June 2007 - Posts

posted Friday, June 29, 2007 5:19 AM by martin :: 5 Comments

Virtual Earth Map in a SharePoint WebPart

I've posted some sample code here that shows how to display a VE map inside a WSS3 WebPart. There are a few interesting challenges that I had to overcome to make this work, and given time there are more challenges that could usefully be addressed.  Read More

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posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:47 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

C#3 Linq Demo Source Code

Yesterday I did a short talk on C#3 and LINQ.  I've packaged up the source code that I used, and you can download it here.  I don't know how useful the code is without me talking alongside it (maybe more useful) so I'll try to give some pointers Read More

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posted Friday, June 22, 2007 3:18 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

New MSDN Nugget on SharePoint Web Parts

I just published a Nugget that gives an introduction to building Web Parts for WSS 3, and then deploying your web part to a SharePoint server.  Again, if you're not aware of the MSDN Nuggets, see the full set here. Building and Deploying a Web Part Read More

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posted Friday, June 22, 2007 2:33 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

New Virtual Earth Nuggets on MSDN

I've just posted a couple of MSDN Nuggets that show how to use the Virtual Earth map control.  If you don't know what the Nuggets are, then you should take a look here.  There are many more besides mine... Introduction to the Virtual Earth Map Read More
posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:13 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Mix:UK 07

Calling all Web Designers and Developers in the UK... You probably saw all the excitement around the announcements we made at MIX07 in Las Vegas a while back.  The good news is you'll be able to get all the latest information, from the horse's mouth, Read More
posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:11 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Thank you DotNetDevNet

This is a word of thanks to the good people at the .NET Developer Network, who turned up to see me speak last night.  DotNetDevNet is a free-to-join user group that meets monthly in the Bristol area of the UK, focusing on issues surrounding Read More
posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:21 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Putting Code in my Blog Posts

Until recently, I've always used the excellent Copy Source as HTML add-in for Visual Studio 2005 to get bits of code in HTML form that I can embed in my blog posts.  Recently however, I moved to using Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 (yeah, it's ok, Read More
posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:42 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Roadshow 2007 Epilogue

Last Monday we did the final re-run of the 2007 MSDN Roadshow.  Mike summarised the content quite nicely, and you can get all the resources at http://www.roadshowresources.com. My Windows Live session was a little different for the last re-run than Read More
posted Monday, June 11, 2007 6:27 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

WCF and CardSpace with Managed Cards

There are a few articles out there on the web that discuss how to use Windows CardSpace for sign-on when invoking a WCF service, such as this one.  Oddly they all seem to give examples that work with Personal Cards (that is, with self-issued security Read More
posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:46 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 7

Please see previous posts here, here, here, here, and here.  You can download the full code from here. Ok, this is the last post in this series, I promise.  All that remains is to implement a Receiver (that's a WSS server-side event handler) Read More
posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:59 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 6

Please see previous posts here, here, here, and here.  You can download the full code from here. If you've been following along, you'll know that by now we have a list template for an "Excel Cell-Promoting Library", and we have a custom action in Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:58 AM by martin :: 2 Comments

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 5

Please see previous posts here, here, and here.  You can download the full code from here. At this point a site admin can create a new document library of a type that I called the "Excel Cell Promoting Library".  I now want to allow users of Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:28 AM by martin :: 3 Comments

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 4

Please see previous posts here and here, and you can download the full code from here. In this post I'll talk about how I build a list template, with which I could associate my new functionality.  A list template in WSS3 defines some properties that Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:24 AM by martin :: 4 Comments

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 3

Please see previous post here, and you can download the full code from here. Here's a picture of the end result (click for larger version)...   In my case, I've configured my list to pull two cells out of uploaded workbooks, and push those two values Read More
posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:58 AM by martin :: 4 Comments

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 2

For a more ambitious exploration of what's possible when using WSS features, I set myself a challenge to implement something that might be useful.  I wanted to implement SharePoint document libraries which, when I upload an Excel 2007 workbook, would Read More