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Working with large lists in Office SharePoint® Server 2007

2008-01-13T13:24:18Z

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=95450&clcid-0x409

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

2008-01-05T15:05:27Z

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

2007-12-11T07:46:35Z

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target:

Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and dynamic data
Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework
Creating the best server for Rich Clients - including Ajax history support and Silverlight controls for ASP.NET readmore

How to check whether the assembly in debug mode

2007-12-07T17:31:42Z

Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(@"D:\WCF\WindowsFormsApplication3\WindowsFormsApplication3\bin\Debug\WindowsFormsApplication3.exe");

object[] attributes = assembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(System.Diagnostics.DebuggableAttribute), true);

if ((attributes != null ) && (attributes.Length > 0))

{

MessageBox.Show("Debug mode:");

}

How to add work item programmatically

2007-12-03T09:49:18Z

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Xml;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;

using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client;

class LogBugs

{

Project proj = null;

public LogBugs()

{

string serverName = "<<ServerIPAddress>>";

string projectName = "<<ProjectName>>";

Console.WriteLine("Connecting to {0}...", serverName);

// Popup the authentication dialog

TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer(serverName, new UICredentialsProvider());

tfs.EnsureAuthenticated();

WorkItemStore store = (WorkItemStore)tfs.GetService(typeof(WorkItemStore));

proj = store.Projects[projectName];

}

/// <summary>

/// Adds a new work item to the Team System project

/// </summary>

public string AddNewWorkItem(string type, string title, string desc, string source, string severity, string bugType, string rootCauseCategory, string rootCauseAnalysis)

{

WorkItemType wit = proj.WorkItemTypes[type];

WorkItem wi = new WorkItem(wit);

wi.Title = title;

wi.Description = desc;

wi["Assigned To"] = "<<Assigned To>>";

wi["Severity (G)"] = severity;

wi["Bug Type (G)"] = bugType;

wi["Root Cause (G)"] = rootCauseCategory;

wi["Root Cause Analysis (G)"] = rootCauseAnalysis;

wi["Source (G)"] = "<<Source>>";

wi.AreaPath = "<<Area Path>>";

wi.IterationPath = @"<<IterationPath>>";

if (!ValidityCheck(wi))

{

Console.WriteLine("Unable to save, Invalid Fields");

return "0";

}

else

{

wi.Save();

Console.WriteLine("Successfully saved the workitem");

return wi.Id.ToString();

}

/// <summary>

/// Validates the field before saving.

/// </summary>

private static bool ValidityCheck(WorkItem wi)

{

ArrayList invalidFields = wi.Validate();

if (invalidFields.Count == 0)

{

return true;

}

else

{

foreach (Field f in invalidFields)

{

Console.WriteLine("Invalid Field Found '{0}': {1}", f.Name, f.Status.ToString());

Console.WriteLine("Current Value: '{0}'", f.Value);

Console.WriteLine();

}

return false;

}

How to detect which control caused postback

2007-11-07T15:36:10Z

public static Control GetPostBackControl(Page page)
    {
        Control control = null;
        string ctrlname = page.Request.Params.Get("__EVENTTARGET");
        if (ctrlname != null && ctrlname != string.Empty)
        {
            control = page.FindControl(ctrlname);
        }
        else
        {
            foreach (string ctl in page.Request.Form)
            {
               if ((ctl.LastIndexOf(".x") > 0) || (ctl.LastIndexOf(".y") > 0))
                {
                    control = page.FindControl(ctl.Substring(0, ctl.Length - 2));
                    break;
                }
                control = page.FindControl(ctl);
                if ((control is System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button))
                {
                    break;
                }
             }
          }
        return control;
        }

How do I detect a session has expired and redirect it to another page

2007-11-07T15:34:35Z

override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
       base.OnInit(e);
if (Context.Session != null)
   {    if (Session.IsNewSession)
    {
    string szCookieHeader = Request.Headers["Cookie"];
     if ((null != szCookieHeader) && (szCookieHeader.IndexOf("ASP.NET_SessionId") >= 0))
     {
      Response.Redirect("sessionTimeout.htm");
     }
    }
   }
}

Contract Types

2007-09-27T17:36:01Z

The different types of message exchange patterns (mep) that contacts can take : Request -reply,One - way or duplex.

Request-reply services are the default type of operation contract in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Clients make call to service operations and wait for a response from the service.

To create request-reply service contract, define your service contract, and apply the OperationContractAttribute class to each operation, as shown in the following sample code.

