Chris Keyser's Blog
Random thoughts on SharePoint and .NET topics.
Managing Document Templates with Content Types and Content Type Hub
Recently I wanted to manage a central set of document templates associated with content types across...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 12/13/2011
BCS - developing a .NET assembly connector presentation and demo
I'm attaching a presentation and code for developing an assembly connector for SharePoint 2010 BCS....
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 10/19/2011
SharePoint 2010 claims and Home Realm Discover - passing whr on the url to SharePoint
Home Realm Discovery is a process to select the trusted identity provider in a federated claims...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 10/02/2011
SharePoint Guidance Library Hands On Labs Released to Codeplex
The SharePoint Guidance library introduces several components that can be challenging to ramp up on...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 02/04/2011
Handling SharePointServiceLocator failures due to caching
The SharePointServiceLocator in the patterns and practices SharePoint library implements a...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 01/20/2011
Using a SharePoint Timer Job to deploy settings in a farm for registering event sources
Creating the timer job Sometimes you need to deploy settings to every web front end, or have a piece...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 12/20/2010
Debugging a FeatureInstalled event handler in SharePoint 2010
Updated: An even easier method to do this is to simply launch the debugger by adding a statement to...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 07/26/2010
PDF version of Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 available
We posted a PDF version of the patterns and practices guidance release, Developing Applications for...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 07/23/2010
Adding a central admin page for managing applications settings
You can add a page to central administration and add an entry to the central administration menu to...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 07/14/2010
Using the Applications Setting Manager with Web App Config (Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010)
We got a recent post to our discussion forums about managing settings for a web application from a...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 07/12/2010
SharePoint - Error activating type from sandboxed code assembly. The cached sandboxed assembly could not be found.
I figured I'd do a quick blog on the error since it took me a little time to run down the problem...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 05/06/2010
Input on customization scenarios for the next release of SharePoint guidance
We are rolling right into scoping the next release of patterns and practices SharePoint guidance for...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 09/18/2009
Released Developing SharePoint Applications!
We've just released Developing SharePoint Applications! Thanks to all of our advisors and a...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 09/04/2009
Terminology and SharePoint ALM
Thanks for the feedback on my last post. I figured I'd write another post since this is an area...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 03/09/2009
SharePoint and ALM – application types/classification
I’ve been doing some work on aspects of application lifecycle management with our version 2...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 03/06/2009
I'm back...
I think I must have set a record for the longest period of blog inactivity. Boy, could not believe...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 12/11/2008
Source code for SCT tokens in a Farm source code
I had a question on the source code for this sample. The link is in the article tucked near the top....
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 11/30/2004
Article is live on MSDN
I finally got an article on SCTs in a web farm live on MSDN. The sample code needs to be installed...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 11/23/2004
SCT's in a web farm
https://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/sctinfarm.asp
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 11/23/2004
Code for SCT implementation in a farm
Sorry I've been dark for a few weeks - I've been in the process of trying to get my blogs and sample...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 09/29/2004
SCT Options - Using a cookie approach with SCT's in a farm
So far I've discussed using two techniques for using SCT's in a web farm, pinning and using a...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 09/05/2004
SCT Options - Using a database to cache SCT's in a farm, final chapter
OK, so here I am in my hotel room ready to rip off a really long blog entry to close out caching...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 08/31/2004
SCT Options - Using a database to cache SCT's in a farm, Volume 2
Last entry I discussed how to extend the SCT manager, and MRUSecurityTokenCache to use a database to...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 08/29/2004
Using a database cache to share SCTs in a farm, volume 1
Sorry I’ve gone dark for the last few days just as things were getting interesting and I had...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 08/26/2004
SCT Options - Pinning a client session to a service instance
Most web developers are familiar with one way with maintaining state within a web farm from their...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 08/19/2004
Why do we need to manage state when using a Security Context Token, and what are the implications?
A security context token is a lightweight token that can be established for multiple message...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 08/18/2004
Kickoff for a procrastinator - are you a top down, middle out, or bottoms up kind of person?
I'm a software architect with the Archtecture Strategy group at Microsoft. I've been working up to...
Author: Chris Keyser Date: 08/16/2004