When using InfoPath for editing data in you webapplications you run into a couple of tricky situations when beeing used to plain webdevelopment. One of these scenarios is when you want your webpage to refresh after having edited a record in some datasource with InfoPath. Typically you've implemented...

This week has been all about the pain of client deployment of our VSTO solution. I've written a summary which I hope will be the start of the complete solution for idiot-proof installs of Outlook plugins. I'm not quite there yet but I feel I'm pretty close. Read it here! Input and feedback is very welcome...

Just installed Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and reinstalled Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Outlook on top to continue working on my Outlook Add-in. When trying to cast a MailItem object i recieved the following error: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject'...

This summer I got the opportunity to demo a VSTO Outlook plugin at TechEd in Amsterdam. The demo was done on a prototype made as a proof-of-concept for a customer in the preceeding weeks (not actually the night before the demo:-). The prototype was accepted and development for production was planned...

Last friday I got the email. I have been given the honor of the Most Valuable Professional title/award/membership. Today my profile was made public on the MVP site, and I attended the MVP lunch where MVP program manager Sean O'Driscoll gave a good overview of the program. I'm very pleased and excited...

Objectware AS has participated in the alpha and beta program for the Visual Studio Tools for Office for Outlook. I figured that this beta is something a lot of people wants to have a look at in the calm times of summer, and started googling to dig up som tutorials, introductions and howtos on more advanced...

When a customer suddenly reports memoryusage on their Sharepoint Server of 300mb increase an hour you tend to show up pretty quick. This happened yesterday. After having installed a range of updates and patches to their server software, something in the w3wp process caused extensive memoryusage, eventually...

In my sessions on smart clients the past weeks the ClickOnce seems to be the topic that generates the most questions. I'll try to clarify some of the issues here. Application Permissions and ClickOnce One of the main concerns people have is how a user knows what rights an application gets when it is...

I've created a InfoPath form designed to be highly movable. Somewhat against my own principles these forms have more than a few dataconnections and I wanted the reconfiguration effort to be minimal, preferrably zero, when the form was moved from one Sharepoint site to the next. It proved quite difficult...

I'm currently talking about Smart Clients around Norway and I've been focusing on the architectural aspects of Smart Client technology. Recently Clemens posted about much the same topic . For a long time Service Oriented Architecture has been sold as the final silver bullet by vendors and evangelists...