Developer Ramblings

I was working on some LINQ queries for an application, but ran into an issue where my output column needed to be a different name, other than the column name that was returned. It was rather easy but i figured I would throw it up here for future use, or for those people who haven’t run into this yet. Here is an original query that will return some strings but with the default column name (in this case it is “word”) from word in "one two three four five".Split() select new { word } Here is the update LINQ expression... [Read More]

I have been twiddling around with LINQ these past few days and cam across two tools that I really like and pretty much use them for all my LINQ query construction. The first tool is a visual studio 2008 add-in called Visual LINQ Query Builder. There is a good blog from the guy that helped write here http://blogs.msdn.com/mitsu/archive/2008/04/02/visual-linq-query-builder-for-linq-to-sql-vlinq.aspx and you can download the setup file from the following location. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq This only runs in the full blown VS tools so if your running the express editions you should probably try the next one I am going to list. The next... [Read More]

Here is a STSADM command hat will force all pending timer jobs within sharepoint. STSADM –o execadmsvcjobs

In addition to a bunch of pretty cool announcements, Microsoft has also published all of the session video’s for those of us that were not so lucky to attend. You can check them out here https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx Personally, I’m gonna take a look at the cloud computing stuff.

I had recently stood up a new SharePoint 2007 infrastructure that had a lot of custom workflows for business automation. This new infrastructure also had Citrix WISP (Web Interface for SharePoint) to provide Citrix applications to our users. Upon our testing we had noticed that none of our workflows were being kicked off. So we started checking permissions to make sure that all the security settings were set correctly to allow for the workflows to kick off and to access the fields in the library’s as necessary. After all the permissions were verified I checked the SharePoint log file to... [Read More]