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  It's there! Today Visual Studio 2008 is released and arrived at the MSDN download sites for MSDN Subscriptions. It was announced only two weeks ago that Visual Studio 2008 would be released to MSDN before the end of November. And guess what? It is an early release as it is ready for download today November 19. I am downloading it ...

of something new.... Microsoft have recently released Silverlight, a rather funky new Adobe Flash/Shockwave killer. I am particularly impressed with what I saw yesterday at Microsoft in Reading,UK.  What follows is a high level overview of what Silverlight is and is capable of.   What is it?Silverlight is a slimmed down ...

Just been trying to find a good way of deploying these to different MOSS instances... e.g. Development, Test, QA & Live and also for giving to others for pre-sales demos. Thanks to Chris O'Brien for the very helpful pointers and code on this, check out his blog series at :  MOSS Artifacts Series These are implemented using Web Solution ...

Recently, I wrote a web service that consumes XML and generates output (PDF) files.  I used a component from tallPDF (http://tallpdf.net/) to handle the PDF file creation (based on an XML template) and things worked great.  However, we found that the size of the input XML file and the size of the output files made transporting the ...

  In my ongoing process to learn new stuff I use my blog a lot as a `note to self` tool. To remember all the new stuff concerning Orcas I will dedicate a section of my blog to the New Language Features. The first feature I add here is the Automatic Properties feature in C#. Don`t you hate it when you have to write these long sections of ...

Anytime I can say ''I can do that with one line of code!'' I feel the need to share... I have a custom SharePoint web part that shows employee data in a datagrid.  Recently, the client asked to have a couple of additional columns shown... only if the current user was a member of a specific Active Directory security group.  Adding the ...

In my previous post I went by gut feel on timings, I have now been able to do some proper testing and timings using a demo form which are as follows....Times to change view via C# code : 175 Rows -IE : 29 secondsFF : 9 secondsIP Client : 1 second 50 RowsIE : 5 secondsFF : 1.5 secondsIP Client : < 1 secondThis problem only occurs when there ...

I have recently started work on handling some of the events that can happen on a form library. One of these is the ItemDeleting event. This occurs during the delete process for an item. As the deletion of an object is part of a business process we had to copy the item to a Deleted library. This I did using properties.ListItem.File.CopyTo which ...

e.Site contains an XPathNavigator to the current node. It is worth noting that this is actually different to the xpath that e.Match refers to. It seems that if you have a repeating group in the xml and then the event is on a field within the repeating group; at this point in proceedings the value of e.Match is such that it contains the xpath to ...

Another handy thing to know   String xpath = ''sum(/ns1:Invoice/ns1:InvoiceDetail/ns1:Lines/ns1:Line/ns1:AmountMatched)'';int amountMatched = Int32.Parse(this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator().Evaluate(xpath, this.NamespaceManager).ToString); The above code shows how to evaluate any valid xpath expression so that you can calculate ...