Mads Nissen

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

madsn — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Arctic SharePoint Challenge 2011 Announced!

madsn — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:36:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Google GMail routes mail not adressed for gmail to GMail

madsn — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Display a PowerPoint deck in SharePoint 2010 using Office Web Apps

madsn — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Location-Based Metadata #sp2010plaintalk

madsn — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

The "Yesterdays Party" Code Smell

madsn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:06:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

madsn — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Puzzlepart Product Boxing Rocks

madsn — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Puzzlepart Team Complete

madsn — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:34:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Efficient Workflow Architectures at Software 2010 in Oslo

madsn — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:53:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Can Subversion do shelving? And should you really?

madsn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

madsn — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:30:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Setting up the Lenovo Telenor Broadband Connection on Windows 7

madsn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:36:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

madsn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

madsn — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)