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• AlfonsAberg Source code control using MOSS 2007

  Hi All, We are using Miscrosoft share point server 2007. We like to know if there is a possibility to use this for the source code(from Visual Studio) versioning. If it can be done, can you please point me to some documents which talks about this. Thanks in Advance. Lokeya Just to emphasise the correctness of the previous poster's comment by repeating them. Versioning in the v3 SharePoint products is greatly improved on the "versioning" that was in the v2 SharePoint products but still isn't good enough for Source Code control. Mike Source code control is not content versioning. VSTS, and WSS 3.0 are designed with this dis ...Show All

• Sgupta Connecting WCF Services

  Hi, Is it possible to connect WCF services using CSF If it is, what are the guidelines How can I configure CSF using specific channel to access WCF service Thank you, Mark WCF with Ws* bindings are wire level compative with WSE messages and hence CSF messages. So we should be able to use WCF services with CSF. Please refer to Interporabiity of WCF for guidelines on selection bindings to make it interop with WSE3.0 services. ...Show All

• Andy Britcliffe where can I find an example of requirement document for some small project example

  And also, if there is any place with examples of software documents for all developement phases (use case example, class diagram, sequence diagram example, requirement document example) just to understand how we use that in real business. I would appreciate. Thank you You could have a look at this url: http://www.extremeprogramming.org They describe one method that can be used to design and build a project, but the design bit is not very detailed. You could also have patiente (not sure how much ) and keep track of my weblog ( http://jonaveen.spaces.live.com ) and I will elaborate on this in the near future. I use the MoSCoW principle for requirements. It's short for Must have, Shoul ...Show All

• CostasT Where can I find older versions of Microsoft Products?

  Hi All, I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, if the moderator thinks it's not, please move it to the right one. I wanted to ask you guys if you can post some urls where I can download older versions of ALL microsoft products. (DirectX, Windows Media Player, MS Office, etc ...) I need these to test my apps that it would be backward compatible to older releases of the products. If you can point me to an archive site where microsoft keeps their older (even unsupported) products (if there is one), I would gladly appreciate it. You will find that if you have an MSDN Subscription you should be able to get hold of the older products that are still active, As to older versions you m ...Show All

• Alastair Q Custom IRM Protector

  The SDK has some light documentation on creating custom IRM protectors, but no reference as to where to get the interfaces or the class definitions for the supporting classes. Is there a typelib somewhere I can't find it. A sample project would be nice too. The documentation has a sample pseudo-implementation, but there's no way to get started without the COM interface definition. Interesting, I figured out why I couldn't find it. The link you provided is to the beta version of the ECM Starter Kit. The MOSS 2007 SDK now includes the ECM Starter Kit as part of its install. That's what I have installed, and that header file is missing from the SDK install. Looks like somebody maybe missed a f ...Show All

• John1001 Architectural Considerations for Auditing

  We are building an application which connects to two kinds of database viz. one is a local database store and other is located at a central server. Now to perform auditing for every transaction I am of the opinion to do auditing at the database level. Implement it as part of trigger insertion into an audit table. Reason being its simple to implement and maintain. My Database Architect is against the idea and wants me to handle auditing at the application level. Would appreciate your viewpoints and guidance on this. Thanks Sai Dear Sai, Generally raw db audits don't satisfy the audit requirements from most applications as understanding data out of raw audits is complicated. I recommend that y ...Show All

• Chien Lim Error Changing a Master Page or Creating a Site in MOSS 2007

  On switching Master pages for a site I get an error, I get the same error when creating a subsite. It still switches the page correctly for a Master, but on Site Creation this error causes a problem because the site is not setup correctly (welcome page is not correctly setup for the site) The error I get is : File Not Found. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoi ...Show All

• RAMPRAKASH User Profiles in sharepoint 2003.