[ServiceContract(Namespace="http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples")]
public interface ICalculator
{
    [OperationContract]
    double Add(double n1, double n2);
}

System Provided Bindings

2007-09-26T19:27:21Z

Binding	Configuration Element	Description
BasicHttpBinding	<basicHttpBinding>	A binding that is suitable for communicating with WS-Basic Profile conformant Web services, for example, ASP.NET Web services (ASMX)-based services. This binding uses HTTP as the transport and text/XML as the default message encoding.
WSHttpBinding	<wsHttpBinding>	A secure and interoperable binding that is suitable for nonduplex service contracts.
WSDualHttpBinding	<wsDualHttpBinding>	A secure and interoperable binding that is suitable for duplex service contracts or communication through SOAP intermediaries.
WSFederationHttpBinding	<wsFederationHttpBinding>	A secure and interoperable binding that supports the WS-Federation protocol, enabling organizations that are in a federation to efficiently authenticate and authorize users.
NetTcpBinding	<netTcpBinding>	A secure and optimized binding suitable for cross-machine communication between WCF applications.
NetNamedPipeBinding	<netNamedPipeBinding>	A secure, reliable, optimized binding that is suitable for on-machine communication between WCF applications.
NetMsmqBinding	<netMsmqBinding>	A queued binding that is suitable for cross-machine communication between WCF applications.
NetPeerTcpBinding	<netPeerTcpBinding>	A binding that enables secure, multimachine communication.
MsmqIntegrationBinding	<msmqIntegrationBinding>	A binding that is suitable for cross-machine communication between a WCF application and existing Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) applications.

Binding Features

2007-09-26T19:22:35Z

The following table shows some of the key features provided by the system-provided binding.

Binding	Interoperability	Mode Of Security	Session (Default)	Transaction	Duplex
BasicHttpBinding	Basic Profile 1.1	(None), Transport, Message, Mixed	None, (None)	(None)	n/a
WSHttpBinding	WS	None, Transport, (Message), Mixed	(None), Transport, Reliable Session	(None), Yes	n/a
WSDualHttpBinding	WS	None, (Message)	(Reliable Session)	(None), Yes	Yes
WSFederationHttpBinding	WS-Federation	None, (Message), Mixed	(None), Reliable Session	(None), Yes	No
NetTcpBinding	.NET	None, (Transport), Message, Mixed	Reliable Session, (Transport)	(None), Yes	Yes
NetNamedPipeBinding	.NET	None, (Transport)	None, (Transport)	(None), Yes	Yes
NetMsmqBinding	.NET	None, Message, (Transport), Both	(None)	(None), Yes	No
NetPeerTcpBinding	Peer	None, Message, (Transport), Mixed	(None)	(None)	Yes
MsmqIntegrationBinding	MSMQ	None, (Transport)	(None)	(None), Yes	n/a

Building a Specific Version with Team Build

2007-09-13T16:12:12Z

Please check out the blog entry by Aaron

http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/archive/2006/09/19/building-a-specific-version-with-team-build.aspx

Enable FxCop / CodeAnalysis for website projects programatically

2007-08-16T20:31:57Z

The following macro programatically enables FxCop / CodeAnalysis for website projects only

Imports System

Imports EnvDTE

Imports EnvDTE80

Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module Module1

Sub Macro1()

Dim proj As EnvDTE.Project

For i As Integer = 1 To DTE.Solution.Projects.Count

proj = CType(DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(i), EnvDTE.Project)

If (proj.Kind = "{E24C65DC-7377-472b-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") Then

proj.Properties.Item("EnableFxCop").Value = True
proj.Save()
End If

End Sub

End Module

End Point

2007-02-14T12:29:39Z

All communication with a WCF service occurs through EndPoint.

Each Endpoint consists of four properties

1. Address

a. Indicates where the endpoint can be found.

Address contains the URI and identity and optional message headers to contains additional information or more information to identify or interact with the endpoint

2. Binding

a. Specifies as to how to communicate with the endpoint. This includes Transport (http/tcp), Encoding (text /binary) and security requirements.

3. Contract

a. Identifies the operation available. This includes the operation available. Input / output parameters.

4. Behaviour

a. specifies local implementation details of the endpoint

Web Service Factory Article

2007-02-06T08:14:02Z

Aaron Skonnard's latest Service Factory article

Commerce Server 2007 Performance Guide

2007-02-03T14:53:00Z

Link to Download Commerce Server 2007 Performance Guide