Paul Galvin's SharePoint Space

Quick and Easy: Set the Size of a Items in a List Box in a Windows Store App

Paul Galvin — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:51:29 +0000

In a Windows Store App I’m creating, I want to show the user various informational messages. I picked a ListBox as the tool to show it so that they can scroll through them and all that good stuff.

The messages are informational only, so there’s no need to provide all that extra whitespace around them [...]

Quick and Easy: Move a Rectangle Using C# In a Windows Store App

Paul Galvin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:57:57 +0000

My overall blog philosophy is that it’s perfectly fine to blog about old, settled subjects that have been covered to death elsewhere. I assume this topic is one of those, but I’m blogging it anyway.

I’ve been working on a window store app and I’m at the part where I need to do some animating. To [...]

Setting the Height of ListboxItems In a ListBox Programmatically for Windows Store App

Paul Galvin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:29:00 +0000

I’m working on a windows store application and one of the things I want to do in the app is display a log that shows status messages and other informational tidbits as the user works things. To this end, I added a ListBox as follows:

The C# code to [...]

Quick and Easy – Safe Azure Queue Names

Paul Galvin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Silly but simple post.

As a follow-up to yesterday’s posting on “StorageException was unhandled” I thought I’d show the wee snippet of code I use to generate queue names:

public static string GetRandomQueueName() { [...]

Working with Azure Queues – “StorageException was unhandled”

Paul Galvin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:30:41 +0000

I’ve been playing around with Azure queues for the last week or two and it’s been going smashingly. Where were these things when I needed them back in 1990?

This article, in particular, is an excellent intro to queues for .NET programmers: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/queue-service/. Using that article, I’ve been able to pull together a really nice bit [...]

Early Impressions on Surface Pro

Paul Galvin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:18:51 +0000

[Update 3/26: I got a tweet from the @Surface people asking if they could help me with anything, so I made a plug for Swype, which they acknowledged with an “Interesting – Thanks for the feedback, Paul!” I really think that Swype would make this device much easier to use for casual productivity. (Also, fixed [...]

An Unexpectedly Awesome Team Building Exercise

Paul Galvin — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:31:30 +0000

I convened a team meeting here for the New York SharePoint team and at the last minute, for no particular reason, added a new agenda item:

Personal info exchange: I’m going to pull up google earth and each of us will tell the team where we were born and where we live today. I’ll map it [...]

Tracking Practice Activities – Part 1

Paul Galvin — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:00:00 +0000

About a year ago, I joined Slalom Consulting here in new York as what we call a Practice Area Lead. (As a minor aside to the point of this blog post, that change in jobs accounts for my total drop-off in blogging. It was a big change in roles and a big change in day [...]

Slalom Consulting–Boston SharePoint Leadership Needed

Paul Galvin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:54:53 +0000

I joined Slalom consulting six months ago to the day and it’s been an incredible ride. I plan to blog some more about that now that I am beginning to feel fairly solid. Working here is like living in a fairy tale most of the time. Smart people, interesting clients, solid support from management both [...]

My Workflow Book is Available to Purchase

Paul Galvin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:23:38 +0000

I first started talking with my original co-authors over two years ago. They eventually abandoned the project, but late this summer, with the help of several new co-authors, I was finally able to bring this across the finish line.

Professional Workflow in SharePoint 2010: Real World Business Solutions hit Amazon and the Barnes and Noble [...]