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Problems getting Hyper-V to install the Integration Services components?

I had problems getting the Hyper-V Integration components installed in my VPC this evening. After a lot of kicking and stomping, I found a fellow MSFT-ie had the same issue and resolved it. Most of the issue is the fact that Hyper-V's integration components Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:52 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments

Boot from VHD on a Bitlocker enabled host...not happening

This should have been obvious to me, and whoever you are searching for this, but apparently it's not possible to have a host OS that's bitlocker enabled and use the boot from VHD. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799282(WS.10).aspx Bitlocker Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:13 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments

Working on my first WPF/WCF app for a customer...

This is the first app that I get to work on for a customer that uses WPF and WCF. I'm finding the XML to be a bit cumbersome. Although the tools do help you get things right with WPF, I think the WCF tools are complicated. I believe the next steps for Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:48 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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'How do I' get redirected to the default Error or Success layouts pages?

You just want the error message to be displayed on the default SharePoint error page. Is this an easy In Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility there are 2 functions: SPUtility.TransferToErrorPage - this transfers the user to the administrative layouts Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:32 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments
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'How do I' create a long running operation page (gears page)?

This one is an awesome feature to add if you've got an application running a workflow asynchronously and on-the-fly ( see post on programmatically launching a workflow ) and you want to coordinate the results of said workflow synchronously, so.you have Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:29 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments

'How do I' create a layouts page

Following the lead of Sara Ford , I think I want to do a 'How do I' piece for SharePoint developers. I don't know how long this will last, but this is the first post. First off, layout pages require the following directives. Try as I may, I have never Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:42 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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MOSS/WSS SDK 1.4 - has Federated Search web part examples

In case you missed hearing about the new SDK, here's a great post on what's in it. http://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/archive/2008/08/28/just-published-wss-and-moss-sdk-1-4-download-and-online-msdn-library-8-29-2008.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 11:54 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments

Starting/Canceling a SharePoint Designer workflow programmatically

I had enough trying to find this code, so I'm putting what I've pieced together to activate a workflow programmatically (specifically a SharePoint Designer Workflow) public static string StartWorkflow(ContractListItem contract, string workflowName) { Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 5:12 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments

Get PublicKeyToken using external tools

I hate fishing around to get the publickeytoken for my strong named assemblies, so I fished around for a way to do it in Visual Studio. Here's what I did: Create a new External Tool - I called mine Get PublicKeyToken Map to the sn.exe file in the Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:15 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments
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SharePoint ReadOnly Field can be written to by workflows

So, I scoured the internet (all of it, I swear) to find some information on readonly fields in SharePoint. Apparently, SharePoint workflows can write to readonly columns. The only problem I'm having now is getting the column to show up in a columns list. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:16 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Windows Live Cashback program ROCKS!

I just bought a video camera online, so I figured I'd check out the Live Cashback program and see if it would work out well. It totally rocked. I found the camera I wanted at a better price than I could find on other online shopping search sites, then Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:21 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 4 Comments

Navigon - a Windows Mobile 6 GPS

I just got my Navigon 7100 GPS and I have to say I'm impressed. I really like the navigation quality of the GPS, especially compared to my TomTom ONE. I like the TomTom's ease of use--in fact, I like it better than my friends Garmin nuvi, but the TomTom Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:57 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Presentation at CodeCamp Pittsburgh

I presented a Silverlight 1.0/2.0 demonstration yesterday at CodeCamp and it went quite well. Most importantly, it compiled; hey, that's half the battle. The talk started out about how POX is not truly a ReST service because POX services are not usually Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 11:47 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Addition to Steve Peschka's PartCheck code

I ran into a problem when trying to use Peschka's PartCheck code for My Site autoconfiguration to modify some boolean fields on the Colleague Tracker web part and found some modifications you'll need to make in order to set boolean fields on controls Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:47 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Presenting at Pittsburgh Code Camp - WCF POX/ReST Services with Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0

I'm speaking at Pittsburgh's Code Camp on April 12th located at University of Pittsburgh's Sennott Square. I'll be presenting POX services using WCF and ReST (although many will agree that POX is not truly ReST) to supply data to a Silverlight 1.0 application Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:37 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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