August 2004 - Posts

26 August 2004
JavaScript Seralizer enables Clemens summer project
A bit more than a week ago my colleague Anders Norås published an article on a JavaScript XmlSerializer that he has been working on for quite a while. The article got quite an amount of attention after Dare Osabanjo referenced Anders on the MSDN feed. Internally we've been discussing the applicability... Read More...
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19 August 2004
Doing simple adjustments to the Sharepoint Portal Area pages
Working your way through the Sharepoint css classes is not fun. I just spent several hours trying to accomplish the following: Change portal logo Change background color behind the logo to dark blue Change color of the navigation bar and search bar to light blue (no gradient) Change gradient color in... Read More...
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10 August 2004
More on MSCRM Row size limitations..
Michaeljon addresses the problem , but the message is pretty much "wait for the next release". We're leaning towards Option 3 in my previous post and possibly getting rid of those japanese yomi fields on the Contact entity that are sucking up 750 spaces of nvarchar (1500 bytes!). Read More...
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05 August 2004
Accessing Custom Site Templates through the Sharepoint API
Using custom site templates in Sharepoint is a really powerful feature. You can customize your WSS site through frontpage or the web UI and save the site as a template. By default the template is stored in the top-level site template gallery of the site you customized. This template can be exported as... Read More...
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03 August 2004
Register sites in Sharepoint Site Directory programmatically
As part of my ongoing quest to autogenerate sites I need to register created sites in the site directory in code. The following would apply for any generated WSS site or other, potentially external, source. When using the regular "Create Site" link from the Site Directory area you are actually passed... Read More...
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02 August 2004
OWA + Sharepoint = true
Well, I've been writing about this previously , but I felt an need to describe my simplistic final solution for a couple of customers. The only obvious problem in using OWA and the standard Page Viewer Webpart to display Exchange content in Sharepoint is the double authentication. By default users have... Read More...
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02 August 2004
MS CRM Row Size Limit on Customizations
Oh grief! My first major disappointment with MS CRM was the "web services" which prove to be soap over http. Today we started customizing the entities, which was another seemingly great feature of MS CRM. The concept of using a Schema Manager to maintain custom fields in the datastore is very nice but... Read More...
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