I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the new Office 2007 ribbon. IMO, maybe it will just take time, but it's a very difficult twist to use the new ribbon feature. For anyone who has created custom toolbars for apps, your buttons now fall into the Add-ins...

This is one of those "must haves" for organizations. This assembly creates a web service to upload a document to which lives in SharePoint. It also creates a Reporting Services delivery provider that uploads the generated report to the web service, and...

Thanks to Bennett Adelson Consulting for hosting the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group (SIG) on Tuesday. It was a good turnout and there were no visible glitches (IMO). If you'd like to view the presentation as well as the slides and source code...

This is a demonstration of how to connect to data sources using the DB provider-based objects built into the .NET 2.0 framework. I've noticed a bit of confusion around programming for the new structures, so I'm going to put together a little guide on...

Here's a great article I wrote on my old blog about Windows SharePoint Services Recycle Bins in WSS 2.0: http://aspnetgeek.blogspot.com/2006/02/creating-recycle-bin-for-windows.html

In case you're in a vacuum, preview some of the new features of Office 2007 here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview

Here's a cool trick to add files to your project that are global. The example is for linking a strong name key file to multiple projects, but this example is also good for embedding a resource in multiple projects, or creating a baseline GlobalAssemblyInfo...

I've put together a simple pattern for when I create new data driven objects that I'd like to share. This is the method I used in the 1.x framework for easily managing data objects. This is my version of the Lightweight Business Objects (LBO) approach...

It's late notice, but I'm presenting at the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group next Tuesday, May 9th, 2006. I will be speaking on Unit Testing and Code Coverage Analysis in Visual Studio 2005. A brief overview of the agenda is as follows: Unit...

I recently purchased a Cingular 2125 SmartPhone running Windows Mobile 5.0. I had one of the early models of the SmartPhone 2 years ago--the Motorola MPx220 (I think that's the model #). I had a lot of problems with that phone, but I can see they have...

I've started week 2 at Microsoft and part of my personal agenda was to get a blog on msdn blogs. Mission accomplished. Hello world!