by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I was browsing the Microsoft downloads site looking for SP1 for SharePoint and a wee popup asked if I would like to see the http://download.microsoft.com beta… You can view it at http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx and see what you think. My Silverlight …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Over the past year of using the Windows Mobile Device Center on Vista as well as ActiveSync 4.5 I have become increasingly disillusioned with them both and searching for another tool that would do the job better. Why Mobile Device …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I came across this amazing new service which is very similar to ClusterMaps, NeoWORX. It is a bit of a pain in Flash as the system resources required for flash these days seams a little excessive, but I would like …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, due to my campaign to get lots of free bandwidth I now have an additional 2.3 GB on top of my initial free 2GB bringing the grand total to 4.3 GB of online storage with Mozy! This is fantastic …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It is fantastic news that GeeksWithBlogs.net and Community Credit have now both said their vows and are now fully integrated with each other. Awww, so cute. A long and happy integration to you both… Now all we need is a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
A few months ago I found a cool site called Community Credit. I did not understand the premise at first, but after seeing the prizes page, I thought, what the heak! Community Credit is the brain child of one David …
by Martin Hinshelwood
All be it it is only popularity, but they are stars non the less… Willy-Peter Schaub brought and update of the Team System Widgets page to my attention and I remembered that I had submitted the TFS Event Handler I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am having a look at Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 as a solution to our disparate user identity problem. Some of the bigger companies out there have solved this problem, and in many of the smaller companies it just …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I currently have two referrals 🙂 Thanks to Garrett Hoofman and Andrew Stifora who got their fingers out and got backed up! Hopefully the others that have signed up with my referral link will complete a backup as well …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was looking for an online backup solution and Scott Hanselman provided it for me: Thanks Scott and good luck with all the new stuff :). These days, with all of your…lets call it “stuff” being mostly digital. The photos …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Better late than never, but I attended a MSDN event on Tuesday night in Edinburgh. Although I eagerly signed up for it, I did not expect to learn a lot: Windows SharePoint 3.0 – Martin Parry I am not usually …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Something occured to me after seeing the Family Show application from Vertigo. If you have not seen this application it is definitely worth a look. What I want to achieve would be to display and allow the edit of company …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In my quest to play with test VB 9.0 and it very cool features I created a little application to update Active Directory. I was asked by my boss (Andre) to get some sense of order into Active Directory for …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well it seems that Microsoft took the generally felt community suggestion and bundles Team Explorer with Visual Studio 2008 team Suit. I don’t know if they did the same with VS2008 Pro or the other version, but it would seem …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am a little confused by the RTM release of VS2008. I cant find a copy of the Team Explorer RTM or wither it is bundled with Team Suit. This would be a problem if I uninstalled everything only to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, its official. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 went RTM this morning…. So I will be spending the next wee while moving to the full release. if I can ever get the MSDN site to load. At the moment …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I decided that I should have a go at this LINQ thing, so as .NET 3.5 will be RTM at the end of the month I am using LINQ and .NET 3.5 in my new Locator project. The Locator project …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well this was fun… All the examples of how to connect through a proxy from SharePoint are missing a crucial piece of information! <system.net> <defaultProxy> <proxy usesystemdefault = “false” proxyaddress=”http://proxyservername” bypassonlocal=”true” /> </defaultProxy> </system.net> This is the accepted route, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
You receive error 401.1 when you browse a TFS Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6 This little problem occurs when you have Windows 2003 SP1 or later installed and you try …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, setting up TFS 2008 is pretty easy. I have done an upgrade before, but I have now deployed my first pure TFS 2008 server to a clean environment. I have Reporting Services, SQL and TFS on one box and SharePoint …