tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029965964496137152012-01-26T18:37:53.574-08:00<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MikhailDikov"><img border="0" src="http://home.earthlink.net/~mdikov/images/feed16.png"/></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;In a flat world every byte of knowledge counts...Mikhail Dikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13980715720338179589noreply@blogger.comBlogger941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002996596449613715.post-81841163973914806412010-11-20T01:30:00.001-08:002010-11-21T21:09:49.208-08:00

Several months ago our team started the transition to Agile. One of the top topics of the transition is user stories. How are stories created? How do they change in the process of planning and implementation? How to split them and how do they compare to other planning tools? This slide deck is from a workshop I prepared and our team did. I addressed different aspects of user stories in Agile.

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A second SharePoint Saturday Event in California took place in LA last Saturday at the Hilton LAX. The organizing committee chair Karuana Gatimu and co-chair Christian Buckley, once again put a great community conference. Owen Allen did a very insightful keynote on the transition of SharePoint to a business management platform. Needless to say I loved to hear him talk about ACM and CM utilizing

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Another great SharePoint Saturday Event  in San Ramon. The organizers Christian Buckley, Michael Noel, the sponsors, and the volunteers did an excellent job in providing a top notch facilities and amenities for the event. Global 360 was a gold sponsor of the event. Lots of great sessions on SharePoint virtualization, search, governance and other hot SharePoint topics. I was really thrilled to do

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Making short iterations work is hard. First the team has to find the right amount of work and commit, only to be confronted with reality and find out that the estimates are not what they meant them to be. In the first days of the iteration (T-8) the top priority stories get tackled, and somewhere in the middle of the iteration (T-5) the team has a pretty good feel, of which stories have a good

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Are you new to SharePoint, and want to find out more? Is your company already using the technology, but you’d like to expand your knowledge with best practices? Do you have specific business or technical questions, and want to take advantage of this opportunity to speak with the experts? SharePoint Saturday East Bay is an educational, informative and always FREE day filled with sessions from

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A crucial part of driving and sustaining a change towards better adoption of Agile is the opportunity to celebrate success – small wins, frequently. Winning teams have clear expectations, understandable context and the commitment to get the work done-done. Driving point in declaring small wins after each iteration is setting the scope of the iteration close to the actual capacity of the team. If

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We've all seen sessions where the power of SIlverlight is demonstrated with "Hello World!" apps and smily faces. We've also seen sessions on SharePoint 2010 that outline how to use the Client OM, but stop short when it comes to putting the complete solution into perspective. Is this enough to build well researched and designed, innovative solutions?I am really thrilled to join as a speaker and

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So you have a layouts page you used in your SharePoint 2007 product and you want to use it in SharePoint 2010. The functionality did not change much, however when you open the page it looks ugly and it uses an older SharePoint 2007 master page. What can I do to fix this, so that I have one code base that covers both platforms? One option is to dynamically change the master page on the PreInit

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In order to install a web application running only in 32-bit mode, I had to change the default IIS application pool settings to allow 32-bit applications. This worked fine for my application, however later I installed SharePoint 2010 on the same machine and when I opened the Central Administration I got the wonderful: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. No IIS logs, no ULS logs, not

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When you create a new external content type for security purposes SharePoint 2010 will not assign any permissions. The first thing people try to do is to create an external list using the external data source and try to open it. The following error occurs: Access denied by Business Data Connectivity. The first thing I tried to do is check permissions for the current user to the database and

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Living in some of the most culturally diverse and tolerant places in the US and in the world has thought me a lot about cultural tolerance, however I realize that this was a long learning process and as a kid growing in the capital of Bulgaria I simply was not exposed to the issue of cultural or ethnical diversity in the same way an open modern society does. I recall how only couple of years

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Sometimes people ask me: Why can’t you just answer with yes or no? While yes/no answers are perfect in some occasions I find that they are the absolute killer of collaborative work. A yes/no answers do not start a discussion they close it. While many developers think that a short yes/no answer makes them look more responsible and valuable I tend to disagree. What I usually want to understand is

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I recall the first time I saw the ribbon in MS office. I loved it then and I love it now. The live preview felt really nice and many frequently used features sprung out to the forefront. In the last couple of days I had another look at the use of the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 and after running some scenarios around process personas in my mind I just don’t see how the ribbon is good for the hands

