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Another Sharepoint Web Services rant : untyped data vs. incompletely typed data
Working with the Web Services in WSSv2 and v3 is an exercise in sheer frustration. I've written before about serious and glaring omissions in the Web Services API that Sharepoint exposes, but it's … more
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Return of the GC Hole: Another one from the C++/CLI trenches
A few days ago I wrote of a GC hole I accidently created in my C++/CLI code (with thanks to commenter Nish for the name of the phenomenon). I had the following code snippet set inside a private … more
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Windows Services, services.msc and the "This Service is marked for deletion" error.
In my current project, we have a windows service that we are developing and debugging, which involves a lot of installing/uninstalling the service. One common problem when uninstalling a service is … more
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Dynamically creating a Sharepoint Web-Service proxy instance
In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same … more
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Visual Studio help-launcher rant
Yes, I know I am far from the first to bemoan the atrocious behavior of Visual Studio 2005 when you press the F1 button, even accidently. The first time you do it - or other times, if it deems the … more