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• Learning VB Recurring Appointment Database Storage

  Hello, I am writing an application that handles scheduling of appointments. I will need to support recurring appointments and I anticipate performance problems should I go about this naively. I believe my task is pretty simple to explain. One query might be to retrieve all appointments within a week. Or, all appointments within a month. Of course, these queries should combine results for single and recurring appointments. Specifically, I think I should be trying to avoid calculations within my select statement when I retrieve information from the database. So, I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on how/what data should be stored to ensure my queries are optimal. Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions! Y ...Show All

• Martin Eley Create Task Activity has correlation token conflict when in While Loop

  Hi everyone, First time posting here. I'm having a problem with developing a MOSS Workflow. The scenario is this: Within my workflow, I have a while loop construct. Within this while loop, there is a series of CreateTask->Wait for Task to be Changed -> CloseTask. It works fine until it loops back around to try to create another task with the same correlation token. In fact, that's the error I get. How do I get around this issue by disassociating the token or something like that. Thanks in advance for any help. rnellis2002 What you can do is use a replicator that contains a sequence activity, within that sequence you can then use CreateTask, onTaskChanged, and CompleteTask. Your ...Show All

• Gabriel_M .net binary web services.

  Just wondering if anyone is using .net binary web services. I know there are few experts in this forum, just wondering if you could share some input about the scenarios when it is appropriate to use them and any example articles which show how to use them, the advantages and disadvantages of using them. Thanks. I agree with Udi that if you don't need interoperability there is less motivation to use Web services. Though - One reason to go with Web services anyway is the built-in separation of contract and policy. Arnon Since web services = SOAP (plus a bunch of other standards in various ratification phases), which is XML based, what do you mean by binary web services If you choose performance over interoperability, ...Show All

• Venkataramana Cache duration not support for sharepoint sites?

  cache profile duration set to 180sec but it will show only 60 second cache happen on site cllection , site and page layout level then how will set it or have any option to know this problems ...Show All

• AlexBB Xml string compression?

  Looking for a way to compress a huge xml string. Xceedsoft has a compression library but should we really buy it just for that. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Sailu Regarding Pranshu suggestion, you have in .NET 2.0 a new API exclusively for compressing/decompressing streams System.IO.Compression Namespace Hope it helps Hi Friends, the below code can compress any kind of string. if u like this code u can use it... using System.IO.Compression; using System.Text; using System.IO; public static string Compress(string text) { byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text); MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); using (GZipStream zip = new GZipStream(ms, CompressionMo ...Show All

• dmetz Should we care about session timeout?

  Someone in my team requesting that we extend session timeout for SharePoint to 4 hours so when he had to go to the washroom or take his lunch he should be worry about his session to be killed. I couldn't give answer to what is the importance of session time out feature -if I can call it feature- Can someone educate me if there is any harm of expanding session time out from 30 minutes to 4 hours (besides that someone else can use your computer in your absence to access areas using your profile) Thanks! Mohamed Hi Ishai, I found this thread while trying to understand a problem I'm having with session timeouts... Sometimes, whether I log onto the Central Admin site, the SSP page, or a shared site I'm ...Show All

• kevow Custom Agent Desktop?

  Hi, We are building a proof of concept for a client of ours on CCF.and I was wondering, If I want to implement an application with similar functionality to the Sample Agent Desktop provided with CCF: Is implementing the UIConfiguration Interface and all it's methods sufficent Is there any other documentation on the agent desktop or atleast the Interfaces required and webservices in order to create another application with similar functionality Any help on this topic would really be appreciated. Thanks alot Yes it can be done. As an example, there are 2 implementations of the Agent Desktop in the CCF distribution. The one loaded by default with the agent desktop project is ...Show All

• Mio Error message in designer 2007 - Failed to load workflow

  Hi all, I was trying to create a custom workflow through the designer 2007. While I clicked on a new workflow button, I got the above error message. I have checked that all the necessary components are installed like windows workflow foundation 3 on the client machine. Can you please help me know what is the cause of this problem and also the related solution I would appreciate your early response on this. Thanks, Kedar I have also started receiving the same error... alos on the machines which were previously fine of developers on team. Has someone figured a solution to this Please help, it pains. Hi I also have the same problem i think i can't fixit but the ...Show All

• overthetop SOA and Custom Security Requirements - WSE 3?