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Something noteworthy happened today in the twittersphere. Two analysts from Gartner and Forester had a quick and very telling exchange about the state of BPM innovation.       Elise Olding, Gartner asked: Q:   Connie Moore, Forester responded: A:  Coming from these two

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    Charlie put out his hand and touched the screen, and suddenly, miraculously, the bar of chocolate came away in his fingers. He was so surprised he nearly dropped it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl   Every time a business finds a way to extend the reach of the consumer experience (which

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After the feedback received from the webinar in December (see previous post). Global 360 is moving away from the slide deck and providing what our audience wanted most – a live demo of the our products working with SharePoint. No frills, no smoking mirrors. Interested in seeing how you can leverage Global 360 and SharePoint to create a process platform?  Want to see first-hand how you can

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SharePoint is a proven platform for website creation, document sharing and collaboration. But, what about process management? Is SharePoint the right platform to automate and improve the processes that run your business? Two weeks ago Terry Schurter, Director of Product Strategy at Global 360 and I talked about on how to leverage SharePoint as a strategic process platform using Global 360’s

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Many novices and experienced SharePoint developers have been using the technique of hosting a UserControl in a web part. Traditionally beginners like it because it provides design surface similar to ASP.NET and allows them to be productive without learning all details of how custom controls work. ASP.NET developers entering the SharePoint world find it very convenient to reuse existing component

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  It has been a busy month getting ready for the SPC in Las Vegas. I am really proud that this time I am not going to be not only a visitor of the show, but take part of presenting what we at Global360 have been working on in the last months. We’ve been working hard on improving the integration of Process360 with SharePoint and what better opportunity to show off our work than SPC. I think we’

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We’ve been working on a lot of things that are starting to surface the marketplace in the last couple of months. If you are interested to follow the latest developments from the leading pure play BPM vendor tune in to: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Global360IncBPM Facebook: Click http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global360-Inc/106369541359?ref=nf YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/

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Just saw the videos for project Natal (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/) a new revolutionary video camera based controller for new and existing Xbox consoles. It is really great that to see that there is some competition in the new generation of console games. Even though Wii is still the true leader in this category it is refreshing to see that Microsoft will offer a comparable and

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In the last week or two in SharePoint land there were some interesting announcements and changes. The first on my list is the availability of Office Designer for free. While this product is not a spoon for everybody's mouth, it certainly makes it easier for a wider developer community to try out and use it and most importantly you can be productive in short time. This is great for many who are

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Take the survey posted by Todd Bleeker of Mindsharp here: Preferred SharePoint Development Tool. With no surprise for me with 44% at the time of writing this, the winner is WSPBuilder by Carsten Keutmann. What is your favorite?

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Isn't it great to be a "January" MVP? You always get the news for the award first thing in the morning of January 1st. Perfectly in time for new year's resolution. I am pleased to announce that I was awarded the MVP Award for a second consecutive year. This is a great honor and validation of my work for the developer community. However the most important aspect of the MVP award for me is that

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It is a popular technique to store resources, such as CSS, XSLT, JavaScript and HTML files, in resources files embedded in an assembly. This approach makes solutions more self contained and makes localization easier using satellite assemblies. The processing of the resources is usually handled by a specific HTTP handler. Many times these resources are rather static and there is no need to reload

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Recently I had to tackle some performance issues in a set of AJAX web parts. We experienced unexpected slowdowns, which were increasing exponentially with the increase of the data being handled. After some investigation I found that the code is using the very popular base64 algorithm in JavaScript. This encoding is has the advantage that it has a counterpart in the ASP.NET server side and can be

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If you tried to modify some properties of your web parts and save them from server code you probably noticed that there are some differences in the way this is handled in the SharePoint web parts namespace and in the ASP.NET web part namespace. Particularly if you are trying to save web part properties from code that is outside of the actual web part. In SharePoint land the SPWebPartManager

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Couple of weeks ago I finally came about to upgrade my laptop to Vista SP1. Unfortunately the installation failed with one of these general errors, which indicate there is a corrupt file in my system. I tried to look up the error, but the proposed solutions were so wide in range that soon after I realized that I'll be loosing a lot of time fixing this - more than I wanted to spend. Some suggested

