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The Hybrid Provider 3.0 - Released On CodePlex

cdomino — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:27:41 GMT

The true power of the ASP.NET SQL membership infrastructure is fully felt as a triumvirate: authentication, authorization, and profiles. Until now, the Hybrid Provider has only manifested two-thirds of this possible functionality; indeed, a "biumvirate." ...(read more)

Silverlight Circle Animation - Animate Any UIElement Over A (NOT Bezier) Curve

cdomino — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:10:44 GMT

The Problem Animation in Silverlight certainly gets us (“us” being .NET developers) further than we’d ever thought we’d go in terms of sexiness on our web sites. With a few lines of XAML, and a few more lines of C#, I can do what...(read more)

I'm Speaking At LCNUG This Thursday! (11.20.8)

cdomino — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:17:07 GMT

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)

SharePoint Developers Needed!

cdomino — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:51:39 GMT

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)

The Hybrid Profiler - Picture Support

cdomino — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:51:30 GMT

I've added a new control to the Hybrid Profiler that supports pictures for SQL users. What it does is gets the images from a Picture Library, and loads them into a drop down for selection when the profile page is in "Edit" mode. ...(read more)

The Hybrid Provider 2.0 - Some Sweet Updates

cdomino — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:49:25 GMT

After seeing all of the amazing technologies at PDC that are coming out from Microsoft, I've decided to fly though all of the side projects on my plate so I can start playing! This includes a round of updates I've been meaning to make to the Hybrid...(read more)

SharePoint Online - Thoughts On PDC 2008 Talk

cdomino — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:09:11 GMT

Okay so yesterday I got really excited about Microsoft Azure , especially when SharePoint was one of five highlighted technologies that would be natively hosted in the cloud. These technologies are the "services" that make up, well, the...(read more)

Windows Azure Announced At PDC 2008!

cdomino — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:16:00 GMT

Windows Azure was just announced, seriously, like fifty one minutes ago at PDC 2008 by Ray Ozzie at Microsoft. It is a new operating system that implements the whole “cloud” environment for hosted services and applications. The first few times I’ve heard...(read more)

Hybrid Provider - Power Tools

cdomino — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:04:00 GMT

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)

Getting Accurate JavaScript Scrolling Information In SharePoint

cdomino — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:24:11 GMT

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)

SharePoint Web Part Zone / Page Manager - Released On CodePlex

cdomino — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:27:05 GMT

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)

Assigning Custom Permission Levels On-The-Fly In SharePoint 2007

cdomino — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:56:00 GMT

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)

Yeah? Well your padding is invalid and cannot be removed!

cdomino — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:30:00 GMT

This little error seems to poke its ugly little head in several different areas around the .NET world. In my little corner of this world, SharePoint, and more specifically custom authentication with my Hybrid Provider , this error almost brought my portal...(read more)

The Hybrid Provider 2.0 - Released On CodePlex

cdomino — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:35:00 GMT

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)

The Hybrid Profiler - Aggregating AD and SQL User Profile Properties For SharePoint 2007

cdomino — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:34:00 GMT

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)