Technical Weblog of Eric Charran
A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges
Host MySite and Top Level Sites on Same Port in MOSS 2007
Chris Johnson wrote a great post on how to accomodate a MySite host within a single web application....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/15/2006
Virtual PC 2007 and ISO Images
For those of you fortunate enough to get your hands on Virtual PC 2007 Beta 1, it now supports ISO...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/13/2006
Customizing and Branding a WSS/MOSS Site
Here is a new MSDN article about customizing and branding MOSS/WSS site. Check it out! Branding...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/11/2006
Formatted Clipboard Paste for Windows Live Writer
Noah Coad authored a great add in for Windows Live Writer, my favorite blogging tool. This add in...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/08/2006
WSS 3.0 Tools for VS 2005 Released
I've just been informed that the Visual Studio plugin and tools package for conducting SharePoint...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/07/2006
No Halo 3 Untill 11/1/2007
Ack! I have to wait one year for Halo 3! https://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product_id=200240
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/04/2006
ClickOnce Community Resource Kit
Deploying a ClickOnce Applicaiton or asked by your manager to determine what its all aobut? Being...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/02/2006
New Office Online Site
The new MS Office website debuted today. https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx?ofcresset=1...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/01/2006
Special Characters in C#
This is just for my own usage (or whomever else finds this useful) \n New line \r Carriage return...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 10/26/2006
Another Great BDC Generator for MOSS
Here is another great BDC generator for MOSS 2007. If any of you have had the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 10/06/2006
MOSS Beta 2 TR Documentation
Just in case you (mostly I) need this again quickly, here are links to the updated SDK documentation...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 10/06/2006
Affordable RAID Storage for the Home
The great thing about having a web log is that you can use it to stick useful notes out there...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 10/05/2006
CAML Viewer
Another great community developed tool. This one takes some of the complexity about learning the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/20/2006
Compacting Virtual Hard Disks
My little USB hard drive recently ran into a space constraint issue because of the footprint of my...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/20/2006
MOSS 2007 Development Decision Matrix
Chris Johnson posted a great article on the options for conducting UI application development in...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/18/2006
Great MOSS 2007 Tool - BDC Metadata Manager
Every once in a while there is a truly serendipitous invention for software development that really...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/18/2006
Minor MOSS 2007 Tip
For those adjusting to the changes from Beta 2 to Beta 2 TR, the Internet Web Presence has been...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/15/2006
Using the Active Directory Membership Provider with Forms Authentication in MOSS 2007
Because MOSS 2007 supports the ASP.NET membership provider model there are new worlds in which...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/11/2006
Virtual PC on Vista RC1
After either installing a fresh Vista RC1 image or upgrading from the Beta, when launching Virtual...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/10/2006
Virtual PC Network and Vista RC1
For those upgraded to RC1 and attempting to run Virtual PC, you might get the following error...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 09/04/2006
Upgrading TFS From Trial to Production
Here is a great article on how to upgrade your (most likely expiring) trial editions of TFS to the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/26/2006
MOSS 2007 Thread Was Being Aborted
The MOSS 2007 Beta does not start the Windows SharePoint Services Administration Service. Thus, when...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/22/2006
How to Supply Credentials to a Web Service
When an web services is secured with Windows Authentication and you need to call it as a specific...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/19/2006
Team System for Database Professionals
The Visual Studio for Database Professionals is live. In case you haven't heard, its a Visual Studio...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/19/2006
How to Supply Credentials to a Web Service
When an web services is secured with Windows Authentication and you need to call it as a specific...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/16/2006
How to Check in Changes on Behalf of Another User - TFS
Buck Hodges wrote an excellent entry on how to enable check-in on behalf of another user. This...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/14/2006
Community Server-Based Temporary Post Messages
I imagine you'll be seeing a ton of these messages around the internet for folks using Community...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/13/2006
Windows Live Writer
I'm writing this weblog post from Windows Live Writer, a new web logging tool from Microsoft's Live...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/13/2006
Getting Latest on Check Out - VSS versus TFS
If the battleground for VSS vs. TFS will be fought anywhere it will be on this issue. As with any...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/09/2006
Reformatting and Installing a Fresh Vista on a Toshiba M200
As many of you Tablet M200 owners know you can't really install a new OS on the M200 because it...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/09/2006
VSTS Extended Ranger
I'm now officially a VSTS Extended Ranger. The ranger program at Microsoft is a team of highly...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/09/2006
Building a ClickOnce Manifest File with Team Foundation Services Team Build
Issue: When building a ClickOnce application using Team Foundation Build Services, the goal is to...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/09/2006
Differences Between VSS and TFS - User Experience and Migration
In my travels and implementation paths for implementing Team Foundation Server and making it coexist...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/09/2006
Team Foundation Server Team Build Execution Target Order Resource
The following link goes to an msdn2 article which outlines the order of target executions that the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 08/07/2006
New Fiddler is Out that Supports Vista
The notably handy Fiddler HTTP debugger tool has been updated to include support for Vista. Check it...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 07/31/2006
How to Schedule a Team Build in Team Foundation Server
Here is a quick command line reference on how to schedule the Team Build process in Team Foundation...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 07/19/2006
Backup and Restore of Team Foundation Server Databases
The Team Foundation Server databases have a increased level of interdependency. As such, there...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 07/19/2006
Signing the Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library
We recently ran into an issue where a Windows Forms application was consuming the Enterprise...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 07/13/2006
Installing IIS After Visual Studio 2005
If you happen to install IIS after Visual Studio 2005, you must first reregister IIS by running...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 07/07/2006
Glass in Terminal Services
Could it be true! Yes, as I connected to another Vista Box via the new RDP client, I realized that...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 06/26/2006
How to Rebuild Your Windows Media Player 11 Library
I recently ran into a problem when running my Windows Media Player 11 against my big library of...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 06/26/2006
Blogging with Word 2007 and Community Server
To successfully blog with community server, you have to specify your blog post URL. This URL is the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 06/21/2006
The Windows SharePoint Services virtual server has not been configured for use with ASP.NET 2.0
Run this command to get round this one: stsadm.exe –o upgrade –forceupgrade –url...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 06/08/2006
BizTalk 2006 Custom Functoid Reference
Here is a great article about the custom functiod object model. It provides context around the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 06/06/2006
Visual Studio.NET 2005 Shortcut Keys
Here is a pretty handy link for gathering shortcut key strokes in the Visual Studio.NET IDE:...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 06/06/2006
What I'm Running on my Tablet
Here is what I am running on my Tablet M4: Office 2007 Beta 2 Office OneNote 2007 Beta Internet...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/21/2006
How to Have Team Foundation Server Build and Deploy Setup Projects
This article describes how to have TFS's build functionality accomodate and build setup and deploy...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/19/2006
Automating Build Processes with Team Foundation Server
The following link goes to an excellent article which describes how to create a Team Foundation...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/18/2006