Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint Part 2
Friday, July 27, 2007
In the first post I said that there are a lot of good instructions for setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint. I’m still not going to rehash those instructions, because for the most part they are easy. Setup the database, add a user or two, configure SharePoint for forms authentication and let it know the DB info. Simple right? So let’s complicate it a bit. If you follow the instructions and hit your SharePoint site you’ll get a SharePoint looking login page.…
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Tim Sneath's 50 Silverlight Applications
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tim Sneath posted a blog entry titled “From A to Z… 50 Silverlight Applications ” Now I am really excited about Silverlight, but with the customers that I have to support I have to be realistic when it comes to developing solutions. Microsoft has stated that Silverlight 1.0 will be released this summer. For those of you new to Microsoft product development that means it will be released probably in October or November.…
JavaScript Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008
Monday, June 25, 2007
With Visual Studio 2008 I’ve done something I never thought I’d do. I’m actually using a beta of Visual Studio to write production code at work. I’m doing that not because it’s the most stable platform, it’s at beta 1 quality right now. I’m using it because of all the great features it adds as well as the unique ability that it can now target a .NET Framework that is different from the one it was written for.…
How do I Add a Blank Row to Data from a SQL Query?
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Yesterday I was writing a SQL Query that would return data to be displayed in a drop-down list. Rather than add a row first that contained your typical “Select One” and then bind the data, I wanted the data returned from my SQL Query to contain that row first. I’ve done this in the past and I can’t remember how I did it. This time I decided to use a UNION operator.…
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Fret not, this is not the longest product name in Microsoft history. This is a very useful product and I use it on my main development machine so that I can have multiple development environments for all of my many different projects. I would highly recommend this over VirtualPC 2007. The service pack adds so many new features it really should be called Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R3. You can now use this natively on a 64-bit OS and it also makes use of hardware virtualization.…
Coding Horror on Observing Users
Friday, June 8, 2007
Coding Horror has a post today with a title, “Don’t Ask – Observe”. In it he documents how if you ask a user what features from a set they want they will tell you they want them all. Technically he cites a “digital device” and when asked to chose from 25 features most people wanted about 80% of them. However, in using the object with all those features they longed for the simpler object.…
Be Excellent to Other Onload Events
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend lately with regards to the onload event of an HTML page. This trend includes one developer overwriting the onload event with their own function. I’ve seen some web pages that have this for the body tag: <body onload="myLoadFunction();"> And because this doesn’t seem to work for them they put this right before the closing body tag: <script type="text/javascript"> myLoadFunction(); </script> </body> They do this without first finding out why the onload doesn’t work.…
IIS7 Will be in Server Core!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Well, maybe not the whole thing, but you will be able to serve static HTML, Classic ASP, JSP, PHP, and ColdFusion from a Server Core server. This is a really cool thing and I think it’s a great application for the Server Core. It seems to me a more reasonable version of Windows than the Web edition. This was announced today at TechEd. I am kicking myself that I am not there right now, but I am getting as much information as I can from here .…
New Windows Live Writer
Friday, June 1, 2007
Today I got the new version of Windows Live Writer. I’m in the beta program for it and as such I am testing it. One thing that I found annoying about the last version was it’s use of the WebLog API. I implemented this API for my blog and I noticed that when listing out the sites available for publishing Windows Live Writer used the Name of the blog and not the Blog ID.…
Silverlight Enter the Breaking Changes
Thursday, May 24, 2007
One of the dangers of using pre-release software is the breaking changes that inevitably come along before the final version. The number of breaking changes between WPF beta 1 and WPF beta 2 were enough to discourage me from continuing on that platform until release. Actually I still haven’t had a chance to get back into it, but I will. Joe Stegman of Microsoft has posted the first of what I’m sure will be many breaking changes for Silverlight.…