I think the SharePoint show is a really great idea. Its only at episode 3 so far and I am loving it. So far most of the material we’ve been seeing about SharePoint that comes from outside Microsoft is by way of blogs and articles these have mainly been literary pieces, i.e. most of them lack personality and voice (I mean most of them are text). The SharePoint show on the other hands adds that human touch which is quite awesome. Kudos to Gene for comming up with this. As someone who works with...
Mart already blogged about this, so go check it out. I might as well add that if you are are a vendor that delivers solutions on the office platform you might be missing out if you dont check it out. Any one in paticular you should take a look at? No, check them all out :) but this might be a good starter Office 2007 WSS Collaboration...
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...
Yeah, to say “I’ve been out of it” is a major understatement, and I blame work for it, well dont we all. But without me knowing it, looks like Windows Media Player 11 sneaked out. As I would have previously mentioned I am a bit of a fussy PC user, always wishing things were more optimal, so stay tuned for my critical review (atleast I hope there will be one). So if you want it, go get it here...
If you need to ask then you probably wouldnt understand ;) For those of you who do ;) ;) Microsoft RAW Image thumbnail viewer– get it here, and Happy shooting. Btw also to fuel the ageless debate – RAW or JPG
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...
Found this cool Photo-sharing software today. Its called PixPo and its free. and if that isn't saying much its pretty cool for sharing as well. You can share your albums over P2P or via email. Their site is http://www.pixpo.com/ and they have a version of the software for video sharing as well. The downside of this product is that it isnt a really good photo organizer, but its good for sharing. From the products perspective it would have been great if they had the option to publish photos as well....
When I started my browser today I was greeted with the following announcement. Upon the official invitation by Microsoft, the Maxthon Team will join the International CES 2006 show on Jan 5 to Jan 8, 2006, Las Vegas, USA. As the sole browser partner of Microsoft, we will share our understanding on how to improve user's internet browsing experience there, and present a whole new full-featured Maxthon Browser. Neat huh? Let the speculations begin...
Are you confused with the new namespace alias qualifier ‘::‘ in C# 2.0 MSDN gives a brief explanation. But Jerod Moemeka has a very good write-up illustrating the whole fiasco
Sometimes those really simple small apps can be really cool. Recently Arian Kulp published a little time tracking app to msdn in the coding for fun section. This is a nice tool that lets you puch-in and punch-out times for projects that you can define.
The Windows 2003 Resource Kit brought us a tool (which perhaps was present in other resource kits as well) which is the windows equivalent to the tail command. Tail.exe as it is rightly named shows the last x kb of a file on the conosole (command line) even when the file is being appeneded to. Looking for a GUI version I found Wintail at baremetalsoft.com...
I was just listening to the recorded PDC session on by Anson Horton (Download, Stream) on Tips and Trick for VC#2005, and he mentions that you could navigate backwards and forwards across the go-to definition stack using buttons on an explorer mouse. Thats when it struck me that a cool VS2005 power toy would be to have mouse gestures within the IDE. Infact this is not a new idea, the question has been asked by Sean Labaree before. Infact I am kicking myself in the ass for not seeing that post and...
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....
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...
Nope, not by me, Better minds have already done so and you can follow/contribute to the thread here on the newgroups
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 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....
Our friendly SharePoint “Microsoftie” Mike Fitz has dropped us a big one. He has a post listing out some of the features of V.Next. Just looking at the ‘listed features’ which I believe isn't all of them, theres only one thought on my mind; i.e. “Woah!!!! Thats awesome, ME WANT NOW!” RSS. Everything about sites, lists, libraries, etc., can be syndicated via RSS automatically. Blogs and Wikis. Templates and features in the box. Content Types. These aren’t...
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...
Via Mart, I had a suspicion that this would happen, and seems like I was right. First it was Biztalk needing WSS as a pre-requisite, then Project Server running on top of WSS, and then there was speculation that there would be a product merge between CMS and Portal Server. “Via WSSDemo.com and eWeek we can read that the next versions of MS CRM and Axapta will use WSS for additional functionality. “The Redmond, Wash., company is building out functionality across its MBS product suite,...
