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You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the new DLL into the CAB file? Wouldn't it surprise...
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I have been doing some SharePoint 2007 work for the past couple months and I find it very difficult to find information about just SharePoint 2007 BETA 2 . If anyone knows where a good newsgroup or forum is please let me know. In the mean time I have set up a Forum ( http://devcow.com/forums/default...
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SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Level 100 is happening TONIGHT at the Microsoft offices in Alpharetta. Pizza is scheduled for delivery at 6:00 PM and the presentation should begin at 6:30 PM. We'd love to see all of you there! If you would like to come, please register so that we can get an accurate count and order...
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Most of the SQL Server users I know are big fans of stored procedures, but barely use functions, if ever. Functions are really nice, but I'm not going to go into all the reasons you should love them I'm just going to point out the use I recently made of one. You can write what is essentially a stored...
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I hit a snag with SSRS 2000. I have data for my report which can be filtered by location or groups of locations. The problem is that this filter requires some dynamic SQL on my part: CREATE PROCEDURE vm_RPT_GetSalesMixData @pInqType integer AS -- set our where clause Declare @LocNoFilter NVARCHAR(100...
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Looking to expand your IT toolkit? How about learning BizTalk 2006? BizTalk is all about business processes. Biztalk helps you automate and optimize your business processes way above and beyond simply connecting disparate systems. This is the kind of stuff consultants lick their chops over. If you really...
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I tried to like ActiveReports from Data Dynamics , I really did. I mean, Jim Wooley likes it, so why shouldn't I? I'm trying to set up a simple crosstab report - a report that takes the data normally viewed in rows and turns it into data viewed in columns. I've got data like this: dept cat period sale...
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This was frustrating me for a bit until I found the answer, so I thought I'd put it online to help save others the same headache. I've got a project I'm working on here at work that one other developer is working on with me. For some reason, on my machine, I was unable to change the build version from...
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So I've just wrapped up a quick little demo of how easy it is to code for SharePoint. Since the focus is on easy, and they're not yet 100% sure if we'd be using SharePoint vs a make-your-own ASP.Net 2.0 site, I decided the best way to go is to use the SmartPart and show off how you can write normal old...
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May 3rd has officially been dubbed "Speech Server Day" here in Atlanta. Well...OK - not actually "officially". However, if you're interested in applications that you can talk to and can actually understand and talk back, check out the in town event at the Microsoft offices. Click here to register
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Microsoft's Virtual Server is now a FREE download! Signifying how important the virtualization market is, Microsoft has started to give away it's virtual server product. If you are a developer and you've never seen how virtual server and virtual machines like Microsoft...
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Rik Robinson recently started blogging and posted this gem about how to get Google and MSDN searches inside of Visual Studio. I'm a month behind in blogging about it, but this info really deserves to be spread around. Great job Rik!
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There are many times when I just need to create an HTML file for a very small page, but I hate not having the Intellisense. To add the Intellisense in the VS designer for HTML or old ASP pages just put the line below in your HTML head section. Then Presto! you have Intellisense and the wizards to help...
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Let's say that you have a script that does a task, say for example a script to create an account in Active Directory. That script would look like this: Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=myOrganizationalUnit,dc=MyDomain,dc=com") Set objUser = objOU.Create("User", "cn=Test User") objUser.Put "sAMAccountName...
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I'm working on an app here at the office which is currently made up of one executable and one DLL full of objects shared by (currently) 2 programs. I'm working in both of these projects simultaneously so I've got two copies of VS2005 open on my machine. Dual monitors makes this a pleasure to work with...