This blog post walks you through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC application that authenticates and displays some useful information available on your Belgian eID card. In order to authenticate, we will use an existing STS endpoint: https:/...

When you have variations enabled on a SharePoint site collection, you may notice that the Reusable Content list in the ribbon is empty in certain languages. All depends on the language of the root site collection and the language of the currently logged...

If you want to customize the colors available in the color picker flyout menu, there are a couple of options available to you: Pick an out of the box theme. This approach is the easiest since it requires no coding at all. Create or customize a theme...

While deploying an ASP.NET MVC application to Windows Azure, you may find out that it takes a very long time and it seems that it is cycling between starting/stopping/recycling and back again for several times. If you have this problem, make sure that...

Some people may have seen this happening, when you deploy a solution to Windows Azure using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. After the package is uploaded, the deployment fails with this message inside Visual Studio: "There was no endpoint listening at...

I'm just testing how to write a blog post using Microsoft Office Word 2010 and publish it to the blogs.msdn.com. These are the steps involved: Start Microsoft Word Create a new Blog Post If this is the first time, you'll get a popup window allowing...

In this 108 page hands-on lab you will learn how to use Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and Beta 1 of Microsoft Silverlight 4 to create a data driven line of business style rich internet application that implements many of the new features that Silverlight...

On January 23rd, 2010, these group of SharePoint evangelists from around the world will hold their first online SharePoint Saturday event in the EMEA Timezones. Target audience is Developers, IT Pros and Architects. Take a look at the impressive...

Although this is not a supported scenario, there is a way to install MOSS 2007 onto Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100). Here are the steps: Get the Installation Helper , created by Bamboo Nation. Get the MOSS 2007 installation media and extract...

There are different ways you can access your hotmail including web , mobile , windows live mail , etc. Until recently, you could access your hotmail via Microsoft Outlook by installing the Outlook Connector . Now, POP3 has become available for ALL hotmail...

When you’re writing custom SharePoint Application Pages, you may want to design the pages with the look and feel of SharePoint. This can be achieved by using the CSS stylesheets provided by MOSS, but also by using the ASP.NET controls that are delivered...