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Live Mesh + Visual SourceSafe = Code everywhere!
06 November 09 02:32 PM | jannemattila | 0 Comments   
For long time I have wanted have my code _ everywhere _. Just because I have 3 different computers that I use to write my own stuff. Obviously it would be nice to have version control system (such as Team Foundation Server) but for my own use it would Read More...
My Chess (another chess application)
22 October 09 05:43 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
I came up with the idea of My Chess when I wanted to play games with my friends and I noticed that I don’t have time to do that :-) So I decided to write an application that allows me to play chess with my friends just by using small amount of time every Read More...
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My Notes (a small application between notepad and OneNote)
30 April 09 10:20 AM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
I have been using Windows 7 and  Windows Server 2008 R2 since the first beta. And I mean on my “ production ” laptops. And I have to say that I haven’t had any major issues with them. In fact I’ve used to them so much that I don’t want to use older Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008: Track Active Item in Solution Explorer
21 February 09 08:58 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
If you’re working on solution that has many projects and many project items and you tend to get lost between your files ... You might want to go to Tools –> Options –> Projects and Solutions and set Track Active Item in Solution Explorer on. For Read More...
Creating Excel Game (or something similar for fun)
29 January 09 09:47 PM | jannemattila | 2 Comments   
Awhile back I saw really interesting article: Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine? After that I was forced to do small test on that and that of course resulted to this post :-) I just grabbed the idea and made small “car game” (but in reality Read More...
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Web Services and namespaces (or WCF?)
15 October 08 10:27 AM | jannemattila | 2 Comments   
You might have encountered following situation: 1. You have created class library “MyLibrary” and it contains following class: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 namespace MyLibrary { public class Employee { public string FirstName; public string LastName; } } 2. You have Read More...
Use LINQ to access CRM objects
29 August 08 03:43 PM | jannemattila | 5 Comments   
If you have written small console application to check some data from CRM database you have probably already read this article from MSDN: Use Filtered Views . That is okay but honestly I’m currently more into LINQ solution. I’ll show you what I mean... Read More...
Maximize the use of CPU with parallel extensions (+ some WPF stuff)
26 August 08 10:03 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Since this is my 40th post to this blog I decided to go back to square one… or post one actually :-) I’m going to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that solves the Knight’s Tour puzzle. I actually didn’t know about this puzzle before Read More...
Attachment(s): KnightsTour.wmv
SQL Server Profiler and SPQuery
21 June 08 10:58 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
Question: I’m using SPQuery to retrieve items from my SharePoint list and now I want to know little bit more about SPQuery properties. Actually I’m interested about performance related things since I’m not sure about my query currently. I currently have Read More...
Creating Localization Tool with Silverlight
08 June 08 03:11 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Since Silverlight 2 is in Beta 2 phase it’s definately time to create small application with it. Together with my friend we’e created small example application called Localization Tool . Idea in our example application is pretty simple... allow end users Read More...
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Attachment(s): LocalizationTool.zip
Adding CRM 4.0 to your own win app with web form authentication
26 May 08 09:15 AM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
Last year I wrote small article Adding MS CRM to your own windows forms applications that demonstrates the usage of CRM in your own custom windows forms applications. In CRM 4.0 the story is pretty much the same but there’re few things that you need to Read More...
CRM 4.0 (or SharePoint or custom application) and DebugView
07 May 08 10:04 AM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Every now and then I’m find myself trying to solve same issues over and over again :-) That’s why I found myself (again) using DebugView as my debugging assistant at remote box. If you don’t know what DebugView is then you should definitely try it out. Read More...
Simple Outlook Add-in with VSTO 3.0
06 April 08 10:56 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Creating add-ins with Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO 3.0 (Visual Studio Tools for Office) is easy and fast… Just use File –> New –> Project –> Select correct add-in i.e. Outlook 2007 Add-in and you project template is created. And you can run you Read More...
Comparing two databases (schema and/or data)
13 February 08 09:28 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Quite often people like to know what's happening under the covers when they do something through user interface. For example they use CRM, SharePoint or some other product through user interface and they would like to know what has happened at the database. Read More...
Catching unhandled exceptions in SharePoint
04 February 08 06:13 PM | jannemattila | 18 Comments   
If you have done some dev stuff with MOSS you have most likely seen this: " An unexpected error has occurred. " is something that you probably don't want to see at your browser.... you want to have customized error page. In ASP.NET application you normally Read More...
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