Suman Chakrabarti - Coding for Office Apps
Office Collaboration, .NET dev, Social Computing and other random bits of goodness
How to change the lock state via CSOM
PowerShell Approach Setting the lock state for a site collection has a few rules that aren't...
Date: 11/19/2014
How to change the logo in Office 365
One thing I had trouble finding was how to change the logo in my Office 365 tenant. It's not obvious...
Date: 11/19/2014
How we decided to unit test the OfficeDevPnP core
Overview Unit testing the Office Developer Patterns & Practices Core solution was definitely a...
Date: 09/03/2014
So, You Want to Build an Office Mail App
Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Pinterest, and all the other social media outlets have an amazing...
Date: 05/12/2014
How-to Get and Install SharePoint 2010 Language Packs
Many organizations I've worked with are trying to ensure multilingual support in their SharePoint...
Date: 03/06/2012
Create a Setup Project for a 64-bit Windows Service in Visual Studio 2010
I was having a lot of trouble with this, so I'm going to share it. Visual Studio 2010 setup projects...
Date: 11/03/2011
Must-read articles on string comparison performance
I've always wondered which is the fastest technique to do a string comparison? using the...
Date: 05/26/2010
Cannot use Visual Studio Unit Tests to test against a live SharePoint 2007 site if on a 64-bit machine
I scoured Bing (and Google) to find out why my Visual Studio unit tests will not allow me to test my...
Date: 04/16/2010
Needed to replace full hard drive with larger one - Backup/Restore
So, I had the exact same problem as Tim Heuer (New hard drive means re-install everything). 150GB...
Date: 04/12/2010
New years resolution...get back into writing
With all the microblogging I do, I've found myself writing less informative blogs. I started a...
Date: 01/05/2010
Problems getting Hyper-V to install the Integration Services components?
I had problems getting the Hyper-V Integration components installed in my VPC this evening. After a...
Date: 10/08/2009
Boot from VHD on a Bitlocker enabled host...not happening
This should have been obvious to me, and whoever you are searching for this, but apparently it's not...
Date: 10/07/2009
Working on my first WPF/WCF app for a customer...
This is the first app that I get to work on for a customer that uses WPF and WCF. I'm finding the...
Date: 09/24/2009
'How do I' get redirected to the default Error or Success layouts pages?
You just want the error message to be displayed on the default SharePoint error page. Is this an...
Date: 01/25/2009
'How do I' create a long running operation page (gears page)?
This one is an awesome feature to add if you've got an application running a workflow asynchronously...
Date: 01/25/2009
'How do I' create a layouts page
Following the lead of Sara Ford, I think I want to do a 'How do I' piece for SharePoint developers....
Date: 01/25/2009
MOSS/WSS SDK 1.4 - has Federated Search web part examples
In case you missed hearing about the new SDK, here's a great post on what's in it....
Date: 09/01/2008
Starting/Canceling a SharePoint Designer workflow programmatically
I had enough trying to find this code, so I'm putting what I've pieced together to activate a...
Date: 08/16/2008
Get PublicKeyToken using external tools
I hate fishing around to get the publickeytoken for my strong named assemblies, so I fished around...
Date: 07/16/2008
SharePoint ReadOnly Field can be written to by workflows
So, I scoured the internet (all of it, I swear) to find some information on readonly fields in...
Date: 06/24/2008
Windows Live Cashback program ROCKS!
I just bought a video camera online, so I figured I'd check out the Live Cashback program and see if...
Date: 05/29/2008
Navigon - a Windows Mobile 6 GPS
I just got my Navigon 7100 GPS and I have to say I'm impressed. I really like the navigation quality...
Date: 05/18/2008
Presentation at CodeCamp Pittsburgh
I presented a Silverlight 1.0/2.0 demonstration yesterday at CodeCamp and it went quite well. Most...
Date: 04/14/2008
Addition to Steve Peschka's PartCheck code
I ran into a problem when trying to use Peschka's PartCheck code for My Site autoconfiguration to...
