January 2009 - Posts

Installing SharePoint on Windows Vista
16 January 09 07:52 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
Check out this article on Bamboo Solutions to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86 . We use that here in our office for demo laptops. It allows us to get the best performance when demoing our SharePoint products at shows by letting Read More...
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Hristo Pavlov's Blog on AllowUnsafeUpdates in SharePoint
14 January 09 02:05 PM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
This is a great post. A lot of good research was done to get to the bottom of this complicated topic. Check it out here: What You Need to Know About AllowUnsafeUpdates Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it Read More...
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SharePoint Saturday: Developing and Packaging a Third Party SharePoint Solution
12 January 09 10:34 AM | jacobl | 2 Comments   
Here are some notes from my presentation at SharePoint Saturday this past weekend in Virginia Beach, VA. Included are my slides, code that I demo'd, and hopefully answers to all of the questions that people asked. The Slides Download my slides in PDF Read More...
WSPBuilder: Generate SharePoint Solution Files
12 January 09 07:40 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
There's a project on CodePlex called WSPBuilder . It's a console application that gets you from a given folder structure to a SharePoint Solution file. It would be nice if it was a NAnt / MSBuild task, but since it's an exe, calling it from your build Read More...
KeepAlive for the DotImage WebThumbnailViewer
09 January 09 08:20 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
This is my third post on the topic of using a simple Java Script call to keep a server session alive. My first post was on keeping a generic IIS session alive by reloading a hidden GIF , my second was related directly to keeping session state alive for Read More...
SharePoint Check Out Policy Honoring
07 January 09 07:17 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
When writing a piece of Document Imaging software for SharePoint (such as VizitSP ), it's likely that you'll need to worry about saving changes to files. This post will explore the different options there are and what compromises need to be made when Read More...
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Getting SharePoint to Tell You More about that "Unexpected Error"
05 January 09 07:05 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
If you're developing for SharePoint, you've undoubtedly encountered the oh-so-vague Unexpected Error. This blog will show you what changes need to be made to the web.config to make SharePoint tell you more. Which Web.Config? To find out which web config Read More...
Cross Domain Remote Debugging
01 January 09 10:00 AM | jacobl | 2 Comments   
Remote debugging can be a task on it's own, but after the first time you've done it, it becomes second nature. This blog will take remote debugging a step further and explain step by step how to easily debug across domains. Set Up Your VPN In Network Read More...