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Recently I wrote an article about folder content types in SharePoint and how they can be leveraged to improve the document management in a SharePoint document library. The comments to the article show that there is definitely interest and potential in using folder content types, but they also point out some serious omissions. SharePoint MVP Ivan Wilson has taken things to the next level in a

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For all the AJAX and ASP.NET fans out there I wanted to point out the upcoming book by Daniel Larson (SharePoint MVP). Daniel has an impressive knowledge about what's going on in .Net 3.5 and the coming SP1. The book will guide intermediate as well as advanced developers in the ASP.NET AJAX inroads. I already had a glimpse at some of the chapters and they are impressive and easy to comprehend.

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This year Tech-Ed has two editions for IT Pros and developers. The weekend between the two events the Orlando Convention Center continues to be reserved by Microsoft. So what did the local DE's come up with? ]inbetween[ A huge community driven FREE event. Tons of speakers, user group leaders, MVPs, RDs etc. from Florida and beyond will have an enormous amount of sessions both Saturday and Sunday.

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The first week of June I'll attend TechEd Dev. Monday I'll be on a Silverlight pre-conference session and the rest of the week at the actual conference. I noticed that this time around TechEd has tons of 300 and 400 session, which is really great. It looks like every day after hours there will be a party going on. Tuesday SharePoint MVP Champions Andrew Connell and Bob Fox host SharePoint by

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Folder Content Types for IT Professionals Published in the May 12, 2008 edition of To The SharePoint Most of you SharePoint enthusiasts probably know quite a bit about content types in SharePoint. They provide the means to organize metadata in an extremely flexible manner and provide the context for workflows, custom menus, and document templates. However, due to the document centric nature of

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Every once in a while there is a technology or a service that will change our perception about the way business is done in certain areas of life. One such fundamentally different approach to healthcare is presented by Dr. Stephen Schueler and his team at freemd.com. Before I joined Global360 about three years ago, I was for almost 4 years with DSHI Systems (the makers of freemd.com) and this was

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Every once in a while I'd like to take some time and evaluate existing software that I use on a daily basis and also new programs that caught my attention recently. In this cycle I did some changes that made my life easier and I want to share them with you. I picked several software packages ranging from VM software to HDD utilities and there were some real keepers. But before I go there let me

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Every once in a while we whiteness huge deals with the equivalent of tectonic movements to shake the industry. The Microsoft/Yahoo deal would've been the biggest financial transaction of the Internet era. This deal would've impacted not only the industry and all Yahoo employees, but also everybody in the Microsoft ecosystem. This ecosystem includes a huge number of partners, ISVs and developers

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After a week in Seattle attending the 2008 MVP Summit I needed a break of couple of days before I can get get back to normal. The Summit is certainly a very different type of a conference. Here are couple of variations I would like to point out. Regular conferences dive directly from day one into regular sessions. Slide decks, presentations, code samples etc. At the MVP Summit on the contrary /I

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Three central Florida .net user groups pulled together an awesome event today. Great sessions, good and healthy food, excellent facilities, price tag -- zero! I would like to thank all of the attendees that came to my sessions. Follow the link at the end of the post to download the presentation slide deck and the sample code. Slide deck 1 Slide deck 2 Code Sample Dovizhdane!

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This is an excellent book for developers starting to get more involved in Silverlight. I already had some exposure to Silverlight from presentations, demos and screen casts, and this book helped me get the bigger picture of Silverlight by describing from A-Z the essential components and techniques of this RIA platform. Even though it is dedicated to Silverlight 1.0 IMO about 80% of the book is

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This Month: Intro to SharePoint Designer When / Where?Wednesday, April 2, 2007   - 6:30 PM EST Orlando Public Schools Administrative Offices445 West Amelia StreetOrlando, FL 32801 – 1129 How to sign up?http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=126847 Who Should Attend? Developers, designers, power users, architects, administrators. What will be covered?In this session we will dive into SharePoint

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How many times have you experienced a chilling moment when something goes terribly wrong with the system you just touched and you don't have any clue what would've caused it? In a SharePoint installation with multiple web applications and several custom solutions there may be a lot of action going on in web.config files. Even the slightest validation error in these files will bring the web

