Just putting this out there since I didn’t find any info out there. If you’re using the ADO.NET REST data services to update user fields, you can’t just set it like so:
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{"AssignedTo" : "3;#Charles Chen"} // No good! {"AssignedTo" : "DEV\\cchen"} // Nope! {"AssignedTo" : {"Account" : "DEV\\cchen"}} // Nope! |
You have to do it using a...
Not mine, but came across an excellent post by Hristo Pavlov (who unfortunately, no longer works in the SharePoint space). It goes deep into the bowels of the threading model and the considerations one should have when designing custom code...
SharePoint doesn’t provide a straightforward way to do this it seems. My first crack was to try to leverage the BeforeProperties and AfterProperties in an event receiver, but it turns out that this doesn’t work quite as you would expect...
I’ve been bashing my head against a SharePoint 2010 solution package for almost 10 hours now across two days. I mean god forbid Microsoft provides us poor developers with some useful error messages or even a hint of what’s going...
As a consultant, I feel strongly about giving sound technical advice to my clients, even if such advice means saying “no” to a client or possibly turning back a larger project for a more pragmatic one. It’s about doing the...
Click here to see the demo page. I was looking around recently for a jQuery based scrollbar replacement and spent quite some time trying out a few different libraries that I found in a blog post. I was left quite...
I caught an interview with Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan this morning while listening to the BBC World Service. Aside from being extremely well spoken, he expounded upon the issues in the region in a very straightforward manner, something...
In my 29 years of life, I’ve never once thought much of mistletoe. We all know the holiday songs, kissing under the mistletoe, etc. But just what the heck is the stuff? An NPR story on the harvesting of mistletoe...
Caught this editorial on CNN this weekend: Companies spend billions on rent, offices, and office equipment so their employees will have a great place to work. However, when you ask people where they go when they really need to get...
Got this strange error today with an Excel add-in I’m working on:
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The customization cannot be installed because another version is currently installed and cannot be upgraded from this location. To install this version of the customization, first use Add or Remove Programs to uninstall this program |
Now this seems pretty straightforward, right? However, the add-in doesn’t show up in the Add/Remove programs menu! No amount of clean solution or rebuild would resolve this...