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Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for HTC TyTN (Rogers)

November 19, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 7 Comments

I have been eagerly awaiting the WM6 upgrade for the HTC TyTN from Rogers. When I registered the phone on HTC’s web site it said the WM6 upgrade was available but for some reason not for this particular model from Rogers. The weeks went by and I got more impatient and so yesterday I was […]

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite has been released on MSDN

November 19, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

I just read on Martin Woodward’s blog that it has been released on MSDN. I am sure the other editions and Team Foundation Server will appear soon. Congratulations to both Microsoft and the Visual Studio Team! Enjoy! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008

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ASP.NET 2.0 ViewState and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

November 16, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

You may have some pages which are being penalized by certain search engines due to the size of the viewstate embedded in the page. You can move the viewstate into the session easily by overriding the following methods: void SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium(object viewstate) object LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium() I recommend you override these methods in a base page class of […]

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ASP.NET 2.0 Encrypted Connection String and IIS 6.0

November 16, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

I am sure some of you have tried encrypting your connection strings in ASP.NET 2.0 and when you tested it locally it all worked fine, if you did this on the server your application wouldn’t be able to read the connection string(s). You must perform an extra step since your application is probably running in […]

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Visual Studio Team Build

November 12, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

One question I was asked today after my SharePoint presentation was related to Team Build. The question was how do I run a specific task (i.e. build documentation) in my build? You need to modify the TFSBuild.proj file to add your custom task In Source Control Explorer in your project select TeamBuildTypes, right click it […]

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SharePoint Presentation

November 12, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Thanks to all of you who attended the presentation given me and Dominic Plouffe on Windows SharePoint Services v3. Here are the links to the software and blogs mentioned during our PowerPoint presentation. Links: VSeWSS v 1.0 VSeWSS v 1.1 CTP MSDN Minimal Master Page Heather Solomon’s Base Master Page for MOSS SharePoint Server […]

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Windows SharePoint Services

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

November 10, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

The other day I downloaded and installed MSS 2008 on one of our Windows 2003 Server x64 development servers. I immediately picked a couple of file shares and a web site as sample content sources for the server to crawl, it only took a few minutes to setup and when it was finished crawling my […]

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Talking about A Technical Overview of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)

November 7, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Quote A Technical Overview of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2) Hosted by: Dominic Plouffe and Wesley MacDonald Date and time: November 12, 2007 at 12:00 PM Location name: 100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada View this event on Windows Live

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SharePoint Development – Turn off those friendly errors

November 7, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

The error page displayed while you are doing development on SharePoint has a lot to be desired, while it is perfect for production it just doesn’t;t give you any information to go on while you are knee deep in development. Open your SharePoint site’s web.config Find the <SafeMode> Element and change value of the CallStack […]

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