by Melyssa Bell
September 9, 2009
If you're working with CAML, it's good to have available a list of fields, their internal field names, and their data types. I wrote a simple Web part that accepts the display name of a list and returns this information, along with whether or not each field is required or indexed. The code for the W...
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by Melyssa Bell
June 29, 2009
The 2008 Professional Developers Conference introduced several new features that can be expected with the release of Windows 7, one of which is the new support for writing language-aware applications. The presenters of one session pointed out why globalization really matters: over 90% of the world p...
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by Melyssa Bell
June 8, 2009
Themes. Windows 7 has approached personalization of desktops from a different angle. Users have more control over the look and feel of their desktop with the use of Themes. The control panel for the Themes screen displays available themes in a graphical list, organized by user-created themes, online...
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by Melyssa Bell
June 5, 2009
If you would like to develop applications that access new Windows 7 features, you will want to download the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. With this code pack (version 0.85, as of this post), you will find support for the following features:
Common file dialogs
Direct3D 11....
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by Melyssa Bell
May 21, 2009
I recently watched a session taken from the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in which they describe the various ways developers can integrate touch into their applications. One of the great things about Windows 7 is the out-of-the-box support it provides for legacy applications that do not in...
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by Melyssa Bell
March 2, 2009
Suppose that, during the deletion of an item in List A, you want to first check to see if some condition holds true in List B, and if so, perform some action on List B before actually deleting the item in List A. Normally, workflows created in SharePoint Designer would come in very handy here, but u...
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by Melyssa Bell
September 25, 2008
After a new installation or an upgrade on a MOSS server, you may start receiving a million DCOM errors in your System event logs. Thankfully, these are very easy to clean out. The error will look something like this:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permissi...
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by Melyssa Bell
September 18, 2008
1. Open Visual Studio 2005 and create a new Web Part project.
2. Add the following two using statements to the .cs file:
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Net;
3. Add the following using statement to the AssemblyInfo.cs file:
using System...
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by Melyssa Bell
September 18, 2008
There are several posts on this out there already, but I thought I’d add mine as well, just to have it down. If you have ForeFront managing your virus scanning for your SharePoint environment, then you may at some point receive some close resemblance of the following error when you navigate to...
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by Melyssa Bell
September 18, 2008
One way to get “home grown” .Net development in a SharePoint site is to use custom user controls (.ascx). Following are the general steps involved with making user controls function on a SharePoint site:
1. Start a new Web Site in Visual Studio.
2. Add a new user co...
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