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CodeSmith 3.0
ASPInsider Eric J. Smith has kept busy over the past several months working on a major upgrade to his CodeSmith toolset and released version 3.0 on May 16. While you'll be happy to learn that version 2.6 will continue to be available for free, both versions of 3.0 (Standard and Professional) are now paid products. I think this is a great move for both Eric and developers by helping ensure continued development of the tools, and the prices remain a bargain. I've been on two projects now where we saved literally weeks of development time by customizing CodeSmith's out-of-box scripts to generate our Data Access Layer's stored procedures and C# object code.
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Toronto BizTalk User Group Launches Tuesday!
Rod Da Silva is launching a BizTalk User Group in Toronto on Tuesday night. Rod is the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Practice Lead here at Eidenai Innovations, and his skill and experience are part of the reason I decided to come work at Eidenai. This should be a great group, come check it out.
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Wanted: InfoPath / SharePoint Developers in Toronto
If you're in the GTA and have hands-on with either (InfoPath && ASP.NET && Web Services) || ((SharePoint && ASP.NET && (Webparts && SharePoint API || Customization)), contact me.
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Publish an InfoPath Form to a Website
A piece of a current project is to build an InfoPath form that will be published to a website rather than a SharePoint library. The developer on the project configured NTFS and the Web Application to post to the folder, and made sure Front Page Server Extensions (FPSE) were enabled. But, he still couldn't publish. I figured it was a WebDAV thing since this is now the "preferred" way to publish over HTTP and sure enough, this led to the solution. I found a great article on enabling WebDAV for IIS, now we're off.
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SharePoint Applications
Today while building out some demo sites for Eidenai I went hunting for SharePoint Site Definitions and found that in the real world people happily still think in terms of scenarios rather than execution.
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Eli Robillard: SharePoint Practice Lead, Eidenai Innovations
I'm pleased to announce that I've started into a new role as SharePoint Practice Lead with a company called Eidenai Innovations. Eidenai is a Microsoft Certified Gold, Managed, and Integration Partner and in 2003 became Microsoft Canada's #2 subcontracted development partner. The team here is absolutely first class. Right back to our initial meetings it was clear that this is a company with strong vision and unmatched skills, and it's an honour to be in their ranks.
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Toronto SharePoint User Group Meeting: Wednesday Night
The next TSPUG meeting is tomorrow at 6:00pm, and I'm really looking forward to this one. Michael Herman of Parallelspace will be presenting the most common pain points and solutions for SharePoint. Michael is one of the few people -- not just in Canada but anywhere -- with knowledge this deep and I'm sure it will be a great experience.
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Resources for coding against SharePoint's Search API
It's a common scenario to want to use the great Search and Index engines from SharePoint Portal server in other .NET applications, or to customise results for a particular purpose. Some of these are pretty hard to find, so I thought I'd organize them in one place.Microsoft® SharePoint™ Portal Server: Advanced Technologies for Information Search and RetrievalSharePoint 2003 Object Models and SearchUsing SharePoint search in an ASP.NET application with noise filteringUsing SharePoint Portal Server to Index Your Custom ApplicationIntegrating Microsoft SharePoint Portal Search into Microsoft Content Management Server 2002