ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods
Posted by Michael Bowersox in ASP.NET, Development on March 21, 2009
ASP.NET contains some controls which makes adding AJAX features to your application rather easy. For example, Microsoft has provided us with the UpdatePanel. The UpdatePanel control allows you to partially render individual portions of your pages without initiating a full postback. The UpdatePanel control is great in many ways, but seems to be quite a [...]
Intro to the ASP.NET Charting Control
Posted by Michael Bowersox in ASP.NET, Development on March 3, 2009
A few months back Microsoft released a free charting control for .NET. You can download the charting control and the plugin for VS2008 at the following links:
Charting Control: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&DisplayLang=en
VS2008 Plugin: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1D69CE13-E1E5-4315-825C-F14D33A303E9&displaylang=en
Once these two packages are installed, we can go ahead and start creating our first charting project. For this project, we will create a pie [...]
WSPBuilder Folder Structure
Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development, SharePoint on January 28, 2009
WSPBuilder makes the process of building WSP files extremely simple as illustrated in a previous post. WSPBuilder supports many features including deploying files to the 12 hive as well as deploying assemblies to the GAC or the web application’s bin folder. To do this, you must structure your project files in a specific way. Take [...]
Intro to WSPBuilder
Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development, SharePoint on January 18, 2009
WSPBuilder is a tool for building web solution (WSP) files to deploy out to a SharePoint farm. It is free, open source, and available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder. It is a tool that, in my opinion, every SharePoint developer should be using.
So what is a WSP file? WSP files are web solution files. Essentially, they [...]
XCode Intellisense Shortcut
Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development on December 29, 2008
One thing that I had been struggling with while developing software with XCode was the lack of an Intellisense-like feature that is found in Visual Studio. XCode does have a nice code completion feature, but that didn’t solve the problem of viewing what members belonged to an object. Luckily I found out that you can [...]
SPWeb.EnsureUser
Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development, SharePoint on December 13, 2008
Suppose you need to perform some actions on a SharePoint user such as role assignment, but you are unsure if the user exists within the site you are currently working with. One solution, which I have always used, is to check for the existence of the user within the site and if they do not [...]
Visual Studio Intellisense Shortcut
Posted by Michael Bowersox in Development on December 6, 2008
I have been using Visual Studio since version 6, but never took the time to actually find out what the shortcut to bring up an Intellisense dialog is. Turns out that hitting Ctrl+J will bring up Intellisense for the current token. So two key strokes later I had this:
Simple and just what I was looking [...]
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