SQL Server 2008 Service Weirdness
Two weird things I learnt about SQL Server while building the SharePoint 2010 Service Manager.
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SharePoint 2010 Service Manager
With the final release of SharePoint 2010, I finally had time to brush-up and release the Service Manager that I wrote sometime back when the 2010 betas was ...
Visual Studio 2010 Installation Issue – Setup Failed with HRESULT -2147467259
If you Visual Studio 2010 setup keeps failing when it tries to install the Visual C++ runtime, here’s a quick fix for you.
Icons & Illustrations for SharePoint Architecture Diagrams
A picture is worth a thousand words. Like me if you spend a lot of time writing up functional specs and architecture diagrams and are looking for ways to co...
.NET 4 Free Beta Exam Vouchers
Looks like I somehow missed this. Free vouchers for the .NET 4 (Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams) are available online in the Born to Learn blog. I couldn’t reg...
SharePoint Client on Windows 7 Phone
Yesterday I was excited when I could download the Win 7 dev kit, but that turned to disappointment when I realised that I could only run the application that...
Get Safe File Name
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 ...
SharpSvn: A Primer
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 myse...
Workflow does not start automatically when bulk inserting items
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.
Implementing Business Rules in a SharePoint list
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 ...