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• Arnaud H [OTP] First physical sector

  is it possible to delete the first physical sector on a logical volume I make this question 'cause I have been using PARTION MAGIC by POWER QUEST. I tryed to delate partions of my hard disk and accidentally I eliminated all of them. Now, I can't to format my disk and of course; i couldn't to partion it. I appreciate your helpful! This site is for software development questions. You might find the following to be a better place to ask this type of question: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/default.mspx or http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/default.aspx siteid=17 ...Show All

• ST W How do you prevent users from creating personal sites?

  I have created 7 sites, one for each department and I will be setting up permissions for certain staff to manage them. What I would like to prevent is everyone clicking up in the right-hand corner on 'MySite' and creating their own personal site. Is there a way to either keep this from happening or hiding the tabs from view You can grant the Personal Site permission to a subset of people in your organization by using one or more security groups. This in effect will allow you to limit who can create a personal site. By default all users have this right. This is configured in your SSP. Technet has some documentation you can refer to that should help http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/e ...Show All

• hbjeon Why return a Success boolean from a web service?

  Jeromy Carriere's MSDN Webcast: Patterns and Anti-Patterns in SOA critiques web services implemented as a Sub (void method), with no indication of success returned. I don't understand why we would want the clutter of in-line checking for success. There's no end to it once you start down this path -- instead, why not catch exceptions thrown by the web method It seems even if you call a method asynchronously, your callback method should catch exceptions and raise them in the usual manner; otherwise, just code for the "happy path" and keep it readable. Now that we have exception support, shouldn't the 80's style manner of in-line error-checking be discarded Thanks.   I agree. In pevious language, it wat dificut ...Show All

• Fahad349 Re-Parenting

  I have a SharePoint Services v3 site collection that needs to be re-parented. I keep finding that this is a feature but can't find where you would actually preform the re-parenting. Is this a SharePoint Designer task Yes, how can I move a whole site collection (or subsite) to another existing site collection in WSS3(not MOSS) without using SharePoint Designer. Thanks I heard the re-parenting in this Excel file. http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/d/c/1dc632e8-71e1-466f-8a2f-c940f1438e0a/SharePointProductsComparison.xls I also want to know how re-parenting work in WSS3 To me it's also not clear enough what you would like ...Show All

• jdonahue1971 Single framework for windows forms and web app?

  A business requires same application with two interfaces: i. Web Application for customer orders ii. Windows Forms version for customer orders + additional functionality (for use by sales/corporate users to take phone orders + access to additional screens) Environment: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 .NET Framework 2.0 Is there a framework that can been used for developing both Widnows forms and Web apps Thanks in advance! I agree with the previous reply. That is how I do my apps that need both web/winform UI. But here is another http://www.xamlon.com/ From their site: "Create WinForms applications in C# or VB .NET to deploy anywhere on the web via the MacromediaR FlashR Platform. No previous experi ...Show All

• Herru Perdana don to not use "Inheritance"

  Have anyone try to design with no Inheritance at all I think *Inheritance* is not good as we think. It's force us to somthing we don't need, It's ok in some cases that better to be solved with no need to it. what do you think regards, dotHuman. Yes, absolutely we could have aggregated the context info. We just chose the polymorphic approach to keep the context info declaration out of the descendent objects. It was a style decision, really. Agree with Yoni and want to echo GoF's own words (Gang of Four, the authors of "Design Patterns", 1995, 11 years ago) "Because inheritance exposes a subclass to details of its parent's implementation, it's often said that ...Show All

• Neftali Reyes Index Server combo box greyed out

  Hi I am trying to create 'New Shared Services Provider' on newly installed sharepoint 2007, but combo box is greyed out. How do I assign index server role. Gary and Ishai's reply will fix your problem... you wont actually see a service called Index but if you open the Office Sharepoint Server Search you will find it at the top of the screen there. Recomend you plan your environment also and actually implement this feature on the box that makes most sense for your implementation. Once this is set just go back and finish the SSP install. I generally open another window side by side during this operation when i forget to add the search before i install SSP. in central admin, go to "operations" and "servi ...Show All

• Woyler Create a 'custom' List with Pages

  Hi, I need to create a 'custom' List that will contain Pages (or articles if you want). I can't use the default Page list that's there. How can I go about doing this I need this because I have to have a List with articles that aren't shown on the site as other 'normal' articles. Thanks! First, you dont have to set up a seperate "Pages" library, you can just add a column to the existing one, and filter based on the value the user who created the page put in that column. But to answer your question - just create a new document library, and tell it (when creating) that the default document type should be web part page. Ishai Sagi www.spstips.blogspot.com Hi, I haven't tried the al ...Show All

• amer sohail Using Content Query Web part

  Hi I am using MOSS 2007 RTM version. I want to use CQ web part to display all sites under sitedirectory. What list type should I select while doing this I tried links and custom list but that did not returned any result. Can someone please help me with this Thanks Amit Hi Rene Thanks for your reply. I think you are right, CQWP is not built to query Sites list. Best Regards Amit What is the field type that you are using that is not working Mine is working with a Choice field, but for some reason it's just the straight Text field that is not working. Hi George Thanks for your reply. I looked at the Table of Contents web part. This web part will not help in my req ...Show All

• Jithendrian How do you limit the site templates available for sub sites to Portal or WSS site?

  When creating a sub site to either a portal site or a site colleciton you are presented with a list of templates to choose from. I want to limit this list. Anyone know how I can pick and choose which templates my users see when they try to create a sub site Thanks Chris Fields In sharepoint 2007, the templates are 'features' which can be activated and de-activated using the STSADM.exe tool that comes with sharepoint. You can use this tool to de-activate templates. Another option (also for the 2003 version) is to 'hide' the templates in the list, which can be specified in an XML file on the webserver (WEBTEMP.XML for example). This xml file contains the list of site definitions (the templates) and c ...Show All

• Nuno_Salvado Approach for modeling a class to import/export information

  In my web app (C#), we need to import/export an infinity of txt, xls and xml files. I would appreciate opinions or experiences on how would be an elegant (though easy way) to implement a class/componentto deal with this. BTW, the mechanism will be always the same, that is, import some information from a file (xml, txt or xls) and save it to the database (we are using an ORM), or read some information in DB and export it to a file (xml, txt or xls). I don't think there is a component like that, but you could consider using office itself to do this bit for you. You can then read the data from office. In that case use Access, because reading from excel is in this case only feasable trough COM and that will not perform. If you ca ...Show All

• jljamison IE Crashing when opening Sharepoint list

  When a user tries to open a list in Datasheet view on our sharepoint site they are being welcomed by the nice 'IE Has encountered a problem and needs to close.' Error.  This just started a couple days ago.  This is to the point that I can't open a couple of my administrative lists anymore. We are currently running: WSS v3 MSSQL 2000 Happening on IE 6 AND IE 7 Office 2003 ONLY I have Sharepoint Designer 2007 - This has been installed and used for a couple of weeks before problem arrived. ONLY seems to be happening on Service Pack 2 computers.  I've seen lots of posts about deleting the dll 'OWSSUPP.DLL' when running Office 2007 or uninstalling ALL office 2007 products.  However I am receiving this on seve ...Show All

• Scott Miers 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

• robinjam Inheritance

  I have a Party which can be either a Person or a Company. Implemented with inheritance Party is the super class