February 2005 - Posts
From Tim Heuer 's blog (via Tony Dowler ): inspired by scott hanselmen's post about What Great .NET Developers Ought to Know, as well as the rush of interviews i've been conducting lately to fill sharepoint positions, i started compiling a list of questions
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This morning I came across this article: Impersonation, Single Sign-on, and SPS . It is a very interesting article that lays out how to use Single Sign-on with impersonation. So the first thing I did was to get Single Sign-On setup using this MSDN article
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Just finished uploading the RsWebParts 1.3 package to the project site . I added in a quick fix for the parameters issue. The fix is that you can now include the standard Reporting Services toolbar and parameters which should fix the problem. It isn't
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Not a very exciting release. You can get the installer and the source code (and the DwpGenerator binary and source) at the RsWebParts SourceForge Project . I'm still working on resolving the parameters issue. I think I'm close on a solution but there
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Back when I was working on version 1.1 of the RsWebParts I setup a build script for my project which I think is pretty useful. It automates the process of creating DWP files and packaging the project using the WP Packager tool . The first step in automating
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Just ran across this today: the Google Mini . Meet the Google Mini. Designed to help small and medium-sized businesses make the most of their digital assets, the Mini is a hardware and software search appliance that delivers the power and productivity
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I recently read the MSDN article Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy Document Recovery by Maxim V. Karpov and Eric Schoonover . It was an interesting read, but I was pretty amazed at the lengths they had to go to in order to get
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I looked into backing up SharePoint awhile back and didn't come away with a good solution. Recently MSDN published a new articled on How to Write a Back Up and Restore Application for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 . The first time I looked at the article
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Mark Bower notes : Gates went on to add more detail: InfoPath ‘with rich controls, on top of the Avalon runtime’, but also with the ability to ‘project onto classic HTML’. So InfoPath is likely to evolve into a Forms package that
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Wow, that was fast. Kent reports that SqlXml is deprecated and minutes later Irwin (the SqlXml PM (or is he the SqlXml MVP ?)) responds that only the MDAC portion of SqlXml is deprecated and only for versions of MDAC greater than 2.x after which Kent
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Mads created a GotDotNet workspace for tracking issues with SharePoint and non-IE browsers. I installed Firefox some time ago but but it aside since I didn't appear to do NTLM authentication which is needed for SharePoint access. One of the first posts
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SqlXml is on the “deprecated” data technology list [via Kent ]: These components are still supported in the current release of MDAC, but might be removed in future releases. Microsoft recommends that when you develop new applications, you
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I upgraded to the latest Beta of RssBandit this morning, and it already saved me a lot of time. The new skim mode is great: it shows all the unread posts for a feed and marks them all as read when you move to the next feed. Makes reading blogs much quicker
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Here is my BlogMap (via TestDriven.Net , mad's thoughts , and Mark Bower (after reading all three I had to check it out :)): Searching the blogmaps I find there are 3 other blogs located near me: Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day , e-piphany
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Note to self: The Page.RegisterStartupScript just outputs the text you pass to the method and doesn't add script tags. If you don't add script tags your text will be output at the bottom of every page (which is embarrassing). Why can't I remember this....
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I was originally going to post this in the comments on Scott 's post on the Worth(lessness) of CAPTCHAs , but my comments turned into a post. I think CAPTCHA s need to be looked at from a cost perspective versus a technical perspective to see why they
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From Barry's Blog via Serge van den Oever on RenderWebPart: When things go the way you expect, you want to render an entire batch of HTML. However, you don't want to render any of that HTML in the case of an exception when the logic in your Web Part determines
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