Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (aka peace upon you) Asynchronous calls have always been there for more efficient use of CPU time. You run something asynchronously when you know it’ll take some time to execute and you don’t want to block your...

One of our partners faced a problem that I think we will eventually see occurring frequently with external customers, so I thought to document the problem’s symptoms and a possible fix.. Problem Context: You have a v2 WebPart (didn’t try it with v3 but...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (aka Peace Upon You) One of the problems every blogger faces is how to answer the above question… We often ask our fellow friends for suggestions, or even post a whole post and let people suggest topics in the...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (aka Peace Upon You) I’m planning to start a series of posts, targeting SharePoint developers, introducing some parts of features I got exposed to. I’ll start this by talking about new features we are releasing...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace Upon You) Part II: Consume the Abstract Syntax Tree … Do some action! … If you have not read Part I , we have created our first grammar to recognize this language: Send "D:\Reports\Templates\Regular...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you) I was designing some classes today and I got stuck with an old problem I used to fix in an ugly way… class A { public static void InitializeMe() { SomeClassManager.Listeners.Add( typeof (A)...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace Upon You) Part I: Create the Grammar …What your users will write… If you are writing enterprise software, you probably came across this problem many times when you want to give IT Admins the...

Alsalam alikom wa r7amat Allah wa barakatoh (Peace upon you..) Long story short, you have AssemblyA (with source code) and AssemblyB… you want AssemblyB to be able to access internal members (types, data, methods.. etc) of AssemblyA… You can of course...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh I've faced a strange javascript exception when running a piece of code on Firefox/Safari, while it works fine on IE. Here is what Firefox 3.0 says: uncaught exception : [ Exception ... "Illegal operation on...

Alsalam alikom wa ra7mat Allah wa barakatoh (aka Peace upon you) This's my first post on MSDN blogs, I've been blogging since 2005 on blogspot though... a mixture of personal and technical posts you can find on http://haythamalaa.blogspot.com I'll keep...