Sticking To The Old Ways
The Principle!
For years I’ve been known among my colleagues by slaughtering those who don’t update their skills to the latest available. I’ve been arguing with friends on moving on to WCF from web services, ASP.NET MVC from WebForms, WPF from Winforms, etc… All this since I’m mainly a Microsoft developer. Strang [...]
Securing Microsoft SQL Server for Sha...
One day I was administrating a SQL server that will host multiple DBs for multiple clients. The thing is that SQL server by default allows any user to see names of other databases in SQL Management Studio (SSMS) even if he/she doesn’t have access to. This was unacceptable to me.
I searched everywhere on a solution to this matter. Most p [...]
404 Error in WCF RESTful Services
Recently I’ve been developing a WCF RESTful service. The service included a method to download / upload some files to / and from a backend database. The UriTemplate was something like “/downloads/{filename}.txt”. I was surprised that when I try to download for example test.txt, I was hit by a 404 not found error. When debugg [...]
Dynamically modifying udcx connection...
In a previous post I discussed how to publish InfoPath forms with code behind as a feature in SharePoint 2010. This approached had another side issue to handle; How to save/read the data to/from SP list while you don’t know the URL of the site you’re deploying to. In my case all my InfoPath form were supposed to read from a REST s [...]
How to REALLY deploy InfoPath 2010 fo...
Introduction
It took me about 3 weeks in development hell till I figured it out. 3 posts in SharePoint official forums and tons of Googling and Binging; all weren’t enough. I almost thought it was not possible. Well, it’s possible alright! There is just one simple trick. All you have to do -in addition to the normal steps of deplo [...]
SharePoint shortcuts – Epilogue
SharePoint is a great platform. You get a zillion things done for you with a few lines of code and some XML. But all those feature come with a price tag. Developing in SharePoint sucks!!! Horrible debugging experience, insanely scarce documentation, weird coding syntax -e.g. loading the query then executing it, not to mention what to dispose [...]
Hello World!
As the tradition is in Blogs related to software engineering -even though this blog is not intended to be only software engineering blog!- My first post will be a hello to the world!
It’s the first time I take blog writing seriously.I had one or two prematurely dead blogs, this time I decided it’s about time to give blogging a lon [...]