  Hi, I have a couple of custom SOA security requirements that we have implemented using non-WSE approaches. The main reason being that it wasnt obvious to me where (or if) in the WSE 3 based architecture guide for SOA security from MS these requirements were addresses - I was hoping for some suggestions and/or guidence as to the approach. Initial Authentication and Authorisation The requirement is for a windows client needing to initially authenticate using Windows Authentication to an ASP.NET web-service which is used as a central authentication service. We are using vanilla settings using default credentails to call the web-service which has integrated auth turned on in IIS and 'windows' auth in web.config. The client authenti ...Show All

• NetPochi create multiple websites in different languages using WSS 3.0

  Hi , I am new to Sharepoint Services (WSS 3.0) . My requirenent is that i have to create multiple websites in different languages using WSS 3.0 . A user can view his content in any language. I have few queries here : 1. If i am creating a site in English using a saved template and i want to create another site in German using the same template then how to convert all the text written in English to German as the template was created from an English site Ex: Lists, Libraries and other items column names and other metadata information. 2. In the same above way. After running several sites in different languages using a specific template. Now we want to add a new List/Library/WebPart etc to them, do we ne ...Show All

• AndrewVos To count the user's accessing

  HI all I would like to count the number of accessing for my each page. How can I start to solve this problem Now, I have just installed th WSS 3.0 and SQL 2005 but not configed or do anything for the both of two. I already create the site, its subsite and also try to count the frequency of accessing. Thanks in advance Gogzilla ...Show All

• tacallah WSS V3 - SPListItem["Assigned To"] returns special character (#)

  Hi, I am trying to retrieve a value from a listitem and it is returning the desired value (name) preceded with three additional characters.. Any idea why it is happening. ex: SPListItem objItem; string strName = objItem[ "Assigned To" ].ToString() //strName has the desired value in it, but is preceded with 1@#.. Thanks You need to use the SPFieldUserValue object. example: private SPUser GetUser(SPListItem item, SPField userField) { string currentValue = item[userField.Title].ToString(); SPFieldUser field = (SPFieldUser) userField; SPFieldUserValue fieldValue = (SPFieldUserValue)field.GetFieldValue(currentValue); return fieldValue.User; } usage: string strName = GetUser(objItem,obj ...Show All

• John Paul Cook WebServices or SQL replication

  Hi, I need to develop an ASP.NET application that must connect to several different databases. Those databases are on SQL servers (except one) which are not exposed outside of the company. The application will be host on a public area. Then, I'm working on 2 different solutions for this application to get its data : * SQL Server replication : Replicate data from the private area to the public area in a new database. + Performances for the web application - Data duplicated - Conflict management (risk of concurrent updates) * Services oriented : Expose web services from the private area + Easy for others applications to get data (hide the complexity of the sub system) + More secure as no SQL server exposed to outside ...Show All

• Ta1os architecture guidance.

  hi everyone, iam planning to do a project and iam in analysis phase of the project. desc: it is a very simple project. lang: asp.net ,C#,oracle9i. i completed all the ui related parts.the project is very simple get the datas from the database,update those data or insert new data.uploading and downloading of files.excel uploads and downloads.user administration. now iam going to design the business logic and data access logic. i need to implement form based authentication. can any one provide me guidance for desiging the data access logic ,security logic thanks for your valuable information Start from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301240 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311495 These links have ...Show All

• MatteusX User groups not recognized as the target audience

  We are experiencing an odd behavior. There are some user groups, which are not recognized as valid target audiences, even though the are defined in the portal. It seems to be related to the names of the groups. For example, if I set the target audiences as: Salesman Administrator, Salesman the second group won't be recognized. Something like this: As anyone experienced something similar Any ideas thank you, Gabriel something like what you tried to paste something here Also, this does not seem like a question to ask the development and programming forum. Please post this in the SharePoint - Setup, Upgrade, Administration and Operation forum ok, I'll repost the question to the suggested forum ...Show All