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Just noticed that the Orlando Code Camp is sold out. This is going to be another super-charged and totally free event organized by our friends at ONETUG.org. I signed up as a speaker with my two sessions from South Florida Code Camp. They were very well received in South Florida, so after some adjustments I decided to give them one more run. Come with your experience and ideas and lets talk about

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Every once in a while when you create a web part or upgrade web part, or do some of things developers do when developing web parts, there comes the chilling moment, when you see an error message such as the one below: So the question is what do we do in this case? Before you hit the discussion boards, or worse, start pulling your hair, here are couple of tips you can use to troubleshoot the

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Create Shared Resource Assemblies in Visual Studio 2008 Couple of months ago in this post I described how to overcome the fact that resources in Visual Studio 2005 are compiled by default as internal. The need for public resource classes and shared resource assemblies is obvious in larger projects that span across multiple Visual Studio projects. A new feature in Visual Studio 2008 allows

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What a great event that was! The FlaDotNet user groups put together their 4th code camp with absolute ease (or at least they made it look like this) and with lots of sessions to choose from. For those who came to my sessions, one big "Thank You!". Please follow the link at the end of the post to download the presentation slide deck and the sample code. After I finished with my "work", which

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South Florida Code Camp 2008 Yet another totally free event organized by developers for developers in South Florida will take place next Saturday, February 2nd, 2008. Dave Noderer and crew filled up the agenda with 72 sessions (That's right 72!) divided in 12 tracks. For full information go to http://codecamp08.fladotnet.com/. On this code camp I have two sessions. One topic, split in two

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Using ASP.NET development server for testing with WatiN For many ASP.NET and Sharepoint developers WatiN (http://watin.sourceforge.net/ ) has become a frequently used tool to create functional tests and eliminate manual testing as much as possible. In my environment I use WatiN from within NUnit tests. To integrate all of these components in my Visual Studio setup, I also use http://

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Joe Healy and Visual Studio 2008 come to Melbourne If you are a software developer or IT Pro don't miss the opportunity to learn about the latest improvements in Visual Studio 2008 from the source. Joe Healy is the regional Microsoft Evangelist developer and editor of the regional MSDN newsletter. When: January, 22nd @ 6:30PM Where: Charlie and Jake's on Whickham Road in Melbourne To

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Impressions from Visual Studio 2008 Last week I was able to finally use VS 2008 in a real project. I was working on some web parts and ASP.NET controls and it is great to be able to use some of the improvements in the web development environment. #1 on my list is the CSS management and the improved design time support. Now we have the split view, so you can actually see code and design at the

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Microsoft MVP Award A day ago I received an E-mail from Microsoft that I have received the 2008 MVP Award for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. What a great start of the new year! This award is a great recognition for my SharePoint sessions on several code camps in Florida, my blog and other work I have done in the developer community. It is also a great motivation for what I have in mind for

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SCDNUG 2007 Retrospective 2007 was a great year for the Space Coast Dot Net User Group (SCDNUG.org). Ken Tucker the leader of the group and Microsoft MVP was able to invite all kinds of speakers starting from Scott Guthrie to local speakers, such as Christian Loris, Walt Williams and myself. Ken worked to improve the image and the message of the group and at the end of the year we even started

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The book Pro SharePoint solution Development, Combining .Net, SharePoint, and Office 2007 written by Microsoft insiders Ed Hill, Susie Adams is an indebt review of how to utilize SharePoint in the Microsoft Office ecosystem. This book from the Pro series of Apress delivers a variety of advanced examples, richly illustrated with sample code, downloadable from Apress, and step by step

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Support multiple scopes in SPEventReceiver class Quite often when I create a feature SPEventReceiver I am not certain what would be the best scope to use it. In other situations I am copying existing code from a feature scoped differently than the newly created one. After couple of these you get tired of trying to find out what is the actual meaning of the properties parameter, as it changes

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November SCDNUG Meeting, Great Event Tonight's meeting of the Space Coast Dot Net User Group showed what user groups are all about. Ken Tucker (MVP) presented Introduction in Linq. The informal atmosphere and the fact that most of the attendees already knew each other, enabled a great dialog and discussion. We also kicked off our book review program and Walt Williams volunteered to write a review

