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Technical Weblog of Eric Charran

A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges

September 2006 - Posts

CAML Viewer
Another great community developed tool. This one takes some of the complexity about learning the CAML syntax for MOSS 2007. The Stramit Caml Viewer 2007 allows you to connect to a MOSS site and reverse engineer the CAML from lists, etc. http://www.sharepointblogs.com/gally/archive/2006/09/19/12432.aspx Read More...
Compacting Virtual Hard Disks
My little USB hard drive recently ran into a space constraint issue because of the footprint of my Virtual Machines I keep stored there. So I went about attempting to reclaim some space by collapsing my Virtual Machines expanding disks and freeing space Read More...
MOSS 2007 Development Decision Matrix
Chris Johnson posted a great article on the options for conducting UI application development in MOSS 2007. Many of us conducting MOSS development have been through this exercise in deciding about how to conduct development. See his article here: Application Read More...
Great MOSS 2007 Tool - BDC Metadata Manager
Every once in a while there is a truly serendipitous invention for software development that really hits a spot where there are apparent gaps. Anyone that has examined the MOSS 2007 Business Data Catalog realizes that its not going to be much fun monkeying Read More...
Minor MOSS 2007 Tip
For those adjusting to the changes from Beta 2 to Beta 2 TR, the Internet Web Presence has been renamed to Publishing Portal. I spent quite some time trying to figure out where it went. Just goes to show that even I should read the directions (captions) Read More...
Using the Active Directory Membership Provider with Forms Authentication in MOSS 2007
Because MOSS 2007 supports the ASP.NET membership provider model there are new worlds in which SharePoint can tread that it has not be able to in the past. Specifically, MOSS 2007 represents a fantastic platform for the presentation of a public internet Read More...
Virtual PC on Vista RC1
After either installing a fresh Vista RC1 image or upgrading from the Beta, when launching Virtual PC, you might get this error message: Access to the external network and host will be unavailable to all virtual machines using virtual networking. Virtual Read More...
Virtual PC Network and Vista RC1
For those upgraded to RC1 and attempting to run Virtual PC, you might get the following error message: Virtual PC could not open the Virtual Machine Network Services driver To resolve, right click your network connection and then select properties>install>service>add Read More...
Vista RC1 is Officially in my Beta Stack
I'm positive that this is the first of many posts you'll see in the blogs.msdn.com main feed, but I have just installed RC 1 for Vista. So, here is my non General Availability (GA) software profile I'm running on my Tablet PC Tecra M4 for my everyday Read More...
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