Date: 03/26/2008
Presenting at Pittsburgh Code Camp - WCF POX/ReST Services with Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0
I'm speaking at Pittsburgh's Code Camp on April 12th located at University of Pittsburgh's Sennott...
Date: 03/26/2008
IIS app pool limits to keep in mind for SharePoint
Depending on your hardware configuration IIS 6.0 does have a potential limit to the number of...
Date: 03/25/2008
SharePoint Star Wars lines
I posted these to Joel Oleson's MSDN blog, but since he's moving the blog, I didn't want to lose...
Date: 03/20/2008
Migrating Web Part Pages to Publishing Pages
Unfortunately, you cannot natively migrate web part pages to WCM publishing pages. The benefit of...
Date: 03/16/2008
The Planet Star
This is a diversion from the usual tech stuff I blog, but my mother just published her book--a dream...
Date: 02/03/2008
OpenSearch provider for MOSS search
It's nice to have that handy-dandy search bar in the upper right corner of your Internet Explorer...
Date: 01/29/2008
Migrating MyLinks
So, I was recently asked how to migrate MyLinks from an SPS2003 SharePoint site. The hurdle is that...
Date: 01/10/2008
Advanced UserControl stuff for easier customization
I put together this post on my old blog about 2 years ago and was recently asked questions about...
Date: 11/28/2007
SharePoint development best practices on MSDN
Some great articles on SharePoint best practices have been published on MSDN. Best Practices: Common...
Date: 11/16/2007
SharePoint customization guide - Brett Geoffroy
If you're into MOSS customizations, check out Brett Geoffroy's MSDN blog. He's done a sweet job...
Date: 11/13/2007
Some great SharePoint training
Official SharePoint Blog – this site has real world examples...
Date: 09/19/2007
Managed paths for new site collections
Just saw a great demo on planning sites and found out how to use managed paths to create site...
Date: 07/25/2007
SharePoint guidance
I just had a recent discovery for a great SP content source! I think from now on before I leave a...
Date: 07/25/2007
The My Site drives
One of the features of SharePoint is its WebDAV available interface. An advantage to this interface...
Date: 07/03/2007
MOSS Profile Search LDAP query to remove disabled and service accounts
To put together the right query to get users that are not disabled accounts nor service accounts,...
Date: 06/28/2007
Notes on Lotus Notes Search in SharePoint
Links to configuration of Notes search in SharePointTechNet: Lotus Notes Configuration for...
Date: 03/31/2007
At the Boston MTC training up on MOSS
I'm up here in Boston learning about some features I didn't know about in MOSS 2007 from Scot...
Date: 01/17/2007
My first major AJAX project
I'm working on my first major AJAX project and I've been following the updates this entire time. I...
Date: 01/05/2007
Active Directory Activities for Windows Workflow Foundation posted
My Active Directory activities have been published to the .NET 3.0 web site. They are available...
Date: 12/21/2006
WinWF Active Directory Activities
I've been working on building out some AD activities for Windows Workflow Foundation. A few months...
Date: 11/30/2006
Zune drive
It didn't take people long to hack it. https://phaleux.com/?cat=1 This is obviously not supported by...
Date: 11/24/2006
Zuner than later
Got my Zune! WooHoo! This thing is awesome! First impressions were that it's a little bulky, and I...
Date: 11/17/2006
Can't wait till Zune!
I've never owned an iPod or any music/video specific device (just my smartphone), so I never really...
Date: 11/10/2006
Zune to get rid of the iPod
If you have an iPod or have been thinking of getting one, the new Zune media player is coming out...
Date: 09/27/2006
Office Live!
Okay, something cool again. Office Live! gives you a personalizable web site and some Live! Mail...
Date: 09/25/2006
Add maps to Outlook from Windows Live! Local
This was a little too cool to pass up. You can add maps from Windows Live! Local to your Outlook...
Date: 09/09/2006