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Embedding .NET Code in XSLT StyleSheets

XSLT is a great way to add extensibility to your application. You are basically storing procedural logic in, essentially, a text file. This way, as your app inevitably changes, you can update it without needing to go through a messy redeployment. Whether Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:25 AM by cdomino | 2 Comments
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Using ASP.NET AJAX JSON Asynchronous Web Services

I have finally gotten around to playing with asynchronous ASP.NET AJAX JSON web services, and WHAT a beautiful thing they are! You can call a .NET web service asynchronously from the client, and play with a full object in JavaScript as the response all Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 4:56 PM by cdomino | 2 Comments

Circumvent Office Activation

It took me a while to decide if I wanted to blog about this, but I decided that it is something that can make a developer's life a lot easier. There is a workaround to the whole Office 2007 activation wizard. Normally, you have (depending on your version) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:45 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

Converting Between String And Byte Array Representations Of SIDs

I’ve been at a client for quite some time doing SharePoint work, and came across an interesting issue. They have about 1,000 “corporate” users and 5,000 “field” users, with account names that follow a first-initial-last-name naming convention. And despite Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:24 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

A Brief Insight Into SharePoint Lists

SharePoint lists can be a convenient mechanism to store data in a database table-ish manner without having to leave your comfy SharePoint home. However, before you get too comfy living in a SharePoint list data storage paradigm, there are just a few things Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:07 PM by cdomino | 2 Comments
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InfoPathology - Part 12

Part 12 will hot upon the most important aspect of SharePoint: custom web services. Part 12 - SharePoint Web Services Web Services are wonderful devices that allow us to run code from almost anywhere we have access to. The best part of all is that it Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:35 PM by cdomino | 2 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 11

Part 11 will kick off our discssion of InfoPath / SharePoint Integration Part 11 - SharePoint Integration As mentioned in a pervious posting, SharePoint Form Libraries are a natural home for InfoPath forms to live in. If you are creating basic forms that Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 4:41 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 10

After all of the discussion about how to create your InfoPath form, Part 10 talks about the next logical task - form deployment - all the fun (and fustration) that is intrinsic to it. Part 10 - Form Deployment Finally, now that our InfoPath forms have Read More...
Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 2:59 AM by cdomino | 0 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 9

Part 9 concludes InfoPathology's discussion on ASP.NET integration and Managed Code Tips & Tricks. Part 9 - Calling Web Services From Code One of the nicest things InfoPath can do for a developer is aggregate Web Services and transparently present Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:13 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 8

The final two enteries, Parts 8 and 9, of the "Code Behind Conundrum" regard ASP.NET integration with InfoPath. Part 8 - Auto Populating Data From ASP.NET Pages Although SharePoint Form Libraries are the natural home for published InfoPath forms, they Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:27 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 7

It's time to get down in dirty in Part 7 with some error validation. Part 7 - Popup Error Validation One of the nicest things about InfoPath is that it adds some pizzazz to otherwise boring controls. It’ll outline textboxes as you mouse over them, shade Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:38 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 5

Part 5 discusses some methods for integrating Windows elements into your InfoPath forms. Part 5 - Win Forms & Popup Message Boxes Win Forms Although it is certainly not obvious, you can build an entire Windows application on top of an InfoPath form. Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:31 PM by cdomino | 2 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 6

There's more managed code fun here in Part 6! Part 6 - File Attachments & Clean Forms File Attachments At first glance, it seems like InfoPath really did something right with the file attachment control. When dropped into a repeating table, this dynamic Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:14 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 4

Part 4 is a continuation of some of the cool things we can do with "managed" InfoPath forms. Part 4 - Populating Repeating Tables Repeating tables are beautiful things. It is the most elegant implementation of dynamic data inputting I’ve ever seen. However, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:36 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

InfoPathology - Part 3

In Part 2, we learned about the fundamental differences between forms that have code-behind, and those that don't. Focusing on forms that do contain managed code, the next several blogs will each outline an interesting scenario that using .NET to create Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:26 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments
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