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Using ASP.NET AJAX extensions in SharePoint WebParts As I mentioned in my previous post I a while ago I started working on a project with AJAX enabled WebParts. I already have been playing with AJAX and also working with SharePoint and WebParts in my previous projects at G360 and in the .Net community. Nevertheless I did not get a chance to work with both technologies in one project, so there

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Recently Scott Schwarze from the Orlando chapter of MOSSMOSIS invited me to talk about SharePoint WebParts and related issues. I was trilled to do this since I already started an AJAX project and it was great to have an opportunity to share some of my experience. The title of the talk was "SharePoint Web Parts - from Hello World to ASP.NET AJAX extensions", in which I gradually build up an AJAX

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Microsoft releases source code for .NET Framework 3.5 Last week ScottGu in his latest post unveiled a plan by Microsoft to release the source code of .Net Framework 3.5 to developers under the Microsoft Reference License and to add automatic debugging support for the framework libraries in Visual Studio 2008. Needless to say this is one of the biggest steps the software giant is making to help

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SharePoint Resources, Types, Use and Deployment (Update) For sometime I wanted to make an update to the deployment method for RESX files I proposed in a previous post. Even though there is nothing wrong with using custom jobs to deploy any file from a WSP solution to a SharePoint farm, I found about another option, which is a bit easier to implement. The code used to copy the resource files

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One Closed Chapter is a New Beginning Today Global 360 released Insight360. This is an incredible product, which allows business analysts to create business models, run simulations, what-if scenarios and optimizations in a collaborative environment and finally deploy the optimized process in production. Read more about it here: http://www.ebizq.net/news/8449.html?rss As a member of the R&D

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Jacksonville Code Camp 2007 summary I would like to thank everybody who came to my session Developer's Introduction to SharePoint at Jacksonville Code Camp 2007. In this session I added an example of using RunWithElevatedPrivileges and a test code example based on WatiN, to create a functional test for the demo web part. You can download the slide deck and the code from here:

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Jacksonville Code Camp 2007 Another code camp on the horizon. This is the first time I am going to be in Jacksonville and I am looking forward to meet the local geeks and to see one of the most beautiful cities in Florida. The area has very strong developer community and a lot of talented people. Some of them I already met at other code camps and TechEd and I expect to meet them and many

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The new release of WSS SDK I was pleased to see some good additions to the WSS SDK in its latest release from 7/13. I am glad that Microsoft took into account a lot of community content and included information that was circulating blogs, CodeCamp sessions and newly released books for some time now. The articles, which explain how to create solutions and the principle of deploying and retracting

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Tampa Code Camp One big Thank You to all of you that attended my Tampa Code Camp session "Developer's Introduction to SharePoint". The presentation and the code sample are available for download here : TampaCodeCamp2007.zip. If you have questions related to the sample post a comment to this message. The code camp was really big. The attendance was well above 300 and probably reaching 400.

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RunWithElevatedPrivileges, watch out for the site context Soon or later most SharePoint developers use RunWithElevatedPrivileges. We do that either to grant temporary access to files and folders not accessible by the current user or to execute some other action, which requires higher privileges. One thing I constantly forget about that always gets me with an "Access denied" error is when I omit

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A busy month of learning and creating June turned out to be a very busy month. I started with a weekend in Orlando for the INETA summit, where I learned quite a bit of how user groups are functioning and contributing to the developer community. There were representatives from groups small and big, from all over north America. This meeting definitely inspired me of some activities that can

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Using satellite assemblies in SharePoint applications (with a twist) What I like about the way SharePoint stores localization resource files is that all strings are stored in central location. This makes the maintenance a bit easier (you don't need to hunt down all files that need translation) and allows ad-hoc changes without the need to recompile. On the other hand it's kind of hard to make

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Do you want to know what Steve Jobs thinks about the Mac ads? Have a look at this entertaining and unique joint interview with the leaders of the long time rivals. VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel Dovizhdane!

