June 2004 - Posts

30 June 2004
Generate WSS Sitetree structures? MS Expert says no at TechEd..
Well, actually not NO but: I was just over at the "Ask the Experts" stand talking to the Sharepoint guys from Microsoft Netherlands. I was describing a scenario where I was planning to generate a WSS site tree structures based on MS CRM Account, Opportunity and Contract entities. My reasoning for creating... Read More...
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30 June 2004
A crowded unit testing BoF
This mornings BoF lead by James Newkirk was truly crowded and goes to prove that .NET developers are taking testing seriously. Considering the level of participation in the discussions there might actually have been too many participants as there were no real discussions, more statements regarding to... Read More...
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28 June 2004
Sharepoint Portal Architecture and autogenerating WSS site forests
I've been checking out the Sharepoint content on this years teched, and some of the hands-on labs might be somewhat interesting. My major interest regarding sharepoint these days, however, is how to design the Portal architecture. How do you efficiently design the relationship between SPS and WSS and... Read More...
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28 June 2004
Booting @ Teched - PRE001 Biztalk
Settled on the premises and online with just a minor hassle I'm well into the pre-conf session on BizTalk: PRE001 Building an End-to-End Integration Infrastructure with BizTalk Server 2004 Eric Van Bever walks through BizTalk functionality talking demonstrating the various features. When he talks about... Read More...
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21 June 2004
Visual Source Safe time and CruiseControl builds
Ever wondered why some developers triggers builds slightly faster than others when checkin into a CruiseControl.NET monitored Visual SourceSafe database? Check the local time on the developers machine. VSS doesn't care to use local buildserver timestamps. Just one more quirk to add to the VSS cons list... Read More...
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17 June 2004
Microsoft CRM Blogs
A couple of weeks ago I took the Microsoft CRM Customization Certification, probably as the first in Norway. Internally we've been starting up a dog-fooding project and today I started working with a client that are implementing Microsoft CRM in the current project. I wanted to read up on the development... Read More...
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17 June 2004
Took me 3 hours to get the agenda right..
Took me just about the entire evening browsing through all the sessions on the event site. I do feel that the search "tool" for the sessions could have been better. Simply a shopping cart-ish thing would have helped, or maybe a couple of collapse buttons (per day maybe). The calendar schedule however... Read More...
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09 June 2004
The GAC, the WebApp, and the _layouts folder
Sometimes I tend to subconciously embark on a dual exploration. Much like trying to kite-surf for the first time, while reading a book of Salman Rushdie in urdu. You'll get there eventually, but the combined tasks will together take a lot more time. Today I tried to make my Sharepoint site generator... Read More...
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08 June 2004
New version of CruiseControl.NET
Took me a week to notice, but CruiseControl.NET 0.6.1 is now released. New features include auto-get of VSS source code (man that took me a while to realize was missing from the last release), support for ClearCase plus support for a light-weight integration with devenv (VS.NET) to avoid using NAnt for... Read More...
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03 June 2004
Using an XmlPublisher in the ExceptionManagement ApplicationBlock
I've been using the Microsoft ExceptionManagement ApplicationBlock and I spent some time creating a nice ExceptionXmlPublisher because the one described in the docs has some flaws. Using the xml publisher removes the need to run the EventLog installer to be able to create the eventlog. Having the exceptions... Read More...
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