Archive for September, 2008

SharePoint log “Tracing service lost trace events”

Came across this weird little bit today on a client site. A dev server had nothing in it’s event logs other than entries that said "tracing service list trace events". Seeing as this was putting the brakes on my debugging of a solution I had to sort it out quick smart – and lucky for [ READ MORE ]

I’m presenting at Office Dev-Con in Sydney this November

I’m pretty pumped about this one, I’ve been asked to present at this years Office Dev-Con conference in Sydney this November. For those who don’t know what exactly this is all about, here is a quick run down. Office Dev-Con ran for the first time last year, it is a get together for developers and [ READ MORE ]

Problem with single-labeled domain names and Exchange 2007 SP1

Seeing as I have been working on some workflow stuff lately I thought it would be nice to add exchange to my virtual dev environment so I can make sure all the emails are coming and going as they should, and it turns out I wasn’t going to be able to do this as simply [ READ MORE ]

Control when a custom workflow can be started

Full credit to a colleague of mine for pointing me in the right direction on this one, but I thought I would put it here for others to find as well. Basically I was having an issue with a custom workflow I was developing for MOSS, I needed it to start to approve a major [ READ MORE ]

Using code to populate and read values from the MOSS People Picker

MOSS provides us with a neat little control for selecting users and groups. We see it all the time in SharePoint in almost every place we can pick a user from. You can take this control and use it in your web part or other ASP.NET applications, and reading its values and populating it with [ READ MORE ]

Error creating workflow project in Visual Studio for MOSS x64

Having recently got myself set up on a 64-bit development environment, I have found myself coming across this problem when you want to make a SharePoint workflow project in Visual Studio. If you try to create one of the SharePoint workflow projects you will get this error message – "A 32-bit version of SharePoint Server [ READ MORE ]

Windows Live Mesh – its just cool

  • September 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Software

For anyone who was at Tech Ed and saw the keynote speech you would have seen Windows Live Mesh (www.mesh.com) get a plug, so seeing as I hadn’t used it before I thought I had better go an check it out, and from first impressions all I had to say was "wow". For those who [ READ MORE ]

Tech Ed Australia 2008 – Day 2 and 3

I was going to write this up as two separate blog entries, but I was a little under the weather on Friday morning so I kinda didn’t get around to it! So anyway, here is my write up from days 2 and 3 of Tech Ed Australia 2008. Day 2 I started day 2 with [ READ MORE ]

Tech Ed Australia 2008 – My first day

Well I am in Sydney at the moment attending my very first Tech Ed event, and I gotta say that it has been pretty impressive so far. Here is a run down of what I have seen so far: In the keynote speech there was a lot of talk about ‘software + services’ and talk [ READ MORE ]

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