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Get Safe File Name

By Merill Fernando On March 15, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Tips
Here’s a quick utility that might come in handy. More than once I’ve seen code where the invalid chars were hard coded. The Path.GetInvalidFilenameChars has been in the .NET Framework since 2.0. The thing is you would expect something like this to be in the framework itself. /// <summary> /// Removes invalid characters from the [...]
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SharpSvn: A Primer

By Merill Fernando On March 12, 2010 · 7 Comments · In .NET
The SharpSvn library basically gives you a .NET interface to all the operations that you would normally perform through a tool like TortoiseSVN. I found myself needing this exact library while writing a tool that changes files that have been checked out from SVN. The problem with manipulating files that are under SVN is that [...]
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Workflow does not start automatically when bulk inserting items

By Merill Fernando On March 11, 2010 · 1 Comment · In SharePoint
This had me tripped for a while. I was bulk inserting items (~800) to a list which had event receivers as well as a workflow attached. The problem was that the workflow was not being triggered. Or if it did it just hung at In Progress. After poking around for more than an hour I [...]
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Implementing Business Rules in a SharePoint list

By Merill Fernando On February 25, 2010 · 5 Comments · In SharePoint
On the project I am currently working on I had to implement a custom business rule for a list. The requirement was that only users in an Administrator group should be allowed to edit a particular field. All other users can edit that list but they are not allowed to touch that particular field. Given [...]
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Visual Studio Maintenance Mode

By Merill Fernando On December 19, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Tips
I started working my way through the hands on labs in the SharePoint 2010 Developer Evaluation Guide and found that I was missing the Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt in my installation. Gabriel’s post explained why. I typically don’t install VC++ on my dev boxes and apparently this is a known bug in VS 2010 [...]
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Review: Gmail Extension

By Merill Fernando On December 14, 2009 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
Chrome opened public extensions just a few days ago and already the quality of extensions available are awesome. Take a look at the Google Mail Checker Plus extension. The preview window itself is awesome and it works for GAFYD as well.
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Installing Office Web Apps on Windows 7

By Merill Fernando On November 23, 2009 · 5 Comments · In SharePoint 2010
If you haven’t heard of Office Web Apps before it’s basically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote running inside a browser. It lets you edit documents right within the browser. A bit of history You can be forgiven to think that this is all new. The truth is that a skunkworks team within Microsoft built a [...]
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Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7

By Merill Fernando On November 23, 2009 · Add Comment · In SharePoint 2010
Here’s a quick summary of how I installed the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010. Minimum Requirements: - Windows 7 64 bit: What this means is that your workstation needs to be 64 bit and you need to have the 64 bit version of Windows 7 installed. Setup: The key document that you need to [...]
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Windows 7: WiFi slow to connect or Limited Connectivity

By Merill Fernando On November 18, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Tips
I’ve been having this frustrating issue for the last month where the laptop would take about 10 minutes before it was able to connect to the internet. This happened even when the machine came back from sleep/suspend mode. The Wifi connection would be detected immediate but I would not get an IP from the DHCP [...]
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CKS: World Clock and Weather WebPart with Proxy Support

By Merill Fernando On November 18, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Utilities
I recently had to add proxy support to the Community Kit for SharePoint: World Clock and Weather WebPart. IT Teams usually like to lock down the proxy server and are not happy when they need to allow anonymous access for outgoing requests. Looking around none of the the free ones seem to support this. Not [...]
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