This is the Unix Philosophy.
Those who don’t know unix are doomed to reinvent it badly…
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TFS fails as version control software
TFS is inadequate as a VCS.
The developers think that all development occurs in VS.NET.
This does not work if you use code generation
Example
I have a spreadsheet that I was to control in VCS.
If I lock the file and then replace it I get a (false) claim that the file has not changed – which automatically unlocks the file.
In order to get the file checked in I need to edit another text file in Visual studio. By changing this it notices that both have changed.
Example
Why can’t it perform keyword expansion like every other modern vcs!
Safecontrols and Sharepoint
This is an article on using safecontrols with sharepoint.
Splitting config files
This is an article on splitting config files.
Theoretically this could allow the development of a set of mutually exclusive sharepoint features that could be used to switch a server between test, uat and production modes.
Interacting web parts
This is an article on interacting web parts.
Enterprise Search and the BDC
This is an article on configuring the BDC to work with Enterprise Search.
The BDC is a database/web service abstraction layer that provides a unified api.
It claims to be of general use in Sharepoint.
I can see little benefit to it if you don’t want google like searches of your application.
The big problem is that you need to be very careful or the search mechanism will invalidate any access controls that you have.
The BDC is excessively complex for what it provides. The price in it’s complexity (as is generally the problem with sharepoint) exceeds the effort required to roll it yourself…
Fun with Virtual PC's
Lately I have been working on a Sharepoint project.
Sharepoint developers have two main choices:
(i) Develop natively on a server OS (which my IT Helpdesk does not support)
(ii) Develop on a virtual pc (which can be slow).
Sharepoint developer’s tend to be at least familiar with the vpc.
This is a solution to a common problem with vpc’s.
Typically one developer sets up the vpc then gives a copy to the next person to join the team.
You need to play games about leaving/rejoining domains and renaming machines.
One thing that you also need to do is to delete the ethernet_card_address entry in the vmc file (it is just xml).
You may also need to see this. That fixes the names that sql server stores in the registry.
Ubuntu on the eeePC
This is a site that provides a cut down ubuntu install that claims to work on the eeePC.
Asp.Net connection string bug
This is clearly a bug.
I have been using the connection manager class.
If you use an instance db then the database name part of the connection string is of the form:
ServerInstance
However if you leave this as this in the web.config this is returned as Server\Instance which is correctly identified as an invalid connection string.
You need to record this as Server\Instance so that it will return the result ServerInstance.
Why should an xml based config tool start escaping data that is entirely valid xml?
Programmer's Wiki
This is docforge. It seems to be a good start at a general purpose programming documentation site.
It may be a bit thin on the ground in some areas…
It may be a bit thin on the ground in some areas…
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