Developer Ramblings

In a recent sharepoint workflow project

I’m sure most of us are aware, today is the last official day for Bill G at Microsoft. I believe Bill G and Microsoft have pioneered a lot of this industry (Go SharePoint!!! :). They are not without faults though, but if you are trying to develop or invent something totally new and untested before, there are going to be bumps and errors, that just a fact of inventing or trying out new ideas. I found this picture (after seeing it in one of the video’s on how the picture came to be) and I thought it was pretty reflective... [Read More]

If you have a SharePoint UDC and want to embed SQL authentication into it, you need to enable that access from SharePoint. Say you have a InfoPath form, that uses a UDC you have stored in SharePoint, that UDC has a SQL account (like a service account) embedded in it, but when you view your InfoPath in Forms Services, you get an error. Well, We need to tell SharePoint that its ok to allow for embedded SQL credentials, so here is how we do that. Fire up your SharePoint Central Admin and go to Application Management. Under the InfoPath Forms... [Read More]

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