March 2007 - Posts

• SQL Server Authentication Modes

  A fellow consultant here in Denver sent out a message yesterday inquiring about formal recommendations regarding the use of Windows Authentication vs. SQL Authentication. It seems that quite a few customers out there ponder these choices for a variety Read More... Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 6:12 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments

• Testing for Expected Exceptions with Visual Studio

  Since I seem to be on a roll blogging this morning, I thought I'd see if I could get one more in before my baby girl wakes up to have breakfast with "Da-da." When transitioning a couple of years ago from using NUnit to Visual Studio 2005, I noticed that Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:28 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: Core Development

• What's in a name? "DefaultFeatureReceiver" vs. "FeatureConfigurator"

  In my previous post ( Scope Dependencies for SharePoint Features ) you may have noticed that in the Feature.xml file, I specified the feature receiver class as DefaultFeatureReceiver but the code sample is actually from FeatureConfigurator . This warrants Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:07 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Scope Dependencies for SharePoint Features

  While integrating various SharePoint features last week, I discovered some of the details around the dependency rules when trying to associate one feature to another. In our solution, we have created a feature for specifying custom fields (i.e. columns) Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:17 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 2 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• "Error Creating Control" when using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

  If, like me, you happen to encounter the following user experience when attempting to edit a master page... Figure 1: SharePoint Designer - "Error Creating Control" See full-sized image. ...then follow these steps to resolve the issue: Start Control Panel Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 6 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Be "In the Zone" to Avoid Entering Credentials

  Since I tend to work on server products such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, I frequently see developers and other team members that I work with constantly entering their credentials when browsing to some Web page on a server. While this experience Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:50 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: My System

• BackedUp and NotBackedUp

  About four years ago, one of the partners that I was working on an engagement with commented on how developers tend to have their own unique way of managing files, but that mine was one of the most bizarre he had ever seen. It has been four years, but Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:59 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 7 Comments Filed under: My System

• Who is this guy?

  Ugh! I reserved my MSDN blog address in May of 2005 and almost two years later I am sitting down to author my first blog post. I joined Microsoft in September of 2000 after a series of interesting experiences in the telecommunications and healthcare industries. Read More... Posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:20 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal