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Recently I got a question about a similar task that I had earlier last year and it involved a case where there were many (and I mean many) SharePoint 2007 sites and subsites containing webparts that had views showing certain SharePoint list information. However customer later realised that they needed the webpart views to contain the same view as the default view of the SharePoint list. So they asked if this can be done somehow automatically as a lot of time would be wasted updating each and every...
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I wrote a short piece on my incorrect assumptions about the workings of the var keyword in C#, have a read here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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First of all a very late Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog!!! So the New Year ( two thousand and shine ) has arrived promising many new things, especially on the SharePoint field. Above all we can look forward to a first glimpse of the new version of SharePoint (still dubbed 14) and a new Development Platform (Visual Studio 2010) for it. PDC 2008 which happened in Los Angeles last year has made many announcements which have both thrilled and concerned us (mostly thrilled...
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The one thing I love about the imminent arrival of the movers is the fact that everyone in our family, including even the hardened collectors, have to part with many precious value. One of the main headaches is the PAL versus NTSC , followed by the 220V versus 110V saga. Thanks to Bijan I am well on my way of resolving the latter, looking at the huge variety of voltage converters. If you are interested in electrical heaters, radios, computer equipment … we have a growing pile in our living...
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I have, for some time, tried to understand why … The adoption of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) has been slow with many of the development teams/companies who would/should benefit immensely from the technologies. Many adoptions are of short duration or end with problematic implementations adding little value to the solution stakeholders. Talking to the communities, customers and leads it has become apparent that in our environment (South-Africa)": Most teams...
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Schaub’s log … T-21: This is a post in a series of log entries concerned with our imminent move to Canada, Vancouver, where I will be joining the VSTS Rangers team. The day started after yet another night of hectic dreams and with a queasy stomach, which seems to be getting worse as we are approaching the departure date. Nerves … Today I worked (contracting at the moment) on a final technology proof of concept presentation, while my son was flying most of the day (very strong winds and low clouds...
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Robert recommended that I watch this video, featuring Mike Barnett and Nikolai Tillman demonstrating two tools in one talk, as stated by the two. The video covers two main areas: Contracts (presented by Mike) A contract library will be released with .NET 4. Why contracts? To enforce: Documentation of design decisions Executable contracts to check documentation Static verification Analyses all execution paths Guides development Not only explicit contracts … does some implicit checking Contracts become...
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Background information We have, for 10 years been a loyal, regularly paying and ‘reasonably’ satisfied customer of Deukom ( www.deukom.co.za ). With the move to Canada we notified Deukom last year that we would likely stop our subscription at the end of November, possibly end-December if delays occur. With the unfortunate delays we are, as everyone knows, only leaving for Canada this month. The questionable service The first shock came when we were told that our contract cannot be extended by another...
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Ram Cherala discusses improving code quality with VSTS2010 Lab Management, a technology which is really exciting. The video introduces and covers the following: Lab Management addresses the following challenges we all have: Bug “ping-pong” Expensive context switches between tester and developer Double hop issues Slow turnaround Camano data gathering is mentioned … but refer to http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/12/19/pdc-videos-2-microsoft-visual-studio-team-system-software-diagnostics-and-quality...
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Steve Carroll and Ed Glas, cover .NET scalability and performance testing, in a tools oriented session covering topics such as: Performance Lifecycle Load testing … drilling into the test result graphs. The visualisation of the load test, the collection of performance data during load test and the drilling into the data is a great feature. Performance data collection (sampling) walks complete stack, non-intrusively, collecting both managed and native environment data during load test … new 2010 feature...
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At 08:00 AM wmy wife and I met my dear friend Brian at Rand airport for a flight in his Jabiru J430 plane. It was a day from heaven … blue skies, no wind and clear skies after days of rain. We flew over Soweto, off to Hartebeespoort dam and returned via Sandton and past Johannesburg. We concluded the morning with a great brunch at the Harvard Cafe at Rand Airport. Brian, THANK YOU, very much for finally convincing me to enjoy a flight with you. I finally understand my oldest son, his passion...
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If you are an owner of the 1st generation Zune 30GB, you may … like my son and I … had a moment of panic over the past few days with your device freezing up. Yup, it is a worldwide problem and the ultimate nightmare of any software engineer. However, before you panic and use the sledgehammer to reset your device, read this Zune board notice Cause of Zune 30 leapyear problem ISOLATED . We did the Ostrich thing with my son’s Zune … stick head in sand and ignore the problem until further notice and...
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Dear Colleagues, This is my last official day with BB&D, which is both a sad and an exciting day. It is a sad day, because I am leaving behind a great company and the best team and team colleagues with ATC. Thanks to Ralf , I had the opportunity, challenge and especially his trust to create the Microsoft Technology Unit (MTU), which evolved into the ATC unit of today. The unit has been focusing on technology awareness, readiness training and research, both within BB&D and extending to communities...
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After a festive season break, I had a chat with the infamous Bijan who is running/driving the Branching Guidance II project for the VSTS Rangers. Not only has Bijan managed to unify the VSTS Rangers, the product stakeholders and the MVPs, not only has he ensured that a top quality product was shipped to CodePlex, but within a few days he has probably broken a few records: Branching Guidance II project has moved to the upper 25 most popular downloads on CodePlex, with 3985 downloads, within only a...