Developer Ramblings

Recently I had to throw a quick little WebPart together so instead of writing all the dynamic code to create the controls, add it to the collection, etc (you know, the typical WebPart creation method) I thought I would just throw in the SmartPart and bind it to a user control. Simple enough right? well, its takes a little bit of work to get the SmartPart installed into Wss/MOSS, but once you go through the following steps you should be able to use it like butter ;)   The first step is to download the SmartPart from codeplex. You can... [Read More]

Very good system cleaner (nCleaner – A Free App for System Cleaning) here   Cool application management tools from microsoft research Microsoft Scalable Fabric

I thought this was a pretty pertinent little skit on politicians and the current election. We see the candidates making all kinds of promises ( most of them which will never be heard from again) and spending HUGE amounts of money to run a campaign. Now I’m gonna get on my soapbox a little here. I recently read that by the time this election cycle has finished, the two campaigns will have spent a combined 200 million dollars…. THAT’s 200 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!. Why do we allow politicians to spend so much money on campaigning? Certainly we can think of better... [Read More]

As I was browsing around some blog sites trying to get caught up with some research, I noticed that there is a new SharePoint site launched. It’s called SharePoint magazine and you can check it out here. It looks very promising for our moss developers, although I haven’t read every piece of the site, but any site that provides more SharePoint info is a good thing :) SharePoint Magazine Site I’m out!

I was recently working on a SharePoint workflow project where I had to connect to an exchange infrastructure to manipulate a bunch of calendar and public folder objects. Now since this organization had Exchange 2007 one option was to use the new Web Services that the Exchange has rolled out. This would have been a good solution but I already had a bunch of code in my library (Already Written ;)) that did much of what was requested, but it was all MAPI based!! Doa! Hmmm…. Dilemma.. I could request that outlook be installed on the SharePoint server where the... [Read More]