Just a minutes ago I came across this whitepaper: Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View
Explorer view is one of the features that causes more user complains, the main point about it is that needs the Web Client service running on the client machine and it is not always running, so it might cause trouble.
I’ve s... [Read More]

In a previous post I talked a bit about variations and since it has been the most viewed post of the blog so far :D I wanted to talk a little more about it.
I’ve seen many searches as “force moss variations”, so I did this post to give a c# code to force moss variation propagation. The solution with the code and the test webpart can be down... [Read More]

IE8 introduced a new element called webslices, it is a microformat that allows the visitor of a page to subscribe to a certain portion of the page. It’s different to an rss since there are no posts or xml involved, only “one time” html, but it shares the concept of “subscription”.
The way to implement that is the same as all the microforma... [Read More]

Last year we upgraded a big customer's intranet, it was a long project and during most of the time there were 4 to 6 people working on it. I'll stay away from most topics covered in Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 because they are treated there and I couldn't say anything new. What I want to tell you is how we organized the team, some s... [Read More]

During those past holidays I've been taking a very very quick look at Mono. It's an open source clone of the .net Framework which can run on windows, Linux, MacOs, etc, it is sponsored by Novell.
Claims partial support for ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows.Forms and is binary compatible, also claims full support for C# 3.0, that is: in ideal conditio... [Read More]

It’s simple, but sometimes leads to frustration, the value comes from the user.
You can give the user the best technically possible, user friendly, powerful application, but it is him/her which gives the value to it. You must “sell” the application to the user, convince him to use it.
Many times the question is "are you building t... [Read More]

One key factor in the success of a project is the motivation of the teams member, I think there is a common misconception in the heart of many “hardcore-techie” about the “goodness” of the team members, we cannot pretend everyone is as motivated as us, everyone will love their job just like we do or even that everyone will give their best at it. [Read More]

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