The MSDN site has a section up on modding for HalfLife 2 The page features the use of Visuall C++ for modding HL2. Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/c... Source : http://www.planethalflife.com/
Tim points out a utility for SharePoint from WinApp Echo. I faintly remember that someone mentioned that this was demoed at TechEd in the MS Partner section (I could be mistaken). I would agree with Tim that some of the features provided by the tool might be accomplished by directly manipulating the SharePoint Database (which is unsupported). But at the end of the day if you are managing a large Portal Setup what the product offers is ‘must-have’ features (i.e. in contrast to ‘would...
Zdnet has an article about an interview with Robert Hilf on Microsoft's strategy at interoperating/competing with Linux. Its an entertaining read: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-
It’s about time this happened. According to Reuters Intel are redesigning their chips. As quoted in the article considerations going into the design are "multi-core technology" and "energy efficiency". As it is, the number 2 reason for the sale of Intel chips here in the eastern world is the fact that they generate less heat (AMD being their competition). If Intel's brings in an even more energy efficient line of chips, the cost efficiency of those AMD chips might not be enough to keep selling them....
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...
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...
Apparently there is a chart webpart at the FrontPage add-in center. Go check it out - http://www.microsoft.com/fr
I came across her blog when going through the Newgroup trying to be a good samiritan. She blogs SharePoint, MCMS, and Web stuff (my cup of tea)...
A couple of blogs and online magazines asked the question "how will Vista be with games?" "But the big news, obviously, is the new OS. "When people want to show off what Vista and DirectX 10 can do, people will be showing off games. That's what [Microsoft's] executives do," says Wickham. Most will have to wait for a big consumer unveiling of the new OS this coming January at CES, yours truly was on-hand to see Windows Vista in action." - Microsoft's Lisa Sikora, Product Manager for Windows Gaming...
Recently we had a need to autofill some dropdowns in an upload form based on query parameter. Sounds pretty easy right? After all, this just involves adding some JavaScript onto the page to pick something from the query string (lets say an index for convenience), then manupilate the DOM to set selected item index of the html "<Select>...</Sele... corresponding to the choice field you desire to the value obtained from the QueryString. But the only problem is, this is SharePoint and things...
I came across 2 good On-Demand Webcasts at Microsoft Webcasts that detail how Microsoft hosts its SharePoint insfrastructure, how the manage capacity planning, performance, and detail out best practices for your SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does SharePoint Portal Server Hosting (Level 300) TechNet WebCast: SharePoint Performance and Capacity Planning Best practices and Lessons Learnt (Level 300) Here is another one worth looking at for your SharePoint...
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,...
Fortune.com has a joint interview Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates on Information overload and the future of Email. This is nothing new but the following is explicitly stated "Would you like to use e-mail less?Gates: Sure. We're going to make SharePoint [Microsoft's team collaboration product] a clear adjunct to e-mail. So if we have an event coming up, we can create a shared workspace that contains the documents instead of having a chain of e-mail back and forth with lots of enclosures. " "What about your...
Fortune.com has a joint interview Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates on Information overload and the future of Email. This is nothing new but the following is explicitly stated "Would you like to use e-mail less?Gates: Sure. We're going to make SharePoint [Microsoft's team collaboration product] a clear adjunct to e-mail. So if we have an event coming up, we can create a shared workspace that contains the documents instead of having a chain of e-mail back and forth with lots of enclosures. " "What about your...
Faced a dilemna with a SharePoint box recently. This SharePoint box had been running for over 4 months, and had over 500 users using it daily. Its not a dedicated server box, but more of a PC that runs as a server. Its local HDD capacity is 40 Gigs split up into 2 20GB Partitions. Most you might think that is OK (I innittially thought - what the heck, its just WSS hosting 1 site). But remember 500+ users on a daily basis. IIS Logging was turned on (default settings + few other properties for a usage...
