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I am working with several team projects that need assemblies from other team projects.  For example, TeamProjectA has a few .Net projects that need to compiled, obfuscated, and distributed to other team projects that need the resulting assemblies...

Thanks to all who attended my desert code camp session on Migrating from ASMX to WCF using the Enterprise Library. I have posted my demo code for those who are interested. The demo was built using Visual Studio 2008 SP1, the Enterprise Library 4.1 and...

As one of the developers of the ESB Toolkit 2.0, I am excited to announce its general availability!  If you are using ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP2, I would highly recommend moving to the new bits to take advantage of all the great new features. ...

ESB Guidance 2.0 is now ESB Toolkit 2.0 and should be released in the mid-June timeframe.   Right now the codebase is maintained on CodePlex as open-source and only supported through the ESB Guidance community.  The ESB Toolkit will be...

While developing custom workflows you may find it difficult to troubleshooting issues when they arise outside of your custom code. For example, you may encounter the generic error "Error(s) Occurred" and have not logical explanation for it. I have found...

Surfacing a discussion that popped up on email recently... If you use HTTP-POST to send information from a browser to a web app, the browser will (correctly) complain if a user tries to navigate backwards using the browser's back button. Really, the...

The new CTP for Velocity is out. Velocity has made a lot of progress since the initial CTP, and this version includes API and perf improvements. Read more on the Velocity team blog and download the bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD...

Summary If you receive an error when attempting to use the Select user capability on the control form, this likely points to an invalid version of MSXML4 on the client machine. If this occurs on the server running ACES it is recommended that you use...

If during a soxin process you are noticing that only certain nodes are being imported, ensure that the Active flag for your AUTONUMBER_* file is set to False or Unchecked...

Summary While completing an installation and configuration of the Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint I was receiving the infamous HTTP Status 401 error while attempting to create a new datasource or executing the Set Server Defaults in Central...

Summary When using the ItemField control with a Multi Line fields such as the Instructions field, you may encounter the error mentioned above. This occurs in situations when you have specified a value in the ItemId parameter. To resolve this issue you...

Summary If you are working with the SharePoint data structure in any manner, you may come across a situation where you only want to return the latest version of an SPListItem stored in AllUserData. To accomplish this I wrote a simple sql function that...

Microsoft has confirmed that the company will be combining Office Live and Windows Live into a single set of online services.  Microsoft believes this move will improve and simplify customer experience with the product.  It is rumored that Microsoft...

ACES includes a feature that allows you to navigate to specific nodes within the Control Environment. The following is a step-by-step process for navigation to the correct node, and adding it to your favorites Navigate to the Control Environment and...

Update I have noticed that when using the People picker locating groups through the Role Provider will sometime require and exact match. For example, if you want to add Domain Users, makes sure you spell it out exactly in the people picker. Summary...

I encountered an issue where all the columns for a custom Content Type where not being displayed when attempting to Edit the Item. Oddly enough an IISRESET resolved the problem. Update: A colleague of mine discovered that adding a new column to the...

If you are creating a custom Content Type that derives from "Link to a Document" ensure that you have include the following element within the Content Type Element. If you do not include you will get the typical Upload Document UI instead of the New Link...

If you receive a 403 when accessing either TaskView.aspx or View.aspx the likely cause is an invalid Office Canvas license key. UPDATE: You may also review the following Error executing child request for view.aspx   More Information 2008-12-02...

When accessing my default shared service provider I was receiving a Service Unavailable. I checked the app pool and in fact it was not started. I had to reenter the username and password on the Identity tab and the problem when away…  ...

On Monday Microsoft officially launched the initial release of the Business Productivity Online Suite(BPOS) that includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Live Meeting Online. As part of the launch, Neudesic worked with one of our clients to extend...

Summary Adding properties to the profile page on a user's My Site is done through the Shared Services Administration site. The following is a walkthrough on how to add the Department property to the profile page for each user. Open Central Administration...

Scenario You want to be able to programmatically set a Mult-User column of an SPListItem. The trick is to build a string that represents the users in the following format SPUser user1 = {some SPUser}; SPUser user2 = {another SPUser}; string multiUser...

To use a custom master page with view.aspx or taskview.aspx perform the following: Copy the desired master page into the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\NCF directory. Update the master page to...

Symptoms When attempting to render a Canvas View you receive one of the following error: Error 1: Error executing child request for view.aspx. at System.Web.HttpServerUtility.ExecuteInternal(IHttpHandler handler, TextWriter writer, Boolean preserveForm,...

HOW To: Change a Narrative Template ACES provides the ability to create Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents that are integrated with the ACES Control Environment. By default, the document contains generic header and footer information that you may want...