Eli Robillard's World of Blog.
Bligger. Blagger. Blogger.
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Business Data Catalog - Using the BDC Object Model
There are a few good MSDN entries with samples on using the Business Data Catalog, aka the ApplicationRegistry namespace.
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Two Toronto User Group Meetings: Jan 10 and 11, and CodeCamp 2007
It's a busy week indeed with two great user group meetings covering SharePoint in Toronto.
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Reauthentication and opening SharePoint documents on an extranet
People find it annoying that when accessing a SharePoint extranet, when you open a file stored in a Document Library, MS-Word will challenge you to enter your username and password again. It happens because the machine is outside the SharePoint domain, and your two desktop applications (Word and Explorer) are running as separate Applications, each of which needs to get its own Authentication token. Note that this doesn't happen over a VPN, which connects your machine as though it were sitting inside the domain.
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Web Design Futures Today: WPF/E
This is really cool. The latest bits to be released of the Windows Presentation Framework are for WPF/E. If you do ASP.Net, this is definitely something you want to catch up on before it's released. What is it? From Scott Guthrie's blog:
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Watch what you burn: A Vista experience
So I come in to the office today and Thomas has a great story for me.
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SharePoint Bits and the Launch. Oh, and Zune!
The MS-Word on the street is that the Office 2007 Professional (but not Pro+ or higher) bits are now available to MSDN subscribers. Thursday is still the day that the floodgates open for the other "smart client" SKUs and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 products.
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Great series on building a public website with MOSS 2007
Liam Cleary has a fantastic in-depth series running on rebuilding a corporate website with the new WCM features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We're talking deep practical dives into CSS, master pages, navigation, and content types. Highly recommended!
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Resolving the MOSS 2007 error: An item with the same key has already been added.
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Starting a Parallel Approval workflow returns an error and produces an item in the Event Log: -
What to do when an Administrator can't approve MOSS 2007 postings
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Object Reuse, David Chappell, and the Rule of the Least Common Denominator
David Chappell is speaking at next week's Toronto BizTalk User Group gathering. David is what you call an "industry luminary" with several well-read books and articles over the years, keynotes everywhere, and popular regular articles. His focus in recent times is on service-oriented architectures, principally Indigo, BPEL, and the Microsoft implementations, but the nice thing about David is that he's just as conversant with the J2EE / LAMP camp.