Localizing the Microsoft Surface Shell
The Microsoft Surface is a Windows Vista computer running the Microsoft Surface Shell. This shell is by default localized for US English. It is possible to localize for other locales, but there is no...
View ArticleMicrosoft extends support for WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007 and Project Server SP1
Today the news broke Microsoft has extended the support for installations of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and Project Server 2007 SP1.
View ArticleCould not load type IDataServiceUpdateProvider when using REST with...
I wanted to use the new REST services in SharePoint 2010.But when I navigated to the ListData.svc service. I got the following error: “Could not load type...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V 2.1 Beta
Today the Microsoft Virtualization Team announced the availability of the new beta version of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V.In this post I will try the new features.
View ArticleUsing the Surface SDK with Visual Studio 2010
With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 this week a lot of people will start upgrading to the new version. After the installation was complete I noticed the Surface project and item templates were not...
View ArticleMake your PowerPoint Presentation look good on a wide screen projector
The other day I attended a meeting where the presenter switched from a PowerPoint slide to demonstrate an application. When he made the switch it was quite obvious the beamer was setup to only display...
View ArticleUsing the people picker over a one-way trust
When you have a SharePoint farm and you want to use accounts from another domain you need a partial (one-way) or a full (two-way) trust between those domain.A full trust is not always desirable and...
View ArticleKeeping your SharePoint 2010 development databases small
With SharePoint 2010 the amount of databases on your SQL server has grown quite a bit. By default most of these databases have their recovery model set to 'FULL'. After some time you will discover...
View ArticleJoining an IQueryable with an IEnumerable
With the introduction of LINQ the difference between writing code for accessing a lists of objects in memory and accessing a list of data in an external data source like SQL is vanishing. Combining a...
View ArticleConfigure people picker over a one-way trust using PowerShell
In a previous post I have written about Using the people picker over a one-way trust. In this post I use STSADM commands as there are no other ways to configure this. A downside of the STSADM command...
View ArticleTranslating URLs using Alternate Access Mappings from code
With SharePoint it's easy to configure multiple zones for your SharePoint Web Application. For example you have a Publishing Web Site with two zones.After the content is published it'll also be...
View ArticleMake your browser cache the output of an HttpHandler
Recently I worked on an HttpHandler implementation that is serving images from a backend system. Although everything seemed to work as expected it was discovered images were requested by the browser on...
View ArticleMigrating a catch-all maildir to Office 365
I've been running my own mail server at home for years. But it requires a reliable connection and some maintenance once in a while. And of course it always breaks when I'm on the other side of the...
View ArticleProvisioning a default layout and content when adding a wiki page
Recently I was challenged with the task to set the layout and content of a wiki page when a new page is added to a team site. As I'm used to work with SharePoint publishing the task sounded easy, but I...
View ArticleFiltering on a tinyint with Entity Framework
When writing .NET code to access a SQL database we often rely on the Entity Framework (EF). The EF makes it very easy to retrieve data from the database by generating a SQL Query for us. But we should...
View ArticleDotNed Podcast: “Michaël Hompus over Serious Request en Windows Azure”
dotNed is the Dutch .NET user group and organizes several meetings each year for the .NET community. Maurice de Beijer interviewed me about my experiences using Windows Azure to build a high available...
View ArticleSpeaking at the Dutch Techdays 2013
I am invited to speak at the Techdays 2013 in the Netherlands. The event is held on the 7th & 8th of March at the World Forum in Den Haag.
View ArticleBackup your Azure SQL Database to Blob Storage using code
With Windows Azure we can use Windows Azure SQL Database service (formerly known as SQL Azure) when we need a Relational Database. Microsoft offers a 99.9% monthly SLA for this service. But Microsoft...
View ArticleMake pull-down-to-refresh work with a Windows Phone virtualizing list control
The other day I was working on a Windows Phone app. I wanted to add a "pull down to refresh" panel to a large list of images. Just like the Facebook and Twitter apps have.As Microsoft does not provide...
View ArticleGet the Entity Type Code using JavaScript only (not using remote services)
Every Microsoft Dynamics CRM developer has faced this problem: How to get the entity type code for your custom entity in JavaScript. If you need the entity type code for the current form there are...
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