Originally I thought of this as my second departure from Microsoft, but when I consider the multiple stints I have spent as a contractor at Microsoft, I realize this is actually my fifth time to leave the company in one capacity or another. Amazing. My...

It has been a while.  In addition to my daily project work, I am working on several side projects in various states of readiness: 1.)  Project Pro add-in for managing security 2.)  Project-Pro adding for managing custom fields 3.) ...

I haven’t written for a while. I have been super busy.  Chet said he signed up for my RSS feed today so I thought I would write a quick post so he has something to read today.  Hehe. I am writing a tool that publishes projects on a schedule...

I did a presentation today about basic PSI development concepts. I thought I would share these examples with the world, so here you go! http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=PsiDev101&DownloadId=5141 ...

A very small group of you saw this post go up and then come right back down again.  I found a bug about 30 seconds after posting this.    Here is the updated post.  NOTE: The bug had to do with not fully understanding how the...

Here it is.  Download the setup here .  Download the source here . Enjoy. This will be my last for a while.  I have to focus on the book and I am off to a 20 week engagement.

In an attempt to divert my brain and as a break from SharePoint development, I wrote  a simple utility this weekend that generates a consolidated report of download counts for any resource housed at MSDN Code Gallery, including projects, releases...

I am taking a little break from my current project.  Whew. Only such much you can cram into your brain about SharePoint in one unbroken period of time. Today’s topic starts at the beginning of mpFx:  How to create a ProjectServer object. ...

Simon from Australia needed an example of how to use mpFx to create projects, resources, tasks, and assignments.  Here it is: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=mpFx&DownloadId=4636 . Here is the source...

I have learned so much in the past few days, I am not sure where to start.  So, here is tidbit to get started with: 1: < SharePoint:DelegateControl ID ="DelegateControl5" runat ="server" ControlId ="SmallSearchInputBox"...

Except for a project I did last year, I haven’t done much ASP.NET development.  I have always been a back-end developer. Writing Windows services, utilities, ETL, security systems, others… So, while I am learning about SharePoint development, I am...

The preview of mpFx 1.0 has been released to MSDN Code Gallery.  The tool I built to showcase some of the library’s functionality, mpFxClient, is installed along with the source.  Get it here . I want to be clear that this is a preview release...

Not that anybody is reading this, but I like to write :-) A while back, I reserved the .mpfx.org domain.    For now, I have it forwarding to colbyafrica.com.  Check it out here .  My personal website is hosted by Yahoo Small Business...

I am working hard today to get mpFx ready for Code Gallery.  I might make it. I have work time scheduled for tomorrow but it is for Microsoft, not for my personal projects.  We will see how it goes this weekend. Here is a very cool tool called...

I have made some serious progress since my last post.  I found this very handy extension method, which adds a TryGetValue to SPListItem . 1: // Credits: http://blog.mastykarz.nl/obtain-fields-values-splistitem/comment-page-1/#comment-11076 2...

I am on a special project that requires I do a deep dive into SharePoint and fast.  I told my director that I would be blogging as I learn, if only to force me to repeat everything I learn so it all sticks!   I have been using SharePoint...

I love comments when they are appropriate and necessary.  I relish a good comment in a piece of code that does something really beautiful but is maybe complicated.  I love comments that help me understand the assumptions and design considerations...

This a post long in the making.  Over a year ago, I started working on a Microsoft Project 2003 to Microsoft Project Server 2007 migration.  The learning curve was steep.  I had taken a hiatus from developing solutions with Microsoft Project...

A couple of years ago I was dealing with an ASP.NET application with session state issues.  This happens, if you can believe it.  I was flummoxed by the problem and the routine checks and configuration options didn’t seem to fix the problem...

Recently I finished an engagement where the customer received the source code.  When MCS does this, we typically add a header to each source file, which contains information related to the engagement.    About two years ago, I wrote...

I needed a test harness for mpFx, so I built a simple WinForms application and wrote little utilities that used the primary libraries. As the feature set grew, the test harness started to become unwieldy and frankly not very pretty. This fact, coupled...

There must be a better way to do this.  I have a Project Server plugin for the mpFx client application:   Selecting a project in the list view and clicking the button opens the project in WinProj.  The problem is that you cannot open a...

PSI Extensions are custom web services that execute within the Project Server Interface infrastructure, sharing the same security context as other PSI web services. PSI Extensions can be very important in building line of business and integration solutions...

PSI Extensions are custom web services which tightly integrate with Project Server.  From the SDK: The Project Server Interface (PSI) for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 can be extended with custom Web services. PSI extensions tightly integrate...

I have added the ability to search the local registry to select a registry key and value.  See below: More later…