tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029965964496137152009-11-11T14:00:25.837-05:00<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MikhailDikov"><img border="0" src="http://home.earthlink.net/~mdikov/images/feed16.png"/></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;In a flat world every byte of knowledge counts...Mikhail Dikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13980715720338179589noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002996596449613715.post-16517770388319669432009-10-19T13:51:00.000-04:002009-10-20T17:05:25.976-04:00

Many novices and experienced SharePoint developers have been using the technique of hosting a UserControl in a web part. Traditionally beginners like it because it provides design surface similar to ASP.NET and allows them to be productive without learning all details of how custom controls work. ASP.NET developers entering the SharePoint world find it very convenient to reuse existing component

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  It has been a busy month getting ready for the SPC in Las Vegas. I am really proud that this time I am not going to be not only a visitor of the show, but take part of presenting what we at Global360 have been working on in the last months. We’ve been working hard on improving the integration of Process360 with SharePoint and what better opportunity to show off our work than SPC. I think we’

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We’ve been working on a lot of things that are starting to surface the marketplace in the last couple of months. If you are interested to follow the latest developments from the leading pure play BPM vendor tune in to: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Global360IncBPM Facebook: Click http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global360-Inc/106369541359?ref=nf YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/

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Just saw the videos for project Natal (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/) a new revolutionary video camera based controller for new and existing Xbox consoles. It is really great that to see that there is some competition in the new generation of console games. Even though Wii is still the true leader in this category it is refreshing to see that Microsoft will offer a comparable and

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In the last week or two in SharePoint land there were some interesting announcements and changes. The first on my list is the availability of Office Designer for free. While this product is not a spoon for everybody's mouth, it certainly makes it easier for a wider developer community to try out and use it and most importantly you can be productive in short time. This is great for many who are

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Take the survey posted by Todd Bleeker of Mindsharp here: Preferred SharePoint Development Tool. With no surprise for me with 44% at the time of writing this, the winner is WSPBuilder by Carsten Keutmann. What is your favorite?

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Isn't it great to be a "January" MVP? You always get the news for the award first thing in the morning of January 1st. Perfectly in time for new year's resolution. I am pleased to announce that I was awarded the MVP Award for a second consecutive year. This is a great honor and validation of my work for the developer community. However the most important aspect of the MVP award for me is that

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It is a popular technique to store resources, such as CSS, XSLT, JavaScript and HTML files, in resources files embedded in an assembly. This approach makes solutions more self contained and makes localization easier using satellite assemblies. The processing of the resources is usually handled by a specific HTTP handler. Many times these resources are rather static and there is no need to reload

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Recently I had to tackle some performance issues in a set of AJAX web parts. We experienced unexpected slowdowns, which were increasing exponentially with the increase of the data being handled. After some investigation I found that the code is using the very popular base64 algorithm in JavaScript. This encoding is has the advantage that it has a counterpart in the ASP.NET server side and can be

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If you tried to modify some properties of your web parts and save them from server code you probably noticed that there are some differences in the way this is handled in the SharePoint web parts namespace and in the ASP.NET web part namespace. Particularly if you are trying to save web part properties from code that is outside of the actual web part. In SharePoint land the SPWebPartManager

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Couple of weeks ago I finally came about to upgrade my laptop to Vista SP1. Unfortunately the installation failed with one of these general errors, which indicate there is a corrupt file in my system. I tried to look up the error, but the proposed solutions were so wide in range that soon after I realized that I'll be loosing a lot of time fixing this - more than I wanted to spend. Some suggested

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Recently I wrote an article about folder content types in SharePoint and how they can be leveraged to improve the document management in a SharePoint document library. The comments to the article show that there is definitely interest and potential in using folder content types, but they also point out some serious omissions. SharePoint MVP Ivan Wilson has taken things to the next level in a

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For all the AJAX and ASP.NET fans out there I wanted to point out the upcoming book by Daniel Larson (SharePoint MVP). Daniel has an impressive knowledge about what's going on in .Net 3.5 and the coming SP1. The book will guide intermediate as well as advanced developers in the ASP.NET AJAX inroads. I already had a glimpse at some of the chapters and they are impressive and easy to comprehend.