Thanks to OliverLu for pointing this out http://www.microsoft.com/do...
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...
News.com reports that Macromedia is being taken over by Adobe What has me in a tangle is what is going to happen to the product line especially for graphics editing. On one hand we have Macromedia with Fireworks, Freehand, Flash and the other we have Adobe with Photoshop, & ImageReady...
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 think .TEXT/CS:Blogs needs a better UI for administration. The reason I say this is because fighting comment spam/blog trolls and managing posts is not optimal. For instance if I were to delete one wanted comments from a post one way of doing it right now would be to login to the administration section, then click on the feedback section which shows you all the feedback on your blog. So here are the problems I see with it There is no option for sorting, grouping or filtering comments. Ideally you...
The download of Fabrikam date for Fabrikam has been pushed. This time to April. Can I say typical MS Release pattern. But then again, I am not complaining
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...
I was browsing through sandbox.msn.com & I found Netscan which seems to a very interesting system that will show you statistics of newgroup usage. So here is the statistics for microsoft.public.sharepoint... http://netscan.research.mic... Darn, its been so long since I've hit the newgroups. Just been too busy these days...
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 noticed a couple of weird happenings with Windows Server 2003. It’s really peculiar. It’s the second time I am facing this problem which happens automatically (i.e. with me doing nothing to cause it) and after a long duration of using the machine. So what are the symptoms? When you browse the network, the domain you are on is empty. You can’t see any other machine on the domain. Other machines cant see you on the network You cant access fileshares on other machines. Trying to access \\ComputerName...
<WebPartPages:DataViewWe... webpart="true" runat="server" __WebPartId="{4587D743-B2CB... xmlns="http://schemas.micro... xmlns:dvwp="http://schemas.... <dvwp:XSL><![CDATA[ <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/... xmlns:d="http://schemas.mic... version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl ddwrt msxsl" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas...
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”>...
Added Extra types to SPQueryTypes enum SPQueryTypes { Integer, Text, Boolean, //Added by Tariq (01/Feb/2005) Calculated, Attachments, Choice, Computed, Counter, CrossProjectLink, Currency, DateTime, File, Guid, Lookup, ModStat, Note, Number, Recurrence, URL, User, } Added Comparision Operator for LT and GT class QLt : ITestOperator { IQueryElement qe; public QLt(IQueryElement queryElement) { qe = queryElement; } #region IQueryElement Members public string Output { get { return "<Lt>"+qe.Output+"<...
namespace Test { /// <summary> /// Summary description for MainStream. /// </summary> public class MainStream { // 3=Width2=Yield1=Zorder|& // W3=Y2=Z1=|& const string cond = "( ( F1 = 3) & ( ( F2 = 2 ) | ( F3 = 1 ) ) )"; public static void Main() { ArrayList conditionList; conditionList = Parser.SanitizeCondition(co... conditionList = Parser.PrepareConditionList... string caml = Parser.CreateCaml(condition... Console.WriteLine(caml); } } /// <summary>...
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...
It looks like Fabrikam will be avaialable mid Feb 2005. Thanks for the heads-up Arnon
<WebPartPages:DataViewWe... runat="server" WebPart="true" __WebPartId="{8054042D-D31F... > <WebPart xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.or... xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.or... xmlns="http://schemas.micro... <Title>Tabs</Title... <FrameType>None</F... <Description /> <IsIncluded>true</... <PartOrder>1</Part... <FrameState> Normal </FrameState>...
Yes its true, take a look at any of the default WebParts or ListViews in SharePoint and you can learn a thing or 2. For instance recently I wanted to find all the related items in an issues List. I was stumped until I took a look at the CAML in the default Issue Item Edit form, which goes something like this <Where> <And> <Eq> <FieldRef Name="IsCurrent"/> <Value Type="Boolean">1</Val... <And> <Neq> <FieldRef Name="IssueID"/> <Value...
