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My axiom for 2009: Embrace Disintermediation. Quote in my head: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - T.S. Eliot Areas of focus: If SharePoint is a "collaboration and content platform",...
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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." ...
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This is part 4 of an ongoing series into creating a WPF version of Outlook which uses the Outlook COM API as the underlying business logic layer. Previous entries have dealt with creating the initial application window and adding in the basic message...
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This is part 3 of an ongoing series into creating a WPF version of Outlook which uses the Outlook COM API as the underlying business logic layer. Previous entries have dealt with creating the initial application window and adding in the basic message...
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This is part 2 of an ongoing series into creating a WPF version of Outlook which uses the Outlook COM API as the underlying business logic layer. Previous entries have dealt with creating the initial application window. This part will cover the start...
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This is part 1 of an ongoing series into creating a WPF version of Outlook which uses the Outlook COM API as the underlying business logic layer. Although implementing any of the key entity types (Mail, Contacts, Calendar, etc) would provide a number...
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As many developers that learn a new technology/framework know, finding a target problem to solve can accelerate the knowledge acquisition process. It helps to bring focus to your efforts, rather than blindly copying code samples from books and magazines...
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Recently, I had a need to create a dialog where tasks could be scheduled to recur on a regular basis and wanted to borrow the options from task scheduling in Outlook, similar to the dialog below: The issue I ran into was how to layout the days of the...
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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...
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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...
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Verbum sapienti satis est....
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In my last project, we used LINQ to SQL for both the data access layer and the business logic layer. The entities generated in a DBML file (database markup language) are partial classes. This allowed for implementing business logic directly...
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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. ...
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I'm currently studying for the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 WCF certification exam. One of the concepts that we've been discussing around the office recently is how to properly consume self-developed WCF services. Over the past few weeks,...
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Edge server configuration E2K7EDGE is located in DMZ. Because E2K7EDGE is not a member of a domain you have to register it's DNS record manually. Open DNS management tool on DC01.testdomain.local. Expand Forward Zones, right click on your zone and select...
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In this part we will be installing Mailbox Role on two nodes and install deploy Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC). For more information about planning SCC please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125149(EXCHG.80).aspx We'll need...
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In this part we will be installing Client Access role and Hub Transport role. As a reminder this is our configuration: Computer Name OS # of NIC cards Role E2K7-CAS1.testdomain.local Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 2 Hub Transport role, Client Access...
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The purpose of this guide is to show you how to create a Highly Available Exchange 2007 environment. To accomplish that we'll cluster the Mailbox Role servers using a Single Copy Cluster, we'll also load-balance Client Access Servers using Network Load...
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So, I was just talking to one of my coworkers over IM and we were discussing WCF. During the conversation I said: Josh Heyse: programming WCF for 90% of developers is just interfaces and classes marked with ServiceContract and DataContract Josh...
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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. ...
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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...
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I've recently begun to explore Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0 and WPF. Once I started reading up on Silverlight, I decided that creating a simple game would be a fun way to start the learning process. The first game that came to mind was Tetris....
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This morning's keynote at PDC 2008 was all about MS Research. I think a number of people weren't that interested with the first half of the keynote (judging by the number of people who left), but those that left missed a couple of great demos at...
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So, I've been to two talks about Oslo and I still don't completely know what it's supposed to do :) Long story short, I think this is going to be a little while before it's fully baked, but it does show some promise. M (the language) sounds...
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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...
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