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Internet Explorer 8 and InPrivate Filtering
22 November 09 08:59 AM | jannemattila | 4 Comments   
I just noticed pretty cool feature which I have previously managed to miss. And that is InPrivate Filtering in IE8. It’s basically mechanism that allows you to filter content from the web pages. Previously I haven’t thought this as “ Adblock functionality Read More...
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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...
Attaching debugger to w3wp.exe using nice and easy keyboard shortcut
30 October 08 10:56 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
How many times have you done some web development and used following method to attach your Visual Studio Debugger to w3wp.exe (a.k.a. Debug > Attach to Process –method):   And then you scroll the long list and find your w3wp.exe and press attach: 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...
Tip: Disable RunOnce from Internet Explorer in your VPC images
17 September 08 02:30 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
If you’re working with VPC images that cannot connect to internet you might have noticed annoying thing at Internet Explorer. IE tries to connect to internet so that it could finish up the setup. It’s good if you CAN connect to internet but it’s really Read More...
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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...
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Link: SharePoint slow spin-up times…
29 May 08 06:14 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
I accidently found myself on this page: SharePoint 2007 Quirks - Solving painfully slow spin-up times . After reading that article I was forced to test that. And my stsadm experience was really fast after that! So this link deserves a link post even if Read More...
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...
Custom SharePoint application and System.IO.FileNotFoundException
23 February 08 10:55 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
Question: I have normal user access rights at SharePoint but I'm administrator of the physical SharePoint box. I don't have access rights to SharePoint databases but I still need to run few lines of code against SharePoint. I have created small console Read More...
CRM 4.0, SharePoint and ASP.NET Trace
23 February 08 08:12 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Sometimes I tend to forget how much stuff is built into .NET Framework. Framework gives you nice set of features that you can use without writing a single line of code. ASP.NET Trace is one of them. I know that it's nothing new but I think that it's still 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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