You can now officially use Hyper-V in a production environment, here is the link to the download to update the Role. Here are the downloads for the Remote Administration Tools: Windows Server 2008 (x32) Windows Vista (x32) Windows Vista (x64) Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008,Hyper-V
Continue readingForms Authentication and Read/Anonymous Access
I had created a .ascx control as a footer for a SharePoint MasterPage which displayed the date the page was changed and it worked great. It was great until I created a user account (Forms Based Authentication) with “Read” access and when the account logged in I would get an “Error: Access Denied”, this error […]
Continue readingGetting Public Key Token of Assembly Within Visual Studio
This is a great tip from Kirk Evan’s blog. I hated shelling out to the command prompt to do that, even though the new ctrl-shift right click “Copy as Path” in Windows Explorer made it easy to get the full path to the .dll to paste to the sn –Tp command. Technorati Tags: Microsoft […]
Continue readingCompile a Web User Control (.ascx) w/HTML and Code Behind into a Single Assembly
This is a demo I did during my SharePoint 2007 presentation at the Ottawa Federal User’s Group June 17th. If you are looking for the slide deck you will find it here. There are a few things you’re going to need to get started: Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects Windows SDK for Windows Server […]
Continue readingLive Mesh has been updated!
I think the best change in this release is that UAC is no longer a requirement to run it. I have been using Mesh for quite a long time now and I must say “It Rocks”. I have the ability to share folders across many PCs and they stay in sync, I can remotely […]
Continue readingShipping Packages to Ogdensburg, New York
If you live in or around the Ottawa area you can save yourself some money and not ship your packages from the United States to Canada which is some cases can be quite costly. Ottawa is approximately 45 minutes from upstate New York and The UPS Store in Ogdensburg. The UPS Store will accept your […]
Continue readingEnter the Coolest Team System Gadget Contest…
Mike Azocar a fellow Team System MVP has just announced the following contest: Have you created a useful gadget for Team System? Do you have one in mind? I am looking for the coolest community built tool for VSTS. It can be something for TFS, for Visual Studio, or something that is stand alone. […]
Continue readingInstall the Reporting Services Web Part
The WSS Site templates included with Team Foundation Server do not use the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Web Part. Here is how you can install it into WSS so you can use it on your site. C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>STSADM.EXE -o addwppack -filename "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Reporting Services\SharePoint\RSWebParts.cab" -globalinstall Operation completed successfully. […]
Continue readingInstall a Custom Site Template for Team Foundation Server
Add Template C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>stsadm -o addtemplate -filename C:\tfs\XXX-VSTFS\XXXCMMI.stp -title VSTS_XXX_CMMI Operation completed successfully. IIS must be restarted before this change will take effect. To restart IIS, opena command prompt window and type iisreset. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>iisreset Attempting stop…Internet services successfully stoppedAttempting start…Internet services successfully restarted List Templates […]
Continue readingUpdated Release of Sandcastle available
Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. You must uninstall any previous version of Sandcastle before you install this version. If you need a sample check out this post from the Sandcastle team blog. Required Software: Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0, available here […]
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