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Looking back it seems like complete lunacy. For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html. The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone...
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Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work Putting it to work So, using this code, you could embed in your Feature receiver a web.config...
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Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work The Remedy Ok, so now the Name property is only an XPath expression if it’s a child node....
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Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work Why doesn't this work? My code would step through this XML, and at each node generate a...
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Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work Time for some code I wrote some recursive code to load an xml document and from that document...
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Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work Take this for example... You write a feature to be installed and you make web.config modifications...
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Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work The Problem I've read a lot of posts [ this , this , and this , for example] about the SPWebConfigModification...
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Recently, I've been posting more about Windows Tips'n Tricks. Along that theme, I recently solved a problem that was another thorn in my side. I often will use the context menu in the Start->All Programs menu to get at the shortcuts in my Start menu....
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When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't....
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If you talk to my colleagues, you'll find out how much I really like reflection in .NET. I have a number of pet projects and unit tests that do things with reflection that are fairly extreme. For example, I have a utility method in our unit tests called...
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On a Seth Godin kick recently, dear readers. Recently, he talked about being nice. There is no cost for being nice; in my point of view (and as supervisor, it's also a demand of this department), being nice is required. It is a skill at which both Kevin...
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Sometimes I come across coding gems that make me smile. Manuel de Icaza created an embeddable C# compiler for Mono . This is wonderfully meta. I love it! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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I was at the Microsoft VSX conference last week. VSX is the API for extending Visual Studio (VS eXtensibility). We do a little of that here at Atalasoft -- for example, see Rick's Code Project article on adding a debugger visualizer . One of the more...
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I'll be at New England Code Camp 10 tomorrow giving another talk about functional programming and concurrency in F#. It will be fairly similar to my previous talks in terms of ideas and content, however, I have put a lot of work into making the functional...
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Ever wanted to have one assembly, but be able to manage your code in separate assemblies? Enter ILMerge; one of those nice tools Research.Microsoft.com has that you might now know about. ILMerge lets you take multiple MSIL Dlls and merge them into one...
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Last week, Atalasoft exhibited at the DMS exhibition in Cologne, Germany to launch our SharePoint Suite of products called Vizit . It was the company's first European show. We were fortunate enough to have established a partnership with Kodak and exhibited...
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The little things are sometimes what makes your day. I often in work need to get to a folder in the command prompt. I looked around for ways to add the "Command Prompt Here" item to the default context menu and found mostly "Power Tools" type things....
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Here is a recording I did of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Business of Software conference. Engineering the Evaluation Funnel Pecha Kucha View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: eval evaluation ) Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
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Seems like Document Imaging and SharePoint is on everyone's mind. Yesterday, we released Vizit SP to add Document Imaging support to SharePoint. Today, according to ECM Connection , Errin O'Connor ( EPC Group ) says: "From an IT management perspective,...
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I just spent 5 days tracking down a Heisenbug . Historically, I've tracked down a lot of these but not because I create a lot of them, because I'm good at finding them. In this particular case, I had a set of unit tests that were failing on our build...
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In case you're wondering if your industry is too boring to spawn a viral video, I want to share this one from mine. ScanRobot -- the automatic book scanner . The thing that's interesting, is that Part I has 100k+ views on youtube, but part II has about...
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John Mancini reports on Ralph Gammons's (Document Imaging Report) capture predictions. MORE DISTRIBUTED CAPTURE. Infrastructure and networks getting better. Applications themselves improving. Channel better understanding the opportunity moving beyond...
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Here's an interesting article from the Economist about the effect of the tons of electronically available information about the minutia of people's lives that are available in electronic form: And yet almost all information today is electronic, and there...
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Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog article about how to consider the, ahem, inexperienced. From a software support perspective, the question is, how much should I expect my end-user to know? If someone asks me a basic question about DotImage, then I...
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VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible...
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