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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 -
CDI Education's Technology Briefing Tour: May 3 to 13
Next Tuesday I'm off on a two week, nine city tour of Canada. CDI Education is hosting these technology briefings, and the platforms we'll cover are ASP.NET, SharePoint, and SQL Server. I will be presenting the first two and Bruce Davidson will be presenting SQL Server in the Western provinces.
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Toronto SharePoint User Group: Meeting One
I just returned from the first TSPUG meeting and it was a blast! Thanks to Heather, Kaylie, Martin and everyone else at CDI Education who put in extra-long days to coordinate registration, arrange the fine catered food, and generally help it to all run smooth beyond expectations.
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Google Maps, now with Satellite
Google Maps just keep getting better. First the best map UI around, and now the most amazing satellite maps around. Go get directions to somewhere, click the numbers representing the turns on the right side, and fall in love.
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Optimal CDEx Settings
I couldn't find a review, comparison or guide for CDEx settings when using the Lame encoder so I did some playing around today. Before today I just set CDEx to a bitrate of 192 and forgot about it. Now I'll be going back and re-ripping a bunch of disks that I actually like to hear, because I expect my MP3s will be around longer than a bunch of my CDs and they're a whole lot handier.
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ASP.NET Page Lifecycle
The page execution cycle can be a difficult thing to master. Most issues with an event not firing or form data being lost during postback can usually be solved by better understanding the lifecycle. I've constructed a few targeted searches to help out.