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If anyone lives in the Chicagoland area and really really really wants to haul it up to Grays Lake, IL, I'm going to be giving my first-ever keynote at the Lake County .NET Users Group! My talk is going to be about the Hybrid Provider , and how it facilitates Read More...
Catalyst is hiring!  We have a lot of SharePoint projects closing, and my boss won't let me work over 90 hours a week...something about my diminishing productivity after 5 AM or smelling funny at status meetings after pulling an all-nighter.  Read More...
Something that's been passed over in all of my Hybrid Provider work has been some of the cool little tweaks I've come up with to get some of the "supporting characters" to work. If custom SharePoint authentication plays the lead role, then login pages, Read More...
If I were a SharePoint psychiatrist, (which indeed I may very well be...) I would have a list of panaceas tantamount to what a therapist might actually tell a real patient.  For example: To a patient: "You have a lot to live for!" "She Read More...
Have you ever tried to use custom layouts to programmatically provision web part pages via the SharePoint API?  F that!  It seems to me like you need to take a dependency on MOSS and the Office Server publishing infrastructure.  All this Read More...
The SharePoint API has, for the most port, elegantly deprecated obsolete functionality from 2003 to 2007. This allows legacy code to continue to compile, but still urges you forward to use new methods and procedures. One of the areas of the API that has Read More...
I've finally completed the 2.0 Code Plex release of the Hybrid Provider . There are three major areas in which I have made improvements. Profiles Support for multiple web apps on the same farm Better and more WPF-er installer. Profiles I've added the Read More...
Introduction After two years, I think I have all the kinks worked out of the Hybrid Provider , not to mention a new WPF installer that has pretty gradients and spinning animations (still no dancing monkey buttons...sorry) that eliminates the two hours Read More...
So I'm really getting into good habits using Features, whereby every little piece of SharePoint code I write or page I customize must ultimately be deployable. All custom SharePoint functionality should be treated no differently than any other piece of Read More...
When I was working on my Hybrid Provider Installer , I came across a few things to discuss regarding the SPWebConfigModification class. One is a very minor SharePoint bug, and others are some nuances I ran into. Now, of course, my code never has any bugs Read More...
It's finally up on CodePlex! Get it here . The installer is pretty straight forward. I wanted to do an MSI, but there would be so much customization of the UI and so many custom actions that it would actually be easier to just write it from scratch. So Read More...
(Sorry that title is so obnoxious. I really want people to find this post, as it answers questions about programmatic access to SharePoint List Templates that I couldn't find elsewhere! And I want to stop as many people as I can from writing needless Read More...
I just finished building a massive SharePoint feature that provisions a list, adds a web part to a page, installs a workflow, associates that workflow with the list, adds settings to the web.config and encrypts them, and then makes you a sandwich when Read More...
I originally wrote the HybridProvider using all of the default settings for its underlying SQL and AD providers.  The basic paradigm I tackled was that "internal" users would be authenticating against AD; their accounts are essentially Read More...
An issue came up today with my HybridProvider that I felt I should address.  Actually, the issue wasn't something not working; instead, it was a case where I had forgotten how I did it!  And we all know this happens in programming, and especially Read More...
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