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...
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.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 ...
Visual Studio Maintenance Mode
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 Comm...
Review: Gmail Extension
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Installing Office Web Apps on Windows 7
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 ...