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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...
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...
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
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...
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 | 19 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...
Few development tips for CRM 4.0
21 January 08 10:57 AM | jannemattila | 19 Comments   
If you are working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and your planning to do code customizations then you probably should keep on reading. And why am I talking about code customizations and not just customizations ? Well just because in CRM you can do a Read More...
Free the SPWeb!
29 June 07 05:30 PM | jannemattila | 7 Comments   
Every SharePoint developer knows that you need to free resources that you have used... like SPWeb (and others too!). Most often freeing up the resources are easily managed with the nice using -statement like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 using ( SPSite site = new Read More...
Adding functionalities to pages by inheriting PublishingLayoutPage
14 April 07 12:37 AM | jannemattila | 30 Comments   
If you have worked a lot with MOSS you probably know how to make new page layouts. But if you create new page layouts you might sometimes wonder that how could I add some common functionalities to my page layout pages. One example could be localization. Read More...
Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio
04 March 07 12:41 PM | jannemattila | 13 Comments   
I have used Windows Vista from last November and now I have noticed that I'm really heavy user of search. Before Vista I had a lot of problems finding my stuff because I just couldn't remember where I have saved my files. I used my own directory structures Read More...
Solving small puzzles (with just a few lines of code)
07 January 07 02:42 PM | jannemattila | 7 Comments   
For my first blog post I decided to choose subject that is just really me: Solving small puzzles. It's one of my weird hobbies that requires a bit of understanding of the puzzle and of course some programming skills. I have used this same idea that I'm Read More...

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