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• Raja Pratap story about architect designing sidewalks

  I hope this is not too annoying a question. I remember story (perhaps apocryphal) about an architect who had designed a building that had a grass courtyard. Having finished the building, the architect was asked by an associate where the sidewalks would be placed in the courtyard. The architect answered to wait a year, see where pathways were established by people who walked the courtyard, and use those pathways to guide the design of the sidewalks. If this is a real story, can anyone point me to the architect and the source of the story. Thank you in advance. >>>bill<<< Sounds apocryphal. The story makes the point that one of the critical parts of design is figuring out how people wi ...Show All

• XNA Rockstar new default template for mySite

  Hi All, how can I update the default template for new mySites After studying the "Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Comnion" I see only a programaticly approach (the Object model). Is there any possibility for customers to modify and "save as default" Thanks in advance, Jens Anytime Jens, Good luck I have the documentation for this but have yet to find the time to install this. This forum is dedicated to Knowledge Networks though and im not sure why you posted. You may find a faster answer if you post your question in the General Questions and Answers forum. Im sure some of the other people that contribute to these forums have attempted this and will be of be ...Show All

• OmegaJ SharePoint with LDAP ?

  I saw a SharePoint demo in Quebec city yesturday.... It is a great product, I need to get this....! But... We don't use Active directory because we are in a Novell Environement... There is no way we'll change it for now ! Could SharePoint adapted to work on a LDAP Network... LDAP and AD are a bit similar.... I assume you are talking about SharePoint 2007. If so, it does support LDAP authentication by using the LDAP membership provider. Here's a link to a sampl.... http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/23b837d1-15d9-4621-aa0b-9ce3f1c7153e1033.mspx Hi, I have the same problem and what I found out: LDAPMe ...Show All

• AlexZheng a good book for me

  Hello everyone, Well, now I have grown in my company and I will have a few more responsabilities, I will be project leader of small projects, and I would like to ask you for a good book for me. Perhaps one about methodology, agile or XP, about team system, or perhaps about enterprise patterns or something. Well, waiting for your suggestions Thanks in advance. Here are some I'd recommend, all of them excellent books, on some of the topics you mention: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, by Martin Fowler Refactoring, by Martin Fowler The pragmatic programmer, by Andrw Hunt and David Thomas Professional Software Development, by Steve McConnell Agile Software Development, by Alistair Cockburn Beyond Software Archi ...Show All

• Jamie Thomson Search Scope with pdf files metadata

  Hi All: I face the following issue with MOSS 2007 search: I have a site column DocumentType attached to a document library. I have both word and pdf documents in the library, and in all the documents, I have set the column value to UserGuide. I have mapped this crawled property to a managed property (docytype) and created a search scope with the rule: docutype = UserGuide. If I search for the word UserGuide (without any scope), both the word and pdf documents are listed. This shows that the metadata has been crawled in both file types. When I use the Search Scope and search for words in the pdf file, MOSS is not showing any results. However, if I use the same Search Scope and search for words in the word files, MOSS is pr ...Show All

• Andrei Kuzmenkov Implementing DTO's in.Net

  Hi, Can anyone suggest some good approaches to build Data Transfer Objects using .Net custom classes. Also would like to make them bindable friendly. Meaning when I have an array of entities and would like to bind the same to a datagrid. what interfaces do I need to implement to make it bindable to the datagrid. Thanks Sai First you should definately read Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture if you have not already - there is a whole pattern/chapter on DTOs with example implementations in Java. The Java code is easy to understand and translate into C# or VB.NET. Since the DTOs are just data holders you might be tempted to just create a class with some public members. For d ...Show All

• BluEarth Software Error while embedding web part

  In the server, I logged in as administrator and added a “google search” web part using stsadm command and I added the web part under the “Home” page on the server site WSS, was fine. Later I logged into the WSS from my local machine using my user account, I was logged in successfully as administrator as I have added my ID as administrator while I logged in as administrator earlier. But when I try to add the google web part from my ID from local machine, WSS says: The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user. Web Parts Maintenance Page : If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily close Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site adminis ...Show All

• AAtallah CSF for Windows XP

  Is there a CSF version for Windows XP Hi Sachin, Developer full can be installed only on Win 2003 with SP1. Thanks, Ashish Hi Sachin, Actually there are 2 variants of CSF3.0 Developer version: Developer Lite - Only limited version of Session and limited version of Identity Manager components available. No AD server required. Developer Full -Session (up to 5), IDM, Profile Manager, Profile Integrator, Service Catalog components available. For this we need AD server. I am not too sure about CSF3.0 production version. Thanks, Ashish Malhotra       Ashish - Here is product break down of diff ...Show All

• airwalker2000 Sharepoint Designer + Expression - Frontpage = ?

