Janne Mattila's blog

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My previous post was about Application Compatibility Toolkit and shims. But what if you have a bit different situation... Imagine that I have my good old My Windows App application that has been working correctly in the past. Now it’s not maintained anymore...

Few years ago my friend showed me interesting application called Tombo . Author of Tombo describes it like this: TOMBO is yet another NotesTaker works on Windows/Windows CE (taken from here ) . It means that it can be used to save notes and it runs on...

I just noticed pretty cool feature which I have previously managed to miss. And that is InPrivate Filtering in IE8. It’s basically mechanism that allows you to filter content from the web pages. Previously I haven’t thought this as “ Adblock functionality...

For long time I have wanted have my code _ everywhere _. Just because I have 3 different computers that I use to write my own stuff. Obviously it would be nice to have version control system (such as Team Foundation Server) but for my own use it would...

I came up with the idea of My Chess when I wanted to play games with my friends and I noticed that I don’t have time to do that :-) So I decided to write an application that allows me to play chess with my friends just by using small amount of time every...

I have been using Windows 7 and  Windows Server 2008 R2 since the first beta. And I mean on my “ production ” laptops. And I have to say that I haven’t had any major issues with them. In fact I’ve used to them so much that I don’t want to use older...

I found myself troubleshooting on issue that I thought shouldn’t be issue anymore. I have created InfoPath form and published it to the SharePoint. However when I created new form using that template it ended up using wrong content type at my library...

Many people know geocaching (Wikipedia) and think of it as one of the modern treasure hunting games. Few days ago I found myself playing around with Microsoft Tag and I thought that this could be another treasure hunting game! Therefore I thought that...

If you’re working on solution that has many projects and many project items and you tend to get lost between your files ... You might want to go to Tools –> Options –> Projects and Solutions and set Track Active Item in Solution Explorer on. For...

Awhile back I saw really interesting article: Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine? After that I was forced to do small test on that and that of course resulted to this post :-) I just grabbed the idea and made small “car game” (but in reality...

How many times have you done some web development and used following method to attach your Visual Studio Debugger to w3wp.exe (a.k.a. Debug > Attach to Process –method):   And then you scroll the long list and find your w3wp.exe and press attach...

You might have encountered following situation: 1. You have created class library “MyLibrary” and it contains following class: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 namespace MyLibrary { public class Employee { public string FirstName; public string...

If you’re working with VPC images that cannot connect to internet you might have noticed annoying thing at Internet Explorer. IE tries to connect to internet so that it could finish up the setup. It’s good if you CAN connect to internet but it’s really...

If you have written small console application to check some data from CRM database you have probably already read this article from MSDN: Use Filtered Views . That is okay but honestly I’m currently more into LINQ solution. I’ll show you what I mean....

Since this is my 40th post to this blog I decided to go back to square one… or post one actually :-) I’m going to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that solves the Knight’s Tour puzzle. I actually didn’t know about this puzzle before...

Question: I’m using SPQuery to retrieve items from my SharePoint list and now I want to know little bit more about SPQuery properties. Actually I’m interested about performance related things since I’m not sure about my query currently. I currently have...

Since Silverlight 2 is in Beta 2 phase it’s definately time to create small application with it. Together with my friend we’e created small example application called Localization Tool . Idea in our example application is pretty simple... allow end users...

I accidently found myself on this page: SharePoint 2007 Quirks - Solving painfully slow spin-up times . After reading that article I was forced to test that. And my stsadm experience was really fast after that! So this link deserves a link post even if...

Last year I wrote small article Adding MS CRM to your own windows forms applications that demonstrates the usage of CRM in your own custom windows forms applications. In CRM 4.0 the story is pretty much the same but there’re few things that you need to...

Every now and then I’m find myself trying to solve same issues over and over again :-) That’s why I found myself (again) using DebugView as my debugging assistant at remote box. If you don’t know what DebugView is then you should definitely try it out...

Creating add-ins with Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO 3.0 (Visual Studio Tools for Office) is easy and fast… Just use File –> New –> Project –> Select correct add-in i.e. Outlook 2007 Add-in and you project template is created. And you can run you...

Question: I have normal user access rights at SharePoint but I'm administrator of the physical SharePoint box. I don't have access rights to SharePoint databases but I still need to run few lines of code against SharePoint. I have created small console...

Sometimes I tend to forget how much stuff is built into .NET Framework. Framework gives you nice set of features that you can use without writing a single line of code. ASP.NET Trace is one of them. I know that it's nothing new but I think that it's still...

Quite often people like to know what's happening under the covers when they do something through user interface. For example they use CRM, SharePoint or some other product through user interface and they would like to know what has happened at the database...