After installing Visual Studio 2010, I was surprised to see no support for VSS 2005 integration. After some googling it seems like you need to install a hotfix for VSS integration. Here is the link: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB976375/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3479 After installing this, when I opened the project (from the working folder) I did not see any sort of VSS integration. I had to do two more steps to make it work. I had to change my Source Control from TFS to Sourcesafe. You can do this by going to Tools à Options ...<< MORE >>

After a long long time (almost 7 years) I get the opportunity to work with UNIX... actually it is Linux... Last time I used UNIX it was for my independent study project in my school! Setting up a Linux environment to play with was so easy! I downloaded Vm Player Got the Fedora image from their web site. Created a virtual machine with the ISO image Overall the entire process took me just about 15 minutes!! (8 minutes for the download) Now I just have to install Oracle, ...<< MORE >>

Apart from having to work on Linux, oracle, JBoss and java I decided that it would be a great(most of my colleagues think it is crazy!) idea for me to also learn the latest in the Microsoft technology stack(Silverlight!)So I am currently in the process of installing all the components from msdn J Also planning to get these 3 books Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 I am ...<< MORE >>

On my recent project we were using ItemAdded event to send custom emails to Tasks assigned by a SharePoint workflow. One requirement was the ability to reassign the Task if required. To do this I had to Check the "Assigned To" property and then reassign if required.. Having had trouble with beforeProperties and afterProperties I googled for it and came across this wonderful link: http://www.synergyonline.com/blog/blog-moss/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=25 definitely a good read that will save anyone a lot of pain J HTH, Hari ...<< MORE >>

It is possible to write to a SharePoint List using SharePoint web Services. This is very useful in scenarios where you might want to integrate 3 party data into your portal (through a scheduled task) and when you do not have access to running scripts on the SharePoint server itself [thus not allowing you to make use of the SharePoint Object model). I am using VS 2008 and .Net 3.5 SP1. The reason I am mentioning the environment is because of the different ways I had to configure my web service reference (as opposed to VS 2005 ...<< MORE >>

In the project I was working on right now, I had to get a User field from a SharePoint User colum. The value is stored as a lookup column and in order to get it as a SPUSER I had to write the following utility method public static SPUser GetUser(string columnValue, SPField userField) { SPFieldUser field = (SPFieldUser)userField; SPFieldUserValue fieldValue = (SPFieldUserValue)field.GetFieldValue(columnValue); return ...<< MORE >>

using the .Net 3.5 Active Directory Libraries - Retrieving more than 1000 users - Last Login value << MORE >>

So if you have been developing or using SharePoint you have definitely come across these terms. The best way I have come up with to understand them is to compare them to a Condo Complex (or Flats as known in India J) Web Application An empty piece of land is the Web Application. You have a placeholder for building something, but as such it is pretty much empty. This is true in case of a SharePoint web Application. When you create a web application using Central Administration, *unless* you create a Site Collection, you can't access it. If ...<< MORE >>

After hearing a lot of talk about "Cloud Computing" and also about "Sales Force" I decided to look more into SalesForce this weekend. After my brief experience with salesforce.com, though a very interesting and intriguing one, I decided to blog about it in a series of Posts as I am quite positive that I will be playing around with it for the next 2-3 weeks. So my first step was to look at http://www.SalesForce.com. And there was a lot of information there and when I mean lots, I literally mean tones and tones of information. So there was cloud ...<< MORE >>

Microsoft decided to change the location of gacutil when you install vs2008! The new location is : C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin I have now added this to the "Path" environment variable so that I can use it from any command prompt.. HTH Hari ...<< MORE >>