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The value of old data

gary — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:53:00 GMT

Recently in one of my projects we had a vendor that would deliver code that they swore they tested and passed all validation tests only to have it fail on the first couple of tests every time. This was frustrating for us, since we were paying this company...(read more)

SharePoint 2010: Showing the Context menu on any field in a List View when defining lists

gary — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:27:00 GMT

I am working on a project that requires me to show the context menu on columns other than the default 'Title" field that normally shows up (at least when creating a list based on the "Item" template). While doing research I came across...(read more)

Conditional requiring of fields using SharePoint 2010 List Validation

gary — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:54:00 GMT

My customer wanted to be able to make a field required only if another field had a specific value, AKA Conditional Requiring. While SharePoint has the ability to make fields required (or even check for uniqueness) it still does not yet have the ability...(read more)

Creating a Core Results web part for FAST for SharePoint

gary — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:13:00 GMT

There are a few postings out there that explain how to subclass the core results web part for SharePoint to add your own functionality. Those work great...until you try to use them with FAST for SharePoint. For some reason they just do not seem to work...(read more)

Know thy customer

gary — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:42:00 GMT

I was reading an excellent article by David S. Platt called " Using WPF for Good and Not Evil " in which he takes a sample application written to show off Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and tells what he feels are the good and bad points...(read more)

Favorite feature of SharePoint 2010?

gary — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:15:00 GMT

There are a lot. I think that the Client Access Model is really going to change how interaction with SharePoint will occur. I can see a fully Windows based SharePoint in the near future. However, my favorite change is the new notification area of the...(read more)

Style sheets in real life

gary — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:45:00 GMT

For those who do not know, a stylesheet, AKA CSS, is used to help define the look and feel of a web page. Check out the CSS Zen Garden for some great examples of what CSS can do. While working on a recent project I noticed that the incredible web page...(read more)

Issue to be aware of upgrading Windows Server 2008 to R2 with MOSS

gary — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:40:00 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962216/EN-US First you get a message telling you to look for KB article 962935, which canot be found. One MS employee on the forum (who is really very helpful) suggested it may not ready for public release yet. If you are...(read more)

In defense of the MVP program

gary — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:19:00 GMT

Some of you may have read Joel's recent blog posting regarding the MVP program in general, and it appears, the SharePoint MVP program specifically. While some of the point raised may be valid I do not think they tell the entire story. I am not sure...(read more)

Update panel not working like you expect

gary — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:14:00 GMT

We have been using a lot of updatepanels (yeah, I know there is a performance issue but that is a different post) and, as usual, it worked great on my computer but not so great at the customer site. What the panel does is to process a search request without...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 - I want to start a trend

gary — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:18:00 GMT

Since we called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS what are we going to call Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010? MSS is already taken as an acronymn (Microsoft Search Server) but I would bet it catches on in the general population. I was thinking...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 - the year we make contact?

gary — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:09:00 GMT

Well, assuming the release schedule that Microsoft just posted is actually correct we will. Now if only they would start releasing tidbits as to what we can expect in the product. So no more MOSS, or SharePoint Portal Server. Now it is just SharePoint...(read more)

Best SharePoint site ever!!!

gary — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:38:00 GMT

Well, maybe not the best technically....or graphically, but you have got to love the subject matter! http://www.ferrari.com/Pages/Country_selector.aspx...(read more)

Working with quotes in XSLT

gary — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:40:00 GMT

I have a XSLT file where I need to pass strings to javascript. Due to the way the code is written the string designator is the single quote. Typically that is not an issue but what happens if the text you pass in contains an apostrophe, AKA single quote...(read more)

Make sure to check out the Microsoft Incentives web site

gary — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:24:00 GMT

Kind of like sales on Microsoft licenses: http://www.microsoftincentives.com/ For a limited time only! 15% off L&SA - Exchange Server Standard, Office Communication Server Standard, SQL Server Standard, Office SharePoint Server , Visual Studio Team...(read more)

Cannot unregister UpdatePanel with ID '' since it was not registered with the ScriptManager and MOSS

gary — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:03:00 GMT

I have run into this while trying to get the AjaxControlToolkit working with MOSS. Turns out there are a couple of things that can cause this. The first is using CreateChildControls to create your controls. While this is typically a best practice in this...(read more)

Sending data from javascript to a .Net object

gary — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:04:00 GMT

Recently I came across an issue where I had checkboxes outputted via XSLT (which only outputs HTML) but needed to have the values of the selected checkboxes sent to a C# object. After banging my head against the wall and trying various schemes I remembered...(read more)

No mapping between account names and security ids was done

gary — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:00 GMT

I just created a new SQL Server 2008 server with Hyper-V and was in the process of setting up my VMs complete with AD. When I got to the point of adding a SQL Server 2008 to the mix I recieved the above error when I was trying to add the domain users...(read more)

Great news in the world of Business Intelligence and SharePoint

gary — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:02:00 GMT

"PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no...(read more)

Limiting who can create a MySite

gary — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:48:00 GMT

I have had a few customers ask how they can control who can create a MySite, whether it was just for a trial run, to try to control hard drive usage, or for other reasons. In any case here is how you can do it Open the "Central Administration"...(read more)