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Why use SPJobDefinition in SharePoint Resources deployment Recently Matthias Glubrecht and other readers of my post SharePoint Resources, Types, Use and Deployment asked me why do I use a custom SPJobDefinition to deploy resx files to the App_GlobalResources folder. The reason is simple (I remember when I asked Vincent Rothwell the same question and he was kind to explain this to me), the event

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Creating Dynamic Breadcrumbs in SharePoint ASPX Pages If you already played with custom layouts pages in SharePoint you probably noticed that the breadcrumbs are missing. In a recent post Vincent Rothwell explains how to enable the breadcrumbs in ASPX pages placed in the LAYOUTS folder of SharePoint. Since the stock layouts pages use the SPXmlContentMapProvider, which in

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Couple of days ago we added a big zip file to our SharePoint deployment and out of the sudden the solution started behaving strangely. After some trial and error Robin found out that every time we cross the 360KB limit we have a problem. Wait, 360KB this rings the bell, but it was such a long time ago. What was it? You guessed it right the default limit for file size of makecab.exe is 360KB the

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Where are my SharePoint features? On several occasions colleagues and some of my blog readers asked me questions about how to locate a particular SharePoint (WSS v3 or MOSS 2007) feature. In most cases the feature was placed correctly in the FEATURES folder in the 12 hive, but they couldn't find it in the SharePoint UI thus they were not able to activate it. Since this happened more than three

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SharePoint Resources, Types, Use and Deployment In the recent weeks one of my tasks was to work on the localization of a WSS solution and deployment of resources to WSS sites. I found that this topic is still not well explained and there are not too many sources that describe the specifics of using and deploying resources in WSS 3. In this post I'll explain the differences in the use and

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I have always used guidgen.exe to generate GUID. It comes directly with VS and it is available out of the box. This tool generates the GUID in four different formats, unfortunately all of them contain some extra characters, plus you have to copy & paste it to your code and clean it up. Torben suggested this VS macro, which actually inserts a clean, capitalized GUID directly where you need it.

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Definition: acquired taste Something one learns to like rather than appreciates immediately. This weekend I finally got some time to make the step and upgrade to Vista. There's been a lot of talk about what it does better and what it does not. Nevertheless I am getting the impression that the media and some colleagues are concentrating a bit too much on the negatives. Well there are issues

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SCDNUG February Event Yesterday I presented Windows SharePoint Service 3 for Developers to the Space Coast .Net user group. The PowerPoint file is available at SCDNUG web site. We talked about some of the most important improvements in WSS 3. The agenda was: SharePoint products and acronyms The tree faces of SharePoint SharePoint & ASP.NET Improved deployment tools SharePoint

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Configuring the breadcrumb for pages in _layout and how to deploy the map using features While working on custom pages located in the _layouts folder, I noticed that the breadcrumb was missing. I found this great post which explains not only how to update the site map, but also suggest a method of merging the site map with custom site maps. http://blog.thekid.me.uk/2007/01/17/

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South Florida Code Camp (continued) As I previously said the SharePoint track at the South Florida Code Camp had a full day of sessions. All of them very interesting and presented by some of the best regional SharePoint MVPs. Here is a list of all other sessions: Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts for WSS v3 by Andrew Connell (MVP) Don't

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South Florida Code Camp What a great event! The SharePoint track at the South Florida Code Camp was really packed with interesting presentations. I was presenting my session "Understanding Windows SharePoint Services Framework", which shows how to create a WSS solution from scratch. (Unfortunately VSeWSS was not ready for this event and was not presented). One big "thank you" goes to all

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I'll wait until SP1 comes out... Couple of days ago I received an E-mail from the IT department. The subject was Microsoft Vista and Office 2007. In the E-mail he takes a position that became quite popular lately: Don't bother installing newly released software because we are not going to support it until SP1 comes out. The usual IT concerns about things not working as expected and being so

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SafeControl Registration in WSS Solutions While getting ready for the South Florida CodeCamp session on WSS Solution Framework, I've noticed an interesting feature of the deployment mechanism related to the registration of SafeControls. Prior to this little discovery I was using Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector to obtain the full assembly name including version and public token. It turns out

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Configuring URLMembershipCondition for individual assemblies and the $AppDirUrl$/bin/ path for WSS solution. In a previous post I described how to configure CAS within WSS solution. At the time I used a membership condition based on the key blob. This works fine for signed assemblies and allows us to create one permission set for a group of assemblies. In our deployment however we decided to