  I just downloaded the Frontpage replacement which consists of two products named Microsoft Sharepoint Designer and Microsoft Expression. From what I can tell the two products are practically identical in functionality. Questions: 1. What is the difference if any 2. It looks to me like I can accomplish the same things that either of these two products are capable of using Visual Studio 2005. Am I wrong I do appreciate qualified feedback and thank you in advance.   - ppothier MBA/CIS, BS/BIS, MCSE, CNE, CCNA, A+, MCAD (in progress) P.S. Happy new year and looking to forward to a wealth of new Microsoft products to work with :). Hi and thank you for the reply. I was sort of f ...Show All

• Stuart Baker Language Pack installer issue

  I have Office SharePoint 2007 installed on Server 2003 and using SQL Server 2005. Also installed is Designer 2007 and all available SDK's. When trying to install InfoPath 2007 and Forms Server 2007 I am getting a error: "The Lanuage Pack of this system is not supported by your system". Although it would seem obvious that I downloaded the incorrent installers, I do not believe this to be the case since I have tried each of them a couple times in addition to having someone else download the installer for me. Anyone heard of this before or have any ideas Thanks, Greg I meant to follow this up sooner but forgot. I found out what the issue was in case anyone else ever comes across it... " ...Show All

• Quick x Scope Problems with Owner Draw Menus in an out of process ActiveX Document Server

  My Document Server is written with C++ MFC and built using VS .NET 2003 and is targetted to WinXP and newer. I’ve now run out of ideas on how to resolve my owner draw problem when an OLE container attempts to render my shared menus. Everything is fine when the keyboard is used to activate the menubar items. This is because the container is using WM_NCPAINT etc to create a real screen drawing context. This context is then passed through to the in place frame of my server where it will succeed in drawing the menu items ( WM_DRAWITEM ) When the menu bar item is clicked on with the mouse, however, the container make use of WM_PRINT, WM_PRINTCLIENT to render to a memory HDC. When this HDC is passed to my out of process serve ...Show All

• nhaas Learning design patterns

  Hi all, I'm very interesting of learning design patterns. I need your help please with two things : 1. Guid me start with easy patterns to understand then go harder. So if you have a list sorted by easy levels. 2. If you have links for concrete exampls for each design. Please help. Best regards... There are good books available on this topic My recommendation would be 1. Head First design patterns - for absolute beginners If you experienced in patterns, GOF book is the reference book. I 100% agree with Clemens. The best way to learn Patterns is to map them to real scenario. For example, how do you use factory pattern to solve my problem in F ...Show All

• A Bodnar Web Crawler

  How to parse CSS to make web crawler effective The quick and the easiest would be using RegEx and opening the CSS files in plain text format... ...Show All

• Kosmo007 OOP Design Question - Need an opinion...

  I know there is no "100% correct" way to design the following but any suggestions or shared opinions would be appreciated: I want to create a Customer business entity. Should this Customer class only contain properties and simple validation or should it also contain all the business logic and CRUD functions Should I create a separate class called CustomerService that handles logic by passing around and working with the Customer entity Example: How to add a new Customer 1) All domain logic in one Customer object . Customer.Name = "Bla" Customer.Save OR 2) Customer object to hold properties and Service object to perform business logic. Customer.Name = "Bla" CustomerFactory.AddCu ...Show All

• Divided Sky People search on user profiles imported from AD

  Hi I configured a full Active Directory import in the Shared Services Administration->User profiles and properties and I was able to get all the AD users imported into the server, however, whenever I search for people, I don't get any results back. Assuming there's a relationship bewtween the two, how do I link Search People to User profiles , or, if these things are unrelated, how do I Search People imported from AD You can restrict the query that SharePoint uses to retrieve users from AD. This is a great post on the topic of the LDAP query (it is written for 2003 but still applies): http://www.mindsharpblogs.com/wayne/archive/2005/06/15/497.aspx M Andrew: ...Show All