In short: don’t do it to yourself! Okay, so that’s not a realistic solution. But you know what? It is a pain in the butt. Terrible. Teeeeeeerrible. I’ve spent the last two days battling Kerberos, Active Directory, and NLB trying...
One of the more interesting problems I’ve been working with is trying to figure out how to get the user information for the assignee (whom the task is assigned to). Getting the user ID and the the user display name...
I spent bout two hours today tring to figure out why I kept getting a weird error while using prototype to call a WCF service. There are various other resources on the web regarding how WCF has a few quirks...
I’ve previously posted on how to move compiled binaries into a remote GAC automatically from your development environment to your SharePoint environment using SysInternal’s PsExec utility. But what about moving content files from your SharePoint environment to your development environment? ...
Using log4net with SharePoint layout page applications is really no different from using it with other types of web applications with the exception that there really isn’t a convenient way to initialize the logging configuration from your custom binaries. The...
Anyone who’s done any bit of SharePoint development is probably familiar with the completely useless “Unknown Error” view. Well, in fact, SharePoint actually knows what the error is, it just doesn’t want to tell you (okay, it’s really just disabled...
SharePonit layout apps (as I call them) are the missing link in most developer’s understanding of SharePoint and why it seems like it can be a pain in the butt as a development platform. As I’ve discussed previously, SharePoint development...
I got an email today regarding a blog post by Jeffrey Palermo on the shortcomings of SharePoint as a development platform. Now I have to say, SharePoint is not without fault (particularly in the area of feature packaging and deployment),...
As I was pondering the suckage of Lotus Notes, I came across an interesting little piece on a CMS Watch Report titled: “SharePoint Has Become the New Lotus Notes“: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is repeating history as it mimics...
In working with the SharePoint web services, I’ve noticed consistent errors with a few of the services which tend to return the following string: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime I hadn’t been able to figure out what...