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Two methods to determine the permissions for your assemblies I don't now about you, but when I need to perform one action more than a dozen times, there is the unmistakable suspicion that either it can be automated or there is an easier way to do it. In my previous post I talked about how to configure CAS in WSS solution. One piece of information I need to complete this task is to compose a

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Configuring Code Access Security in SharePoint Solutions Continuing my quest to explore all details of the new solution framework in Sharepoint v3 I stumbled on one issue of great importance: Code Access Security. There are several options when it comes to configuring the CAS. Install the assembly in the GAC Set the trustlevel of the web application in web.config to Full Create a

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SharePoint solution manifests inside and out One of the major improvements in WSS 3 is the new solution framework, which allows the deployment of Web Parts, Features, assemblies and other files to SharePoint site or farm. The process of deploying a WSS solution has several stages: (1) Creating the solution contents; (2) Compiling the WSP (CAB) file; (3) Adding the solution to the SP site(s);

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Today I installed the release version of WSS 3.0 and everything went smoothly. The install was a breeze, as expected. I noticed immediately one change that makes live easier. The folders for the virtual web sites under wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories are now named after the port the site is using not the GUID, which is much better to work with. Dovizhdane!

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Today I did the Subversion demo for SCDNUG. Here is a link to supporting presentation. http://scdnug.org/files/folders/presentations/entry90.aspx I used a VM on a laptop with 1GB and I really did not anticipate that it'll run so slow. I guess when you are in the spotlight all PCs go a bit slower than usual. Point well taken... Next time take a beefier machine or just don't run everything on VM

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At the November meeting of SCDNUG, which is next Wednesday 11/15/2006, I'll be speaking about Subversion. It has been a real pleasure to work on this project mostly because I really enjoy working with Subversion. Here is what I am going to talk about:Review Subversion’s key features and advantages (speed, less maintenance, flexibility, low cost)Compare Subversion with VSS Instructions how to

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Today Microsoft announced Express Upgrade to Windows Vista for purchases made between October 26, 2006 and March 15, 2007. It is really strange that many manufacturers and Microsoft made a lot of people feel warm and fuzzy with the Vista Capable PC label attached to most if not all new systems, but now they may cut off many of them. However if you purchased a Vista Capable PC before October 26

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October Meeting - Russ Nemhauser Ineta will be providing Russ Nemhauser to speak at our meeting October 18. The meeting will be held at the Space Coast Credit Union Corporate Headquarters Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts Web Parts offer ASP.NET 2.0 applications the ability to provide powerful personalization functionality. In this session, you'll learn how Web Parts are implemented in

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After couple of weeks playing with WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 features, solutions and their deployment, I realized how central stsadm.exe for all this operations is. One way to go is to use bat files, but since I always forget command line options, I decided to create a simple user interface that saves keystrokes and help lookups. The tool incorporates the stsadm's help, so it is very easy to figure

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For those of us addicted to virtual machines Sysinternals' tool NewSID comes in handy every time we clone that CleanSomeOs.vhd file. It changes the SID of the virtual machine in a snap with its wizard interface and unlike sysprep you do not need to re-configure localization settings. However if you plan to install Windows SharePoint Services (WSS v3) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS

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Tonight at the SCDNUG meeting Jon Goodyear from ASPSoft gave an excellent demo on some tricks with MasterPages. The examples were original and useful. If you use or are about to use MasterPages in your projects I highly recommend this presentation/demo. Jon will be speaking next in Orlando, Thursday October 26, 2006 7:00 PM. For more information visit ONETUG. Dovizhdane!

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Developing SharePoint WebParts with generic controls is a straight forward task. For such WebParts we can always use a development Web site in our Visual Studio environment to work on the details and then deploy the control to WSS. With complex WepParts using specific WSS features this is not the case. The control has to be deployed to the WSS server after each and every change. Once you

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Recently I was asked to research the features of Subversion as a replacement of MS SourceSafe. At the time Subversion sounded Chinese to me, but I kept an open mind and knowing some of the limitations of SourceSafe started looking into this open source SCM. And what a great surprise it was. The product has excellent features, it is very scalable and it is documented very well. In addition the

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