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May 2006 - Posts

The Office 2007 ribbon

I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the new Office 2007 ribbon. IMO, maybe it will just take time, but it's a very difficult twist to use the new ribbon feature. For anyone who has created custom toolbars for apps, your buttons now fall into the Add-ins Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:33 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Reporting Services delivery to SharePoint document library

This is one of those "must haves" for organizations. This assembly creates a web service to upload a document to which lives in SharePoint. It also creates a Reporting Services delivery provider that uploads the generated report to the web service, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:12 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Cleveland User Group Meeting

Thanks to Bennett Adelson Consulting for hosting the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group (SIG) on Tuesday. It was a good turnout and there were no visible glitches (IMO). If you'd like to view the presentation as well as the slides and source code, Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:28 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments

System.Data.Common data connections: Part 1 - Connecting with ConnectionStringSettings

This is a demonstration of how to connect to data sources using the DB provider-based objects built into the .NET 2.0 framework. I've noticed a bit of confusion around programming for the new structures, so I'm going to put together a little guide on Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:02 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Creating a recycle bin for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)

Here's a great article I wrote on my old blog about Windows SharePoint Services Recycle Bins in WSS 2.0: http://aspnetgeek.blogspot.com/2006/02/creating-recycle-bin-for-windows.html Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:47 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Preview Office 2007

In case you're in a vacuum, preview some of the new features of Office 2007 here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview Read More...
Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 10:53 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments

Adding linked files to a Visual Studio project

Here's a cool trick to add files to your project that are global. The example is for linking a strong name key file to multiple projects, but this example is also good for embedding a resource in multiple projects, or creating a baseline GlobalAssemblyInfo Read More...
Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 8:25 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Custom collections data pattern

I've put together a simple pattern for when I create new data driven objects that I'd like to share. This is the method I used in the 1.x framework for easily managing data objects. This is my version of the Lightweight Business Objects (LBO) approach. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 2:57 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Speaking at Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group May 9th

It's late notice, but I'm presenting at the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group next Tuesday, May 9th, 2006. I will be speaking on Unit Testing and Code Coverage Analysis in Visual Studio 2005. A brief overview of the agenda is as follows: Unit testing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:00 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments

Cingular SmartPhone 2125

I recently purchased a Cingular 2125 SmartPhone running Windows Mobile 5.0. I had one of the early models of the SmartPhone 2 years ago--the Motorola MPx220 (I think that's the model #). I had a lot of problems with that phone, but I can see they have Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:07 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments

Starting week 2 at Microsoft

I've started week 2 at Microsoft and part of my personal agenda was to get a blog on msdn blogs. Mission accomplished. Hello world! Read More...
Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 2:41 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
 
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