Monthly Archives: March 2011

Software Development Tip Number 33: Reporting should be your first thought, not an afterthought

“Reporting should be your first thought, not an afterthought” Almost every project requires reporting of some kind, and, in my experience, almost every project treats reporting as a second class citizen. Users usually don’t know what they want to … Continue reading

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Wictor Wilen’s guide to SharePoint 2010 authentication with Windows Live ID – part 1

via wictorwilen.se There’s no stopping this guy… Great post. Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata Import Tool – now on CodePlex

via sp2010metadataimport.codeplex.com The alternative managed metadata import utility mentioned in my earlier post (SharePoint Content Organizer causing data corruption when used with bulk-imported Managed Metadata) is now available on CodePlex: h… Continue reading

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Event receiver inheritance between parent & child content types #SharePoint

When you register a new event receiver for the parent content type, and update the content type using the Update() or Update(false) method instead of Update(true), then I found that the changes are not propagated down to the children content types… Continue reading

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Hosted RocketSVN source control #RocketSVN #Axosoft

I?ve been looking for an online source control provider for a while ? not seriously, but kinda browsing around. Found a few ? most around open-source projects, but some for commercial projects as well. Since I?m a big fan of Axosoft?s OnTime softw… Continue reading

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Software project tip number 97: Always include an easy way to switch to test data on demand

?Always include an easy way to switch to test data in your application on demand, without recompilation? The more complex the project, the happier you?ll be when you?re working through an issue, doing a demo, or just smoke testing integration scen… Continue reading

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Windows service not responding to stop or start events? Here’s how you kill it

This happens rarely, but it does happen under certain conditions: you go to stop or start a Windows service and it just hangs there. When you check the Services control panel applet, the service status is ?Stopping? (or ?Starting?) and there?s not… Continue reading

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