Code samples for MSDN Magazine have been released. The WSS Recycle bin is included. Btw did you notice the page goes as this " "Source Code—2005 February 2004 — Vol 20 No 2 Download all the code from February MSDNMag0502.exe (3,487 KB) ….. January 2004 — Vol 20 No 1" Yes, I know, adjusting to 2005 is so hard. I still sometimes write the date as 2004 too...
Scoop from Lockergnome Don’t want to jump on anybody’s case, primarily because I am unawares if there was a specific ‘Service Pack2’ for IE or if the article is talking about SP2 with regard to XP SP2. Full article is here But if this is XPSP2 I sure as hell wasn’t expecting to see it, at least not so soon or not so severe. Obviously there’s something very wrong. If XPSP2 was supposed to be an initiative that championed Microsoft’s effort with regard to security this isn’t adding any credibility....
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...
Here is the TOC of Scot Hillers book 'Advanced SharePoint Solutions' About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...
There’s an article at the SBS center at Microsoft.com on how blogging can help your business. Check it out here. http://www.microsoft.com/sm...
Fyi http://support.microsoft.co... I wouldn’t exactly call that renaming, its more like re-installing to me...
Got this scoop from Microsoft Watch There is a new server codenamed R2 that’s destined to be released sometime in the near future. Apparently it looks like an upgraded version of Windows Server 2003. Here is what got me interested “Microsoft officials have talked publicly a couple of times since this spring about which of the more than dozen feature packs that it plans to fold into R2. Among the ones that are definites, according to partners: Active Directory Federation Services (a k a "Trustbridge")...
Technet has a couple of usefull articles on SharePoint Portal Server Installation and Migration. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/te...
Heres a patch for SharePoint that I didn’t know existed. Its pretty old too (dated 10/15/2003) and that’s the bit that has me puzzled. Wasn’t SharePoint released in October 2003. That would mean this patch came out 15 days after the product release...
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:...
Is it just me or is there something funnily wrong with the archived WebCasts on Microsoft.com For example click on the link SharePoint Implementations in the Real World - Level 200 on this page. What I am currently getting is an error message saying “The Event you are searching for does not exist. …”...
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...
With all the different posts running around about the Starter Edition of Windows XP, I was writing a post myself on it, but I am going to save that for another time. Anyway I was going to link to the following articles Seattle Times Article on Windows XP Starter Edition Microsoft Press Release on Starter Edition The Register on the Starter Edition Techdirt on the Starter Edition But.... Just a bit of commentry Right now I think there really is no value in the Starter Edition, infact its 800x600 resolution...
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...
This hit my scanners today. A couple of folks from Microsoft and Sun have left to join Google. So far it is rumored that Google is planning on building a web browser. What I don’t understand is with FireFox, Mozilla, Opera, etc why bother. But then I am inclined to think that it might be a contribution to the Mozilla effort or a spin-off based on Mozilla. The other angle to this is that now Microsoft and Sun might have a few vacancies J Any predictions anyone on what the browser will be called. How...
My machine crashed today! and I am a bit puzzled about it. The crash was a BSOD crash, with the Stop error being 0X000000008E (0X00000005, 0X80588318, 0XF4E4ACC4, 0X00000000). Right now I blame the hardware, from what I have read typical reasons for the 0X000000008E crash are either the memory or the BIOS. Anyway while I was in a foray seeking out a reason for the crash, I came across this thread on the newsgroups about a user facing the 0X000000008E Stop error, which eventually turned out to be...
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...
Actually I am complaining about very simple bit of code. It is so simple that even I could write it (or copy and paste it) a million times. All I want to do is to set a user’s Credentials into the Single SignOn database from a WebPart, but the frigging thing keeps failing. string[] rgSetCredentialData = new string[2]; rgSetCredentialData[0] = "2ser"; rgSetCredentialData[1] = "rb26dett"; Credentials.SetCredentials( 1, "TestSSOAPP", rgSetCredentialData); The error returned is SSO_E_CANARY_VALIDATION_FAI...
