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When browsing the network map in Windows 7 or Vista, you may be able to see some computers, but not all of them. This is because network mapping is not enabled on domain networks by default. You may see this screen on a client machine: “Network
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Just so I don’t forget, here is how to convert a string to a byte array: System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding(); encoding.GetBytes(yourStringHere)
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When trying to create a unit test in a test project, the “Create Unit Tests” screen shows no types, thus the wizard cannot continue. The [OK] button is disabled, and the only thing the user can do is cancel the unit test wizard. This happens
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Here are some of my most recent technical articles that I wrote (and helped write) as part of the VSTS Ranger program as well as the SharePoint Ranger program. As you may know, the ranger programs are essentially field extensions of the product
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I usually build a Virtual Machine that consists of the following for SharePoint development: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 SP1 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with Team Explorer (and VSeWSS 1.3) Office 2007 SP2 Domain Controller and DNS Services I use host
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Here is a great utility to migrate SPD workflows and content types across site collections. http://spwflmigrator.codeplex.com/ Never used it myself, but it appears quite useful.
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This codeplex project allows developers to package list lookup columns as a feature and as part of a content type. This gets us around a challenge where developers try to deploy a content type that has a list lookup column which is dependent on
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Great forum post on how to resolve the error “cannot connect to the virtual machine because the authentication certificate is expired or invalid”. It all has to do with a certificate on the Hyper-V server that is only good for one year. Al
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What is the best way to judge social networking IQ? In my mind its not necessarily your knowledge of social networking from an academic perspective, nor is it your knowledge of the technical implementation and networks of social networking
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Every now and then I like to update folks on what I’m running on my hardware. Below you’ll find information on what my hardware is and what I choose to run on it. Here is my newest rig info: Hardware Lenovo T61P 4 GB of RAM SATA Optical Bay Adapter
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Because I am running Windows Server Enterprise 2008 on my Laptop with Hyper-V enabled, I continuously Remote Desktop to my Virtual Machine. Even for a domain admin in the guest, you have to have group policy configured to allow the Remote Desktop
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See this link for methods to enable Remote Debugging: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx
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While the title of this post might indicate that there is a sweeping document collaboration strategy that all teams and people use, that’s not the case necessarily. We are big at dogfooding which is a made up verb indicating that we love to try
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Scenario: A Visual Studio Workflow Foundation Workflow needs to terminate with approval given the following circumstances: 1. At least one task has been completed out of the many tasks that were assigned via the workflow to approvers 2. A field on the
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The SPFieldChoice usually holds the Int32 part of a choice field that is comprised of 2 values (the ID of the choice and the text of the field that is displayed). Take the example of a workflow status column. The ID 2 corresponds to the field
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