Years ago (5 years ago actually), I created a web part for Sharepoint that allowed you to display data from a SQL Server database as a simple table in Sharepoint. Since that time, Sharepoint Designer has added the dataview web part, which gives you much more control over connecting to and formatting data from external [...]
Mar
17
2009
17
2009
Mar
10
2009
10
2009
Plugin upgrade Failed in WordPress Using IIS 7
Since I have been running WordPress on IIS 7, I have been unable to use the WordPress integrated Plugin update features. When I am in plugin manager, and click on the link that says Upgrade Automatically, I get the following error:
Upgrade Plugin
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/download-monitor.2.2.3.zip
Unpacking the update
Removing the old version of the plugin
Could not remove [...]
Mar
9
2009
9
2009
Rounded Corners in Sharepoint Webpart Title Bar Using JQuery
Goal
A web part title bar with scripted rounded corners that can be displayed with or without a border.
Background
I wanted to create Sharepoint web part title bars with curved corners, and my search of the web led me to a couple of really good articles that got me started. Heather Solomon’s Post on Branding Sharepoint discusses [...]
Mar
5
2009
5
2009
Scott Hanselman – Ten Awesome Things I Remember About Computers
What a great piece of nostalgia. Scott Hanselman recounts Ten Awesome Things he remembers about computers. To this list I would like to add the first computer I actually owned, the ADAM. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world (it came with a printer).
And I love the mention of Compute magazine. Code samples [...]
Mar
5
2009
5
2009
Sharepoint Designer Dataview Webpart Errors
I recently spent several days trying to solve a Sharepoint / Sharepoint Designer problem and thought I would share the solution here.
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Symptom 1
A web part page with a dataview web part that connected to a SQL Server datasource was giving the following error message and stack trace:
Server Error in ‘/’ Application
The type is not registered [...]
Jul
28
2008
28
2008
Migrating to Wordpress
With all of the new support for php in Windows Server 2008, I had to try Wordpress as my blog engine. I’ve used dasBlog for years now and I have been mostly happy with it, but the lack of themes for it has always bothered me. If I’m inspired by seeing my page, then I’m [...]
Jan
28
2008
28
2008
Make your job more difficult by using My Documents Redirection and Offline Caching – Part 1
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Maybe later I will write an introduction to that title, but for now, just know that
I am in charge of a corporate network that has been using My Documents redirection
in combination with Offline Caching for many, many years. I am convinced the cost
overhead involved with this technology far outweighs and productivity gains that we
get. Don’t [...]
Dec
28
2006
28
2006
OneNote 2007 and Sharepoint 2007
I have a desktop computer and laptop computer, and I’ve been getting back into OneNote
lately. This time around I wanted one copy of my Notebook I could access from my laptop
at home or from the desktop at the office, so I decided to put the entire notebook
in Sharepoint.
I created the notebook on the My Site [...]
Jul
12
2006
12
2006
Excel Web Services and Query Tables
FYI, by design you cannot publish an Excel workbook that is linked to a sql table
in Excel Web Services for Sharepoint 2007. You can, however, publish an Excel
workbook that is linked to a sql analysis services cube.
Jun
14
2006
14
2006
Location of Registry Files in Windows
I had a need today to find out what the value for a certain registry key was in the
past. To do this, I needed to restore the actual registry file as it looked it before
(to a different location of course).
In Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 the system registry resides in the following files:
NTUSER.DAT. – this file contains the HKEY_CURRENT_USER [...]