I was having a lot of trouble with this, so I'm going to share it. Visual Studio 2010 setup projects still do not fix the way you create a setup project. The problem is that Visual Studio doesn't add the x64 version of InstallUtilLib.dll to the MSI and...

I've always wondered which is the fastest technique to do a string comparison? using the StringComparison enums or ToUpper and ToLower? The following entry also answers what is fastest among the StringComparison enums. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/noahc...

I scoured Bing (and Google) to find out why my Visual Studio unit tests will not allow me to test my SharePoint code failing with the message: Initialization method Contoso.Test.BreakingNewsTest threw exception. System.IO.FileNotFoundException: System...

So, I had the exact same problem as Tim Heuer ( New hard drive means re-install everything ). 150GB drive and bought a nice 320GB 7200RPM with shock protection. I found the easiest way to get myself up and running was to use Win7's backup/restore feature...

With all the microblogging I do, I've found myself writing less informative blogs. I started a series for SharePoint How-tos then got very bored with that. Lately, I've been working on learning more about MVC and cloud computing; both of which perplex...

I had problems getting the Hyper-V Integration components installed in my VPC this evening. After a lot of kicking and stomping, I found a fellow MSFT-ie had the same issue and resolved it. Most of the issue is the fact that Hyper-V's integration components...

This should have been obvious to me, and whoever you are searching for this, but apparently it's not possible to have a host OS that's bitlocker enabled and use the boot from VHD. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799282(WS.10).aspx Bitlocker...

This is the first app that I get to work on for a customer that uses WPF and WCF. I'm finding the XML to be a bit cumbersome. Although the tools do help you get things right with WPF, I think the WCF tools are complicated. I believe the next steps for...

You just want the error message to be displayed on the default SharePoint error page. Is this an easy In Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility there are 2 functions: SPUtility.TransferToErrorPage - this transfers the user to the administrative layouts...

This one is an awesome feature to add if you've got an application running a workflow asynchronously and on-the-fly ( see post on programmatically launching a workflow ) and you want to coordinate the results of said workflow synchronously, so.you have...

Following the lead of Sara Ford , I think I want to do a 'How do I' piece for SharePoint developers. I don't know how long this will last, but this is the first post. First off, layout pages require the following directives. Try as I may, I have never...

In case you missed hearing about the new SDK, here's a great post on what's in it. http://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/archive/2008/08/28/just-published-wss-and-moss-sdk-1-4-download-and-online-msdn-library-8-29-2008.aspx

I had enough trying to find this code, so I'm putting what I've pieced together to activate a workflow programmatically (specifically a SharePoint Designer Workflow) public static string StartWorkflow(ContractListItem contract, string workflowName) {...

I hate fishing around to get the publickeytoken for my strong named assemblies, so I fished around for a way to do it in Visual Studio. Here's what I did: Create a new External Tool - I called mine Get PublicKeyToken Map to the sn.exe file in...

So, I scoured the internet (all of it, I swear) to find some information on readonly fields in SharePoint. Apparently, SharePoint workflows can write to readonly columns. The only problem I'm having now is getting the column to show up in a columns list...

I just bought a video camera online, so I figured I'd check out the Live Cashback program and see if it would work out well. It totally rocked. I found the camera I wanted at a better price than I could find on other online shopping search sites, then...

I just got my Navigon 7100 GPS and I have to say I'm impressed. I really like the navigation quality of the GPS, especially compared to my TomTom ONE. I like the TomTom's ease of use--in fact, I like it better than my friends Garmin nuvi, but the TomTom...

I presented a Silverlight 1.0/2.0 demonstration yesterday at CodeCamp and it went quite well. Most importantly, it compiled; hey, that's half the battle. The talk started out about how POX is not truly a ReST service because POX services are not usually...

I ran into a problem when trying to use Peschka's PartCheck code for My Site autoconfiguration to modify some boolean fields on the Colleague Tracker web part and found some modifications you'll need to make in order to set boolean fields on controls...

I'm speaking at Pittsburgh's Code Camp on April 12th located at University of Pittsburgh's Sennott Square. I'll be presenting POX services using WCF and ReST (although many will agree that POX is not truly ReST) to supply data to a Silverlight 1.0 application...

Depending on your hardware configuration IIS 6.0 does have a potential limit to the number of application pools. The TechNet FAQ for IIS stated here says: The answer varies depending on the hardware and software configurations of your server as well as...

I posted these to Joel Oleson's MSDN blog , but since he's moving the blog, I didn't want to lose them. Uber-nerd SharePoint versions of Star Wars lines: These aren't the content databases you are looking for. (compliments Eric Charran ) If...

Unfortunately, you cannot natively migrate web part pages to WCM publishing pages. The benefit of publishing pages manifests itself in the centralized page layouts. Web part pages cannot be modified universally, but publishing page layouts can be thusly...

I recently joined the Community Kit for SharePoint team. I'm hoping to enhance the Discussion Board features of SharePoint beyond the very basic forums we get out-of-box. Check it out: http://codeplex.com/cks

This is a diversion from the usual tech stuff I blog, but my mother just published her book--a dream she wrote over 20 years ago--through American Book Publishing. This is a long-awaited event in my family, and I really wanted to The book is titled The...