Suman Chakrabarti - Coding for Office Apps

Office Collaboration, .NET dev, Social Computing and other random bits of goodness

PowerShell Approach Setting the lock state for a site collection has a few rules that aren't...

Date: 11/19/2014

One thing I had trouble finding was how to change the logo in my Office 365 tenant. It's not obvious...

Date: 11/19/2014

Overview Unit testing the Office Developer Patterns & Practices Core solution was definitely a...

Date: 09/03/2014

Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Pinterest, and all the other social media outlets have an amazing...

Date: 05/12/2014

Many organizations I've worked with are trying to ensure multilingual support in their SharePoint...

Date: 03/06/2012

I was having a lot of trouble with this, so I'm going to share it. Visual Studio 2010 setup projects...

Date: 11/03/2011

I've always wondered which is the fastest technique to do a string comparison? using the...

Date: 05/26/2010

I scoured Bing (and Google) to find out why my Visual Studio unit tests will not allow me to test my...

Date: 04/16/2010

So, I had the exact same problem as Tim Heuer (New hard drive means re-install everything). 150GB...

Date: 04/12/2010

With all the microblogging I do, I've found myself writing less informative blogs. I started a...

Date: 01/05/2010

I had problems getting the Hyper-V Integration components installed in my VPC this evening. After a...

Date: 10/08/2009

This should have been obvious to me, and whoever you are searching for this, but apparently it's not...

Date: 10/07/2009

This is the first app that I get to work on for a customer that uses WPF and WCF. I'm finding the...

Date: 09/24/2009

You just want the error message to be displayed on the default SharePoint error page. Is this an...

Date: 01/25/2009

This one is an awesome feature to add if you've got an application running a workflow asynchronously...

Date: 01/25/2009

Following the lead of Sara Ford, I think I want to do a 'How do I' piece for SharePoint developers....

Date: 01/25/2009

In case you missed hearing about the new SDK, here's a great post on what's in it....

Date: 09/01/2008

I had enough trying to find this code, so I'm putting what I've pieced together to activate a...

Date: 08/16/2008

I hate fishing around to get the publickeytoken for my strong named assemblies, so I fished around...

Date: 07/16/2008

So, I scoured the internet (all of it, I swear) to find some information on readonly fields in...

Date: 06/24/2008

I just bought a video camera online, so I figured I'd check out the Live Cashback program and see if...

Date: 05/29/2008

I just got my Navigon 7100 GPS and I have to say I'm impressed. I really like the navigation quality...

Date: 05/18/2008

I presented a Silverlight 1.0/2.0 demonstration yesterday at CodeCamp and it went quite well. Most...

Date: 04/14/2008

I ran into a problem when trying to use Peschka's PartCheck code for My Site autoconfiguration to...

Date: 03/26/2008

I'm speaking at Pittsburgh's Code Camp on April 12th located at University of Pittsburgh's Sennott...

Date: 03/26/2008

Depending on your hardware configuration IIS 6.0 does have a potential limit to the number of...

Date: 03/25/2008

I posted these to Joel Oleson's MSDN blog, but since he's moving the blog, I didn't want to lose...

Date: 03/20/2008

Unfortunately, you cannot natively migrate web part pages to WCM publishing pages. The benefit of...

Date: 03/16/2008

This is a diversion from the usual tech stuff I blog, but my mother just published her book--a dream...

Date: 02/03/2008

It's nice to have that handy-dandy search bar in the upper right corner of your Internet Explorer...

Date: 01/29/2008

So, I was recently asked how to migrate MyLinks from an SPS2003 SharePoint site. The hurdle is that...

Date: 01/10/2008

I put together this post on my old blog about 2 years ago and was recently asked questions about...

Date: 11/28/2007

Some great articles on SharePoint best practices have been published on MSDN. Best Practices: Common...

Date: 11/16/2007

If you're into MOSS customizations, check out Brett Geoffroy's MSDN blog. He's done a sweet job...

Date: 11/13/2007

Official SharePoint Blog – this site has real world examples...

Date: 09/19/2007

Just saw a great demo on planning sites and found out how to use managed paths to create site...

Date: 07/25/2007

I just had a recent discovery for a great SP content source! I think from now on before I leave a...

Date: 07/25/2007

One of the features of SharePoint is its WebDAV available interface. An advantage to this interface...

Date: 07/03/2007

To put together the right query to get users that are not disabled accounts nor service accounts,...

Date: 06/28/2007

Links to configuration of Notes search in SharePointTechNet: Lotus Notes Configuration for...

Date: 03/31/2007

I'm up here in Boston learning about some features I didn't know about in MOSS 2007 from Scot...

Date: 01/17/2007

I'm working on my first major AJAX project and I've been following the updates this entire time. I...

Date: 01/05/2007

My Active Directory activities have been published to the .NET 3.0 web site. They are available...

Date: 12/21/2006

I've been working on building out some AD activities for Windows Workflow Foundation. A few months...

Date: 11/30/2006

It didn't take people long to hack it. https://phaleux.com/?cat=1 This is obviously not supported by...

Date: 11/24/2006

Got my Zune! WooHoo! This thing is awesome! First impressions were that it's a little bulky, and I...

Date: 11/17/2006

I've never owned an iPod or any music/video specific device (just my smartphone), so I never really...

Date: 11/10/2006

If you have an iPod or have been thinking of getting one, the new Zune media player is coming out...

Date: 09/27/2006

Okay, something cool again. Office Live! gives you a personalizable web site and some Live! Mail...

Date: 09/25/2006

This was a little too cool to pass up. You can add maps from Windows Live! Local to your Outlook...

Date: 09/09/2006

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