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Copying Properties between 2 Different Types…
I’m not sure where I had seen some of this base code, but this comes up time & time again on projects. Here’s a little method that copies all the R/W properties (public) between 2 distinct class definitions: It’s called as follows: private static...
Posted: 03-11-2010 9:11 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Need a simple LDAP server for Windows 7?
Well, in the past we had ADAM – which has migrated to AD LDS for Windows – under Vista, we really only had a hack to get it (ADAM) running on Vista. Now, we have it for both Server and Client – and it’s known as Active Directory Lightweight Directory...
Posted: 02-26-2010 2:00 PM by cicorias | with no comments
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Deployment of Resource files (*.resx) to App_GlobalResources under SharePoint
This is a continuation from Deployment of Theme and Resource files Resource File Deployment (Resx) The second item was deploying Resource files to the App_GlobalResource directory present as a subdirectory under each IIS site for each SharePoint Web Application...
Posted: 01-31-2010 10:44 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Deployment of Theme and Resource files via Feature / Timer Jobs
Recently, we had a deployment scenario where we needed to deploy a custom theme and some resource files (resx) to the Farm and the Web Application zones respectively. Theme Deployment via Feature / Timer Job For the first feature, deployment of a theme...
Posted: 01-31-2010 10:32 AM by cicorias | with 1 comment(s)
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How about an upgrade - and don’t turn off Custom Errors..
Here I am just doing some banking and low and behold the bank I work with seems to be rolling out some “Pilot” stuff. From the error below, I quickly determine that they’re way overdue for moving to a later version of the Framework (I mean 1.1 come on...
Wildcard Certificates and IIS7
Let’s face it, during development, managing all the certificates if you’re doing anything with validating SSL/TLS traffic is a pain. Now with Windows Identity Foundation (fka Geneva) we really have to get crackin on getting used to managing certificates...
Posted: 12-23-2009 1:28 PM by cicorias | with no comments
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Visual Web Part Designer in Visual Studio 2010
In the October edition of MSDN Magazine, there’s a great article that does a quick rundown of building a component that can be surfaced as a Web Part via the Gallery and placed in Web Part zones on pages. The article by Steve Fox is here: Steve Fox -...
MSDN Library – Low Bandwidth Mode…
If you’re needing access to MSDN library from a 3g tethered, or low bandwidth at a location, MSDN Library is now published in a mode that lowers the payload… http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default(loband).aspx Much more detail on Scott Hanselman...
Posted: 05-28-2009 2:17 PM by cicorias | with no comments
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This version of the enterprise library cannot be installed side by side with version 4.0 on x64
When upgrading to Enterprise Library 4.1 on an x64 machine, even though you’ve run the 4.0 uninstaller, and even removed the registry key, you’ll still end up with an installer complaining that you can’t do side-by-side install.  The issue is the...
Posted: 05-22-2009 9:54 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Building a Mini URL Service – Part 2 – The Algorithm
Part 1 – Part 2 The first order of business is what URL shortening approach should be used to take some very long URL, which in IE7 is limited to 2,083 characters ( KB208427 ) and provide a nice compact link. The first part of the link (protocol + server...
Posted: 05-05-2009 8:22 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Building a Mini URL Service – Part 1
This set of posts is about a "Mini URL" service that I created initially to help provide a means to automate shortening of URL's for sending in emails to users in SharePoint. If you've used SharePoint and at times you need to send a...
Kerberos Configuration Troubleshooting
I wanted to post about one of the best tools I’ve found for getting Kerberos properly configured and in the process getting some great HOWTO information on Kerberos, how it works, etc. When working with SharePoint, and the plan is to have your site run...
SourceSafe in the Cloud – a second life for VSS
This post in no way endorses the use of Visual Source Safe, Mesh, or general supportability of this approach.  This is entirely at your own risk…. Visual Source Safe (VSS) has been around for some time.  There have been a few 3rd parties, then...
Posted: 02-16-2009 5:21 PM by cicorias | with no comments
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Try spending some time in the cloud…
Cloud services that is.  Windows Azure, .NET Services, Live Services…. If you looking for the spoon fed variety of information, a bunch of HOWTO vides have been released – see below. These are small little “nuggets” – like those MSDN Nuggets out...
Setting Navigation properties on a SharePoint (WSS) Site…
Recently, I was going through setting up some sample navigation approaches for SharePoint.  The first step was in creating a bunch of Child Sites and some basic hierarchical structure. For that I used a great tool from IDevFactory called SWAT just...
Posted: 01-24-2009 12:01 PM by cicorias | with no comments
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