Random outpourings of a software developer
I do mind if you keep on having to run WGA. Once I have genuine software how could it change?
It is especially annoying as the checks have now started to fail (despite this being a fully XP licensed machine).
Otherwise the exception is “eaten”. That is not recorded in the logs.
The big flaw with the BDC is that the externally referenced data is cached in the list itself. The user needs to update the list (which can be time consuming) or the host app must do it for the user.
The key point is that there are two API’s for accessing the BDC catalog.
One is read only, the other is slower yet can update.
Another option is to export the web part definition in the web part hosting to a .webpart file.
The content can be used as-is in an elements.xml file
Adding web parts to a web page programmatically:
The GetSiteData method on the SPWeb returns all of the columns as datatype string. This does not appear to be documented anywhere. It is however the only single method that can query across lists.
CAML is a very weak query language. You can’t do much in the way of joins.
TFS refuses to check in a changed file. You need to restart visual studio to allow it to be checked in.
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