Mads Nissen

Handling an orphaned SPPersistedObject when working with e.g. SPJobDefinition or SPDiagnosticsServiceBase

2011-08-08T07:50:00Z

I've been working with improving our Puzzlepart Framework components for simplifying development of SharePoint Timer Jobs lately, in relation to our upcoming release of " Did - The calendar is the timesheet " business app for SharePoint, and (as usual when digging deep into SharePoint) I ran into some problems with our beloved platform that needed resolution:-) If you're about to work with any type of SPPersistedObject I recommend you to first read through Charlie Hollands " The skinny on SPPersistedObject...(read more)

Arctic SharePoint Challenge 2011 Announced!

2011-01-14T14:36:00Z

Me and the guys at Puzzlepart have been working with some of our friends at NSPUG (Computas, Steria and Microsoft to be specific) for the past months in planning a different SharePoint event up here in the cold north. It's scheduled adjacent to the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London in case some of our international friends wants to join in. We're aiming to throw one hell of a hands-on event with a highly competitive factor for those of you with a slightly higher interest for the SharePoint...(read more)

Google GMail routes mail not adressed for gmail to GMail

2010-09-15T18:17:00Z

I need to get this out of my system: Google finds it appropriate to redirect email addressed to my company address (NOT Gmail) to my GMail account based on me using that address as a password recovery address in my GMail account. When I remove this recovery address. They keep remembering. Details and how Google states that they are doing no evil here . They also think its appropriate to do the same thing with email flowing through Google Apps where I'm a member of a mailing list - again registered...(read more)

Display a PowerPoint deck in SharePoint 2010 using Office Web Apps

2010-09-09T06:43:00Z

During a SharePoint 2010 training class i was conducting this week we were implementing a case originally created for MOSS 2007, where the author of the case had added a requirement to show a PowerPoint deck in a SharePoint page. This threw me a bit off, as I couldn't remember seeing any direct functionality for this. I turned out that the author had intended the students to research 3rd party solutions for this. I started thinking about Office Web Apps. "Where are the built in Office Web Apps webparts...(read more)

Location-Based Metadata #sp2010plaintalk

2010-08-29T10:32:00Z

This is the first post in a series of SharePoint 2010 plaintalk (#sp2010plaintalk) aimed at SharePoint professionals who are exploring features of the platform, typically to do feasibility assessments for applying platform features in projects. With every new version of the platform I tend to spend a lot of time digging through the marketing and technical content of the new features to understand what a new feature *really* does. We'll start out with a small one on Location-Based Metadata (sounds...(read more)

The "Yesterdays Party" Code Smell

2010-06-16T05:06:00Z

Discussions are going strong here at the Puzzlepart code camp in Colombo and we're noticing things about the way we work all the time. Commonly our discussions happens on video when the team is distributed, but for these weeks we're all onsite and we're really taking advantage of that. Yesterday the team got into a YAGNI discussion while our art director Christian was designing some of the wireframes for one of our upcoming products . Chris had added a UI element that was not really in the sprint...(read more)

Creating Office add-ins with VSTO with Add-in Express

2010-05-20T10:32:00Z

Back in 2005 I wrote several posts addressing challenges related to building and packaging Office add-ins with VSTO. We managed to complete a few very cool add-ins for customers, but I have to admit that we did have our share of problems. There are still developers out there who are faced with the same challenges that contact me regarding this topic. Unfortunately some of the related content for my posts are lost, and the original sourcecode is not available for the public (customer property). Since...(read more)

Puzzlepart Product Boxing Rocks

2010-05-07T00:11:00Z

I had a few main drivers for starting the Puzzlepart project in the first place. First; working with great people, secondly having fun at work following the team principles.Third; always challenge with new ways of work. One of the main concepts that has evolved in our team is the concept of "tangible". Anything and everything HAS to be tangible and touchable and we thrive for this in everything that we do. The past two days of workshopping is a great example of this. Andreas had experienced good...(read more)

Puzzlepart Team Complete

2010-05-06T22:34:00Z

This monday, Andreas Eide joined our team as the 9th key player in our business mission. Andreas joins us from TANDBERG where he has spent the past years managing the R&D of video collaboration solutions used by customers no less important than the White House. Andreas concluded the establishment of the Puzzlepart core team, and throughout the past few months concrete plans have started to emerge, pinpointing the direction to realizing real Enterprise 2.0 applications for the Microsoft SharePoint...(read more)

Efficient Workflow Architectures at Software 2010 in Oslo

2010-02-10T17:53:00Z

Tomorrow I'm doing a session at the Software 2010 conference arranged by Den Norske Dataforening (DND) in Oslo. The topic is on realizing the potential of an efficient workflow architecture with todays enterprise software tools & technologies. A lot of the content and reflections are based on my previous job as a consultant working with enterprise software solutions and solution architectures based on the Microsoft Platform. It's also largely inspired by one of last years meetings in IASA Norway...(read more)

Can Subversion do shelving? And should you really?

2009-09-10T07:05:00Z

This morning Chatura, one of the Puzzlepart core developers, asked me how we should approach the need for "shelving" with our Subversion repositories. Chatura has extensive experience with TFS and wants be able to use the powerful tools of TFS on our development platform too. Shelving is a Team Foundation Server term describing ”temporary” commits. Svn doesn’t put a name on this, but encourages teams to establish their own strategy for shelving. In my opinion this is a good thing because you'll need...(read more)

Upgrading Forefront TMG to Beta 3 - Modify the backup/export xml to enable import

2009-09-07T11:30:00Z

For those of you who had installed a previous beta of Forefront TMG (yes, it's the new name for ISA Server) you might have had the pleasure of experiencing your TMG server going down after the 180+7 days grace period with the message "the evaluation period has expired" in the eventlog. It's really hard to figure out the Forefront TMG version history, but currently (September 09) the latest one I've found is the Beta 3 . The upgrade path is based on backup (export) and restore (import) of your settings...(read more)

Setting up the Lenovo Telenor Broadband Connection on Windows 7

2009-06-30T15:36:00Z

I'm on Flesland right now and decided to get the free trial for the Telenor Turbo 3G for Lenovo a go. After applying here Telenor will instruct you to use Thinkvantage Access Connections to get online but this won't work with Windows 7 (or it might be the 64x version). However all you need to do is to set up a new dial up connection in windows. Use *99# as phone number and the telephone number associated with the SIM card ( screenshot ) for as username and password. Connect and you're ready and blogging...(read more)

401 errors when accessing Sharepoint or IIS locally from Windows 2008 Server

2009-06-18T18:02:00Z

Phui.. after months of problems logging into weblogs.asp.net I finally got some help and I'm back in:) Most experienced web developers and IT pros have encountered the good ole' DisableLoopbackCheck problem when accessing websites from the local machine (when they work when accessing them externally). Today I had to take an extra spin around the block when setting up a Sharepoint site on a Windows 2008 server with IIS 7 with host headers. From my experience with Windows 2003 the only thing you needed...(read more)

"Operation could destabilize the runtime" error with ASP.NET Medium Trust level in Cassini on Vista

2009-05-07T15:48:00Z

Just because this apparently is not noted anywhere within googles reach I wanted to make a note of this for the potentially frustrated: If you're trying to run an ASP.NET app under medium trust on Vista with UAC enabled you'll probably see this exception: System.Security.VerificationException: Operation could destabilize the runtime. Steps to reproduce: Create blank ASP.NET web application project. Clear web.config of anything but "<trust level="Medium" />". Do "View in Browser" on Default...(read more)