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Truly Understanding Viewstate Mirrored

Dave Reed and Trevor Morrison summarized the implementation challenges around the use of Viewstate . To help out their great work and the ensuing discussion I offered to mirror the content that Trevor captured and summarized to help with the demand: PDF Version Word Document Version Please right-click...
    by Colin

Retrieving the Current User's Active Directory Object

If you are writing a program that leverages Active Directory then there may be times where you want to retrieve the current user's AD object. It can be handy for situations where you need the user's email address, account information, or some other piece of data stored in the directory. Below...
    by Colin

Is SharePoint really ready for prime time?

We have had a weird error crop again with Office SharePoint Server. This time it is crashing daily showing a generic Runtime Error message to the client and the following message to one of our applications calling into the web service: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Services, Version...
    by Colin

Unit Testing SQL Providers in ASP.NET

I think I finally found a use for SQL Server Express Edition ! For the longest time I wondered why I would want to use this not-quite-the-full-thing version of SQL Server. When you have an MSDN subscription you have SQL Server Developer Edition and it offers you all that you want and more. The answer...
    by Colin

The Sad State of Installation

I am in the process of reinstalling all of the applications after reinstalling my development workstation. I had envisioned using the Business Desktop Deployment 2007 accelerator, but I got too impatient. With hopes of getting towards an automated rebuild at some point I am approaching application installations...
    by Colin

Adding Links to Blog Articles

So you have figured out what you want to do with your spiffy new Community Server theme. You are thinking "hey, I should add a page that lists all the fabulous widgets I've been involved with". You don't want to have to open Visual Studio and republish your theme every time you make...
    by Colin

Chillin' at Energize IT

Are you at Energize IT in Toronto? If so, come find me and say hello! I'll be at the Ask the Experts both in the morning and the gadget track in the afternoon.
    by Colin

Accepting Information Cards on your ASP.NET site using Windows CardSpace

I have been experimenting with Information Cards with the intent of plugging them into the Community Server blog commenting system. If you have not immersed yourself in the world of information cards here is a quick rundown: Why information cards? Identity on the Internet today is what you say about...
    by Colin

Mobile Web Application Project and Item Templates

The attached Mobile Web Application Project and Item Template collection is an adaptation of Omar Khan's mobile project item collection to deliver a project template in addition to the item templates. Community Server limits post attachments to one per post (hope this changes in the future Telligent...
    by Colin

The joy (or rather not so joyful) of COM interop

It turns out that the ISimpleList and IDictionary objects will not always return to you a value which is typed with the .NET equivalent types. It makes for a bit of a sticky situation when you are trying to determine if the type is compatible in the world of generic collections. I had to make a key change...
    by Colin
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