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This year Tech-Ed has two editions for IT Pros and developers. The weekend between the two events the Orlando Convention Center continues to be reserved by Microsoft. So what did the local DE's come up with? ]inbetween[ A huge community driven FREE event. Tons of speakers, user group leaders, MVPs, RDs etc. from Florida and beyond will have an enormous amount of sessions both Saturday and Sunday.

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The first week of June I'll attend TechEd Dev. Monday I'll be on a Silverlight pre-conference session and the rest of the week at the actual conference. I noticed that this time around TechEd has tons of 300 and 400 session, which is really great. It looks like every day after hours there will be a party going on. Tuesday SharePoint MVP Champions Andrew Connell and Bob Fox host SharePoint by

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Folder Content Types for IT Professionals Published in the May 12, 2008 edition of To The SharePoint Most of you SharePoint enthusiasts probably know quite a bit about content types in SharePoint. They provide the means to organize metadata in an extremely flexible manner and provide the context for workflows, custom menus, and document templates. However, due to the document centric nature of

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Every once in a while there is a technology or a service that will change our perception about the way business is done in certain areas of life. One such fundamentally different approach to healthcare is presented by Dr. Stephen Schueler and his team at freemd.com. Before I joined Global360 about three years ago, I was for almost 4 years with DSHI Systems (the makers of freemd.com) and this was

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Every once in a while I'd like to take some time and evaluate existing software that I use on a daily basis and also new programs that caught my attention recently. In this cycle I did some changes that made my life easier and I want to share them with you. I picked several software packages ranging from VM software to HDD utilities and there were some real keepers. But before I go there let me

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Every once in a while we whiteness huge deals with the equivalent of tectonic movements to shake the industry. The Microsoft/Yahoo deal would've been the biggest financial transaction of the Internet era. This deal would've impacted not only the industry and all Yahoo employees, but also everybody in the Microsoft ecosystem. This ecosystem includes a huge number of partners, ISVs and developers

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After a week in Seattle attending the 2008 MVP Summit I needed a break of couple of days before I can get get back to normal. The Summit is certainly a very different type of a conference. Here are couple of variations I would like to point out. Regular conferences dive directly from day one into regular sessions. Slide decks, presentations, code samples etc. At the MVP Summit on the contrary /I

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Three central Florida .net user groups pulled together an awesome event today. Great sessions, good and healthy food, excellent facilities, price tag -- zero! I would like to thank all of the attendees that came to my sessions. Follow the link at the end of the post to download the presentation slide deck and the sample code. Slide deck 1 Slide deck 2 Code Sample Dovizhdane!

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This is an excellent book for developers starting to get more involved in Silverlight. I already had some exposure to Silverlight from presentations, demos and screen casts, and this book helped me get the bigger picture of Silverlight by describing from A-Z the essential components and techniques of this RIA platform. Even though it is dedicated to Silverlight 1.0 IMO about 80% of the book is

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This Month: Intro to SharePoint Designer When / Where?Wednesday, April 2, 2007   - 6:30 PM EST Orlando Public Schools Administrative Offices445 West Amelia StreetOrlando, FL 32801 – 1129 How to sign up?http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=126847 Who Should Attend? Developers, designers, power users, architects, administrators. What will be covered?In this session we will dive into SharePoint

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How many times have you experienced a chilling moment when something goes terribly wrong with the system you just touched and you don't have any clue what would've caused it? In a SharePoint installation with multiple web applications and several custom solutions there may be a lot of action going on in web.config files. Even the slightest validation error in these files will bring the web

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Just noticed that the Orlando Code Camp is sold out. This is going to be another super-charged and totally free event organized by our friends at ONETUG.org. I signed up as a speaker with my two sessions from South Florida Code Camp. They were very well received in South Florida, so after some adjustments I decided to give them one more run. Come with your experience and ideas and lets talk about

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