  Hi, I have some queries related to User Profiles in sharepoint 2003. Query: I need to get logged in user office location which will be available in Manage user profiles database. To view UserProfiles: In Sharepoint 2003 server goto Site settings > Manage Profile Database > View User Profiles. It displays all users profiles. sample code to get User Profile: strSiteUrl =" http://sps-server1 "; TopologyManager objTM = new TopologyManager(); PortalSite objPS = objTM.PortalSites[new Uri(strSiteUrl)]; // throwing error this line is throwing error " Value cannot be null. Parameter name: site". ...Show All

• Dotnet007 Business Data Field as a site column

  Hello, Is there a trick or a work-around to use Business Data Fields as a site column We would like to add a Business Data Field in our Content Types. But when I create a new site column, I can't select "Business Data". Thank you, David Hi David, Business Data was an option for creating a site column in Beta2, but was removed from RTM due to technical issues. Unfortunately you have to create it seperately for every list/library that you want it implemented. Cheers Nick ...Show All

• Jean LeFrancais usb driver programming

  How can I program a usb driver for windows I am building my own electronic usb peripheral. Exepted the hardware aspect, how can i make windows to identify and handle the peripheral To create a driver you'll need to use the Windows DDK (Driver Development Kit). Last I remember, it contains two or three USB-related sample drivers you can use as a starting point. You might get better information on the microsoft.public.development.device_drivers newsgroup, btw. ...Show All

• Sybed SharePoint 2007 ECM for IIS sites (non-SharePoint integrated IIS sites)

  Hello, I am currently reviewing the capabilties of SharePoint ECM for creating and publishing content for our companies public website. Our site is hosted by Verio. Based upon what I undestand of SharePoint architecture is that ECM is setup to manage SharePoint sites only. Would it be possible to manage content published to externally hosted Verio site Questions: 1) Can SharePoint manage and publish non-SharePoint IIS sites (I don't this can be done out of the box) 2) How hard would it be to copy pages and content from a SharePoint managed site to IIS thx jjmasteril Hi, In answer to your questions: 1) No - SharePoint only knows or cares about SharePoint IIS websites; if an ...Show All

• Rush hour CSF 3.0 installation problem, Create DB fails

  Hi, I'm trying to install CSF Server but the installation program run into a problem during the database creation part, and I get an error message saying: " Error 26201. Error -2147217900: failed to create SQL database: CSFProfileIntegrator, error detail: CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors..." CSF and MS SQL 2005 are installed on different servers. When I manually try to create a database from the CSF server this works fine. I have downloaded the most recent CSF server software from MSDN. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or where I can find logfiles with more detailed error descriptions... Geir-Ove Provide ...Show All

• Hussain Saffar UML question

  I have a web site that I am documenting. It does a search process and stores the criteria choices in the session. The it goes into another page for view order details.   I displayed the activation to start of the criteria and at the end of the criteria when they come back. But, I was looking at another architects drawings for another company and he makes the activation small. And, yes since a page is delivered right after a request. I can see him make short activations. But, since the criteria is held in session I think the activation should extend until this data is released.   Main --> || Search  --> Details            &nb ...Show All

• Ondis multi tier to one tier with WCF and Linq?

  This weekend I have played a little with Linq, and in my current project we are using WCF (I love it). My current project is n-tier: per-table dal, dal, bll, sil, client. Well, looking to WCF and to Linq we will have something like this: per-table dal, dal --> Linq Bll will implement service interface. Sil --> user security will be into a dll that you can use through WCF (claims security). What do you think weekend paranoia :P Looks great ..but you will have to see how much LINQ is performant than traditional methods. http://DotNetWithMe.blogspot.com vikas goyal ...Show All

• a_takavci failover to backup web service

  We have a failover site to host our web service for a company mobile app if our main site goes down. To implement support for it, I coded something like this: Try ws.Login(username, pwd) Catch ws.Url = Config.GetSetting("backupUrl") ws.Login(username, pwd) End Try See any hazards Thanks. Thanks for the comments. (Perhaps I should have mentioned, the servers are in separate cities, for disaster hardening). Thanks for the feedback! Why have a 'backup' service when you could load balance 2 or more servers and therefore not have to worry about fail over servers from a code perspective. HTH Ollie Riches Do the server share a SAN across data centres If so you should be able to replicate over ...Show All