WSS SP1 KB Article http://support.microsoft.co... SPS SP1 KB Article http://support.microsoft.co...
I found out today to my surprise that you can actually use the DataView WebPart (and all all the other SharePoint WebParts) as a control in a WebPart that you are creating. Isn’t that sweet? Its also remarkably easy to use. It goes something like this class YourWebPart : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPar... { ... private DataViewWebPart dvwp; ... protected override void CreateChildControls() { ... dvwp = new DataViewWebPart(); dvwp.DataFields = DATAFIELDS; dvwp.DataQuery = QUERY; dvwp.Xsl =...
Fyi. http://msdn.microsoft.com/l...
I found this interesting MSKB article whilst searching for other related information. http://support.microsoft.co... As Ian constantly acknowledges, I agree, the DVWP has enormous power and I mean way beyond just XSLT filtering. If the dataquery syntax can be mastered then the potential of the DVWP is multiplied. Now I need to go find a good article on the DVWP query syntax and its capabilities...
Bob Mixon points out to this up coming MSDN WebCast on the power of DVWP. I am sure Ian will be pleased...
Patrick Points to the fantastic resources for SharePoint that are hosted on GotDotNet. What I want to know is when did this page get published? If I had known about this stuff earlier it wouldn’t have been easier to develop a tool (A Parser for STSLogs) that I already have – grrr! I perhaps need to keep a closer watch on the MSDN technical articles section in future. It would surely help if you could Subscribe to an RSS feed for a particular section in MSDN (wishful thinking J ) Hmmm looks like there...
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)...
Another one of those SharePoint Portal Server mysteries. Recently a colleague of mine was facing this dilemma. After a restore of a certain teamsite on SPS, the Search results weren't showing the contents. When she tried checking the gather log for the NonPortal Contents index it contained the following error. “The address could not be found, (0x80042616 - Error in the Site Data Web Service. ) Value cannot be null. Parameter name: uriString” Unfortunately there is a very non-relevant MS KB article...
This is a problem I keep running into quite often and today again I spent an hour wondering why my code wouldn’t work. What I was trying to do was to use the Lists WebService (i.e. lists.asmx) to add contents on to a WSS list via the UpdateListItems() method. The reason for the hiccup in the code was that when trying to add a value to a field whose name consists of multiple words (for instance "Last Name") the field should be referred to with a "_x0020_" separating the words (i.e. "Last Name" becomes...
Thanks to Scotts post I now know the new download url for Lookout
<rant> Usually being at office is mostly work, and I guess that’s what an office is all about, and but working for ISV with very demanding clients, usually means that work nothing but work and usually the work environment reflects this. It’s an ‘all serious’, ‘very busy’ (a.k.a. ‘high stress’) place. However yesterday brought a little change to the usual hectic day at work, there was a virus attack and this brought little entertainment, an opportunity...
CNET RSS Feed Item "Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search. The acquisition comes two weeks after the launch of a revamped MSN search. Source: http://news.com.com/Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search/2100-1032_3-5271825.... Just imagine how Powerfull Outlook would be if they provided it as a freebie companion...
Was checking compatibility of the Office 2003 WebPart today. On a machine that doesnt have Office 2003 installed the WebPart gives the following error. "To use either the Spreadsheet Web Part or the PivotView Web Part, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later and the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components installed on your computer. See the Microsoft Office Web site for more information. Install the Office 2003 Web Components." Interestingly enough the link pointed...
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 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"...
Off of Techdirt. Yahoo Blocking Trillian Again -- This Time They Say They're Serious In the ongoing battle to keep their markets smaller, rather than as large as they can possibly be, the various instant messaging platforms still refuse to come up with a single standard to communicate across systems. Every time I complain about this issue, someone says "just use Trillian." That would be a great solution if the various IM providers didn't keep blocking Trillian. Yahoo has now announced that, not only...
