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Teaching with an Edge

"MIT professor and Web star Walter Lewin swings from pendulums and faces down wrecking balls to show students the zany beauty of science. "It took me a decade to come to the realization," says Lewin at his MIT office, "that really what counts is not what you cover, but what counts is what you uncover." "You have to challenge [students]. You have to be a little fun. I could make them sit on the edge of their seats, I could make them wet their pants." — Walter Lewin...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Hidden list named "User Information List"

"In case if you don't know there is a hidden list named "User Information List" which displays all the users of the site (collection) {MOSS / Sharepoint 2007}. And there is a page "Simple.aspx" which show this list, the URL for the page would be http://YOURSITENAME/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx." Gregory S. MacBeth : User Profiles Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Simplicity

What can we learn about usability… It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

SharePoint Skills Advisor Tool

"If you [are] interested in ramping up on SharePoint, the Product Group has developed a very slick tool that will point you to all currently available training on SharePoint, whether it be Instructor Led, Hands on Lab, Online Course, Reading, etc..." I downloaded the Access database and it looks like a very nice tool indeed! How many times have you been searching though all the available sources for that particular piece of information? If so, this might come in handy. Thanks Sean . Mirrored...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Displaying Users with Presence in XSLT Data View

In a list, you can create a field of type "Person or Group" and set the "Show data" option to "Name (with presence)". When the field displays the user's name, it shows the Office Communicator presence "globe" to the left of the name. If you use SharePoint Designer (SPD) to convert a List View to an XSLT Data View, fields that display as "Name (with presence)" do not display correctly. Instead you see HTML tags that would display the name with the presence globe. You can fix this by switching the SPD view to the Code (or Split) view. Find the XSL code that will display the name field: <!--PM Responsible--><TD Class="{$IDAEHOAF}"><span><xsl:value-of select="@PM_x0020_Responsible" /></span></TD> In the xsl:value-of tag, add disable-output-escaping="yes": <!--PM Responsible--><TD Class="{$IDAEHOAF}"><span><xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="@PM_x0020_Responsible" /></span></TD> SPD adds this attribute for some fields, but not all. You need it for any field that may be rendered by Sharepoint as HTML. I've found that disable-output-escaping also needs to be added for lookup fields. Values in lookup fields are rendered as hyperlinks to the list item in the lookup list. If the value in the lookup field contains special HTML characters (such as &), they are rendered as the "escaped"...

Second TFS Hosting Provider on the market

Looks like there is now a second Team Foundation Server hosting provider on the market. If you need a hosted TFS solution, head over to TeamDevCentral or TFS Now! and give them a ping. Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Error 1704

During deployment of a Team Foundation Server Policy I was greeted by the following error: "Installation for Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 1 is currently suspended. You must undo the changes by that installation to continue. Do you want to undo those changes?" While troubleshooting I found a utility provided by Chris Millard, called the Error 1704 Cleanup Utility . The utility removes any registry entries that cause the error. "Sometimes, when you try to (un)install a program...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Bringing down an ASP.NET Application for updates

ASP.NET Debugging : Bringing down an ASP.NET Application for updates "One of the really useful, and not well-known features of ASP.NET 2.0 is that you can use a special file to take your application down and show users a friendly message while you update the site... Just place a file called "app_offline.htm" in the root of your application. The html of this file is what will get displayed to any users that attempt to browse to the site. When you are done making changes, simply delete...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

and now for something completely stupid...

Every now and again I do something so stupid I question my status as a sentient being... This time, I was quickly knocking a demo together and needed to remove the search input box from all pages, 15 seconds later I have completed my hacking of the master page in SPD and published the file... Then I noticed all my list views stopped working... The usual MOSS error (unexpected error occurred ) was of little use, after enabling stack trace (thanks Vince ) I tracked it down to the missing search content...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Explaining Windows Live ID usage in Web Applications

"A High Level explanation of how Windows Live ID works. If you are using a web application that uses Windows Live, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live, you might be wondering, how does authentication work." Jon White of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live team gives a high level overview of Windows Live ID in applications. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live : Explaining Windows Live ID usage in Web Applications Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

PDF ifilter for x64

There has been a bit of an issue with a full x64 MOSS farm, mainly due to the lack of ifilters for x64, the obvious (and also, importantly, tested and supported) workaround being the use 32bit for the Index server and x64 elsewhere. The most common third party ifilter needed by clients (in my experiance) is for PDF documents, Adobe were very slow to respond and deliver an x64 ifilter (in fact they still haven't) but now have a publishing work around toi running v8.1 ifilter on x64, see this:...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Tech Preview

Overview Microsoft has created the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool , which provides deployment and migration support for Internet Information Services versions 6.0 and 7.0. This tool incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy, sync and migrate sites, including configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a Web server. This tool can be used on Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 as well as Windows Server 2003 and...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

SharePoint Designer 2007 Tips

SharePoint Designer 2007 is one of those beasts of programs that you have a love/hate relationship with. Honestly, the program is great when it works. When it doesn’t, you don’t call it SharePoint you can it some other names. Hey, its a learning Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

5 Whys

"The five whys is a question asking method used to explore the cause/effect relationships underlying a particular problem. Ultimately, the goal of applying the 5 Whys method is to determine a root cause of a defect or problem." ( 5 Whys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) This looks like a very succinct way to get to the bottom of the issue. I'll try it out and see how it works. For those interested in project management, effectiveness and software engineering, take a look at the weblog...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Free 411!

Body: Don't you just love technology? I'm just amazed at some of the possibilities we have with technology these days. Of course, I'm most interested when I can: Save money Give less (also read take away) money to phone companies. Point in Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks