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When using document libraries in SharePoint try to avoid the temptation of creating nested folders. There are several reasons you do not want ot create folders more than one level deep if you need to create them at all. You are just recreating the...

Perception is king, too bad it is often misled! If we take a minute to really examine the large majority of line of business applications that we spend time creating, deploying, and monitoring. Many of these applications are designed around the same core...

Guidance on managing exceptions An exception is something you do not expect to happen in your application, there are two types of exception fatal and nonfatal. Fatal exceptions is anything that you did not define or not based from the ApplicationException...

I am now a slave to contract first development when it comes to service oriented development. When designing service oriented systems think about creating your contracts first (typically WSDL for web services). Today this is more difficult than it should...

When adding code to event handlers to a form code behind (i.e. your button click event), consider the following guideline(s). Place as little code in the event handler as possible. You should delegate the actual functionality out to a user interface...

Need to IM someone but you can not install the MSN client (maybe you are on a public computer or a friend's computer). Try Web Messenger http://webmessenger.msn.com/ Happy messenging... Ed Ferron Grace, Mercy and Peace

Hey TiVO drop the pop ads when I am fast forwarding! TiVO released an update to my device that pops up an annoying Ad when I am fast forwarding thru a show. I realize T.V. shows are designed to keep your attention so an advertiser can throw something...

Here a few ommon "I wanna..." and "we need a..." statements I hear customers make in requesting a solution from IT or a vendor: "We need a...Portal" - This does not mean they want SharePoint (or Oracle Portal or IBM Websphere portal). "I wanna...

This is a serious question, not a product war. I am not a Blackberry (BB) user so I really don't know. For enterprise customers with Exchange, why would you pick a BB as your corporate standard over Exchange? In addition for enterprise customers, why...

I am on the hook for delivering media services for my local church, so I spend a fair amount of time creating videos, commercials, and editing for any number of broadcast.  I depend heavily on Apple’s Quicktime (QT) software, so when all of a sudden...

I have addressed this conversation several times, and like others I am blogging my stand so I can just respond to the question with a link to this post from here out. I am not attempting to define SOA or provide guidance about SOA in this post; this post...

My 2nd post - Face it I am not to good at this blogging bit. Hopefully this one helps somebody out so here goes. So I am slowly becoming a fan of (legal) music downloading via online music stores like buy.com and walmart.com (now I am experimenting with...

The good people over at JetBrains has released a profiling tool called dotProfiler . While I have not had a chance to use the tool myself, I do currently use the ReSharper product for VS2003 and I have to admit there are several features I really like...

I have been in several interviews, reviewed resumes and I have one bit of feedback for candidates looking for employment, regardless of the position or company you are applying too. You need to be able to tell the interviewer on your resume and in the...

Finally my first blog. :-) I came across this site while reading over some internal newsgroup post. I have to admit this is a must have site for your favorites collections. http://www.pinvoke.net/ Site snippet ----------- PINVOKE.NET attempts...

Working with several customers over time I come across a common coding practices (note I did not say best practice), that I promised I would one day start blogging about. I have seen in many scenarios where developers are just doing too much work when...

I have been hearing a bit of buzz from people about OpenOffice again, so I went and tried OpenOffice again (and I really tried to like it). The last time tried it (almost 2 years ago) I refused to Microsoft Office for a month in order to really get used...

I try to avoid re-blogging, (lots of blog entries already exists about the Enterprise Library (Entlib)). Entlib was published to MSDN 1/28/2005, and I must say it is worth downloading and reviewing. However I have been reviewing Entlib and I am impressed...

The number one question I get from IT departments is, how do I manage all the WSS sites popping up in my organization? There seems to be a lot of frustration because many customers have not been in able to get a ahead of the WSS team site sprawl and...

I think I am just getting old and cranky. First of all TiVO seems to have removed the trial of pop ads from my service. Thank you TiVO for responding to your customers! I still love my TiVO. :-) DirectTV on the other hand just lost my business after...

GoogleOffice = Microsoft killer? While initiatives such as OpenOffice document formats and GoogleOffice will prove to be interesting, and yes it may very well gain traction in the industry, I must take a minute to call out some of the super hype articles...

Now that the debate for the most part is over about the ability to run mission critical, consumer and business apps on x86 (some may have called it Wintel in the past which is a little unfair to AMD) is over, the industry has pretty much stated x86 is...

What makes Adobe think if I go download acrobat reader, I also would like to have the Yahoo toolbar installed? I just installed the Adobe reader on a new machine, and I was very suprised and frustrated to find all of the additional software the installer...

I was asked by a customer some really good InfoPath questions that you may have as well, so I decieded to post them to my blog. KB Article: How to view transformed InfoPath data in IE (instead of the default behavoir which uses InfoPath) Office Online...

I am looking for some thoughts for developing Windows forms. Does anyone build MDIForms still? If so why MDI? Do you use the User Interface Process (UIP) 2.0 Block? Why or why not? I having been working on several winform applications over the...