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...
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...
Heres a great example snippet on how you can join two DataTables in CSharp. IMO this should really replace all this nastycode posted on the Microsoft Knowledge Base
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...
Tim points to the VisualStudio Team system. This looks absolutely cool, would love to see the finished product
Didnt know Microsoft had a dedicated section for SharePoint on Office online. Check it out: http://office.microsoft.com... Theres a lot of links to white papers, tools, etc
Recently I noticed a neat fact about the Search Results WebPart; that is how it responded to a failure with the index database, and I think this is pretty cool - "Hats off to Microsoft, for thinking about this" Consider a situation when the SPS is unable to connect to its Search Indexes, like for instance due to a database corruption, or the configuration database account being invalid, then as a result of this severed connection the search shouldn’t work (obviously), or perhaps give horrendous error...
Off of Slashdot - Guardian article on as Sweedish stealth ship that runs on NT. A side thought - "maybe Microsoft Marketting should speak to the Sweedish Naval Command and try to sell a couple Windows 2003 licenses."
MS Watch has an article thatdepicts that the Tablet PC might have a shaky future.I surely hope that the Tablet would live on (& like every other person amhoping that someone would be good enough to gift me one :p)
Draft1-(wanted to post this before I forget I was writing this in the first place :) ) Over the past few days I've been playing around with WordML; and I think the possibilities for it from the point of view of an Intranet, are really exciting . Consider Ian Morrish's example of a WordML document being displayed on a WebPart page. With a few tweaks to the XSLT, you can limit the visible portions of the document to only that neccesary for public view. Stuff you would need to play around with this...
Never thought I would see the day when this would happen. Scoop off of Slashdot...
If you aren’t already aware, IISToolshed has a good list of tools for IIS...
Pls ignore this Test Posting using IntraVnews 1.1 - Blogging from outlook...
Quote: “Newell: "delaying the game to 2005" 167 Comments 4/18/2004 20:35 PST | Half-Life 2 | by redef VG Pro has a small article that contains a quote supposedly from Gabe Newell. The quote suggests that HL2 could be pushed past a 2005 release date if Valve felt it was necessary. Here’s the quote: We've already spent millions into this project, and we're willing to spend as much as we need to make this the best first person experience ever. If that means delaying the game to 2005, we'll do it without...
First to fend off any SPS discriminations I might be accused of- Mike I am writing this with my knowledge of SPS, do not know if it applies to WSS, since I do not have a WSS Configuration to try it out on separately. Secondly fiddling with SPS database is not recommend, do it at your own risk K OK, I had this scenario recently (actually about 2 weeks back). An intern colleague of mine had to do a bulk upload of a bunch of documents to a SharePoint team site, which is not very unusual if you are trying...
This is another page that Microsoft needs to update on their site
Here are a couple of links in relation to performance. James Edelen's response to a query about SPS Performance Paul's stress tests and scenarios. Microsoft's clustering FAQ SharePoint Capacity planning - MS Should update this, atleast remove the Beta bits from the content I know there must be a bunch of more interesting newsgroup posting regarding this subject, so if you know any one that is noteworthy please post a comment pointing to it...
Its been so long since I checked up on my latest feeds, things have been keeping me busy. Well its partially work, and partially trying Frozen Throne, and since I really got into FT I'm really weak.hmm heres a thought, being a guy who plays too much with Microsoft Technologies, and a guy whos eagerly awaiting "Longhorn", out of loyalty do I play orcs, and go Taurens??? :)Anyways had a quick chance to skim through the latest happenings around the net and this caught my eye.San Fransisco hosted the...
