09 July 2008
Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, February 2007
I've recently written an ASP.NET web application to programmatically execute SQL Server 2000 DTS packages and jobs and report on the outcome. I should really have the link below bookmarked given the amount of times I've used it. Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, February 2007 Read More...
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03 July 2008
Newcastle SharePoint User Group
I'm heading over to Newcastle for the SharePoint User Group tonight. It's a whiteboard session on MOSS Architecture. Newcastle SharePoint User Group Hope to see you there if you are going. UPDATE.... Big thank you to John Timney (Cap Gemini), Brian English (Cap Gemini) and Phil Hunter (BT) for... Read More...
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06 May 2008
SUBST, GAC and SharePoint
Working with SharePoint, sometimes you just have to install assemblies to the GAC. An example of this I have had to deal with recently was writing a webpart to access methods in the UserProfileManager class. Debugging GAC installed assemblies can be a bit frustrating, hopefully the following steps will... Read More...
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30 April 2008
VBUG Newcastle: VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and Win 2008 Launch Event
I'm presenting tonight on SQL Server 2008, along with Rik who is presenting on Windows Server 2008 and Richard who is presenting on Visual Studio 2008. VBUG Newcastle: VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and Win 2008 Launch Event Hope to see you there. Read More...
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17 March 2008
Developer Day Scotland
I'm going, are you? This is a community event, by the community for the community. Get yourself there, registration is now open . Read More...
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28 February 2008
Silverlight 2.0
As Ferris Bueller said "Life moves pretty fast". Silverlight 1.0 was released last September, the first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 ain't that far away...check out Scott Guthrie's blog post here . Read More...
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27 February 2008
Calculation Settings in Excel
Sometimes Excel doesn't behave as you expect and you learn something. Excel is complex as Joel Spolsky pointed out last week. Quite often clients will send data updates in Excel spreadsheets as this is the format they are used to working with; even if you as a programmer are not. One such workbook... Read More...
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26 February 2008
Diagnosing referential integrity using TSQL
Quite often you work on databases that you didn't write. Getting up to speed on the structure of the tables and the relationships between them is not something you relish. The GUIs provided by SQL Server 2000 or 2005 don't always provide the best way, particularly with regard to complex referential... Read More...
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30 January 2008
Accessing User Profile Information in WSS 3.0
MOSS and WSS 3.0 handle user profiles differently. In MOSS, user profile information is stored centrally and can be shared across site collections. Profiles can be manipulated using the UserProfileManager class found in Microsoft.Office.Server.dll. Life just isn't the same when working with WSS 3... Read More...
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28 January 2008
Microsoft Boy announces his school homework
Very funny . Read More...
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28 January 2008
Granting permissions on the GAC
Normally you don't encounter permission errors when installing to the global assembly cache (GAC). Today I did, even though I was logged on as a member of the administrators group (not that being an administrator is a guarantee of much). If you navigate using Windows Explorer to %windir%\assembly... Read More...
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25 January 2008
SharePoint User Group - Newcastle
Big thank you to Penny Coventry and Steve Smith for presenting at the SharePoint User Group UK Newcastle meeting on Wednesday night. Both were excellent sessions. Penny gave an overview of SharePoint Designer , which if not already, will probably become your default tool for design and basic development... Read More...
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20 December 2007
SharePoint 2007 "Friendly" Error Messages
SharePoint 2007 displays a nice "friendly" error message when anything goes wrong. This "friendly" error message usually provides no useful information about why the error has occurred (sometimes you get an HRESULT). It may be friendly but isn't usually very helpful, not for a... Read More...
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18 December 2007
Gary Short Presentation
Gary Short is speaking at Glasgow Caledonian University, 7pm, 16th January 2008. I saw him speak at DDD 6 and he was excellent. Well worth a trip to see. Link to presentation details Read More...
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07 December 2007
SQL Server Status
In SQL Server 2000 you could query the sysdatabases table to find out the "status" of a database. This field was actually a bit mask and the sysdatabases table is only available in SQL Server 2005 for backwards compatability. The sysdatabases table "maps" to the sys.databases system... Read More...
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