December 2006 - Posts

posted Friday, December 22, 2006 11:21 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

SharePoint 2007 Records Management

When you create a site based on the Records Center site template, the site contains a record routing list with a default "catch-all" routing item, and a document library to hold any documents being sent to the Records Center.  You can send documents Read More
posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 6:10 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Restart & Recovery Sample

Windows Vista introduced new APIs to allow applications to register themselves for automatic restart, if they fail in some way.  In addition, you can ask the OS to invoke a specific callback inside the application, just before the process is killed.  Read More
posted Monday, December 18, 2006 3:06 PM by martin :: (Comments Off)

PDC 2007

Look, they announced the 2007 PDC already.  Is this a record? It's a shame that it's in LA again, but to be honest it's the best developer conference by miles and it doesn't really matter where they put it.  It's way too soon to know whether Read More
posted Friday, December 15, 2006 2:02 PM by martin :: (Comments Off)

UK Developer Launch Event Full

Wow.  The Vista and Office launch event is full up, within 2 hours of being opened for registration.  Many thanks to those of you who registered. For those who didn't manage to register, don't worry. You can still take part online.  No Read More
posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:56 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch Tour

Immediately after the developer launch event (19th and 20th January, see here) a group of us will be taking to the road.  We hope to cover as much of the country as possible in 5 days, spreading the word to developers far and wide.  We need Read More
posted Monday, December 11, 2006 9:47 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Office & Vista UK Developer Launch

Registration is now open.  On 19th and 20th January, 2007, we will be holding a developer-focused launch event around Windows Vista and Office 2007.  Day 1 has a conventional presentation format, with two tracks (one Vista, one Office).  Read More
posted Monday, December 04, 2006 3:49 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Modifications for Simple STS sample to include Display Token

I've been playing with the simple STS sample from netfx3.com, which you can get here.  Installing the STS on my local box, everything works fine for me (on RTM bits).  The only slight wrinkle is that the sample STS, while it returns a working Read More