Thanks to WebDAV it is possible access SharePoint sites as NT Shares in the form of \\<ServerName>\sites\... But just fyi it doesnt work on the Windows2003 box, and sometimes not on the rare WinXP box. The usual resolution is this
This article was in Windows Platforn newsletter today (could be older, but I only read the mail today).Its a very good resource to give a quick heads-up orientation of SharePoint
Mike Gunderloy has a nice article describing the use of the WebServices of SharePoint.There is also this MSDN article on the usage of the List Data Retrieval WebService
Here's Microsofts directory of Webcomponents for SharePoint
Off of Reuters.Microsoft have apparently teamed up with RSA to provide a more stringent security authentication mechanism for Windows based on RSA's SecurID
I came across this link a couple of days back, and I was playing with this feature in Frontpage today.Its pretty cool that you can pull your data from a datasource whether it be a database, xml file, webservice etc.., and generate a view like this above image is from MSDN articleonly with a few clicks. I am sure this one feature that any Portal designer will really love, coz I know a couple of dudes within the company I work for who eventually end up coding the UI front end, and database connection...
Got this off Wininsider.com Microsoft has released a connector for integrating SharePonit and MS CMS 2002. I just cant wait to see it in action. Hmm need to go find myself a MS CMS Server now
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....
Microsoft's new site!! Well not really, just pre-emptive action agaisnt a possible DOS attack by MyDoom.B
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...
Recently I had the issue of dealing with SPS2003 and Extranet access. The issue is ofcourse no issue at all, but just the problem of how to add external users (i.e. ppl outside your Windows domain) and users of the Portal. Here are a couple of links that would aid anyone else who wants to achieve this. Google indexed discussion @ microsoft.public.sharepoint... Whitepaper on how to Expose WSS through MS Small Business Server. And there is a whole email thread on this subject at sharepoint@yahoogroups.com...
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...
I use to find the Microsoft Webcasts a great resource. It is very usefull for finding out about a new Microsoft technology or really comming up to speed about a technology concept. Infact I was quite a proponent of it claiming that Microsoft are real nice people making such great resources available (for free I might add). And I am sure the webcasts did their own bit in marketting MS products and technologies. It used to be quite fantastic. Yes I said “Used To Be“. Previously you could...
<rant> I use to find the Microsoft Webcasts a great resource. It is very usefull for finding out about a new Microsoft technology or really comming up to speed about a technology concept. Infact I was quite a proponent of it claiming that Microsoft are real nice people making such great resources available (for free I might add). And I am sure the webcasts did their own bit in marketting MS products and technologies. It used to be quite fantastic. Yes I said “Used To Be“. Previously...
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...
I got Halo for the PC. I've been playing it for about a day now and I am mildly disappointed. It’s a good game, the game play is good, the graphics even better, but there are things about the game that are just make the game un-interesting. First off the story line is not very gripping. There doesn’t seem to be the dire need for you to save the world and humanity from its demise. I mean you can play the game or not play the game, but you don’t feel the need to 'have to play the...
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...
Looks like Barbara Gordon joined Microsoft. Way-ta-go Ms Gordon Barbara Gordon was a top sales exec at Sun, and previously was Sun Chairman, President and Mr. McNealy's chief of staff. But now shes VP at Microsoft handling stategic global accounts
http://www.wired.com/news/g... Extracts The specs have a tiny television screen embedded into one of the lenses and are hooked up to a PDA. The PDA can be programmed to send messages or images to the screen. Each prompt is geared to jog the wearer's memory And all of these messages are flashed before the eye at 1/180 of a second, so the wearer isn't even conscious that they have been sent I can already think of spooky implications, like on my day off, my boss finds a way to...
I scooped this article off my newsreader. It may seems as if Microsoft has had enough of all the slandering with regard to security comming from the Linux camp. It might be a good move if the analysis shows positive results, however as with all vendor funded analysis reports credibility might be an issue
Just a note, Before you develop, first check MSDN, then check to see if any of the functionality you require is not already exposed as WebServices. Sometime back I spent a lot of time (since the SDK for SPS 2003 was not released at the time) writing code to create custom lists such as Discussions and Surveys. It was kind of frustrating then to be coding in the dark, but was equally rewarding when it worked. What’s frustrating now is discovering that all I had to do was a call a WebService...