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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ASP.NET 2.0

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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Team System

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

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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Windows SharePoint Services

Windows Live Suite Released (x64 is also supported!)

November 7, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  You can install it here.

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Microsoft has committed to release Visual Studio 2008 by the end of this month!

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Read the official press release here Microsoft Commits to November Release Date for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Sweet! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008

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VS 2008

.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Microsoft has released the updated poster, now if only I knew someone with a really big printer 😉

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.NET

Building a SharePoint 2007 Web Part for WSS/MOSS

November 5, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I will be co-presenting a luncheon at the Ottawa .NET users group about Windows SharePoint Services v3 and one of my tasks for the presentation was to build a SharePoint Web Part. I have both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 on my computer and wasn’t sure which environment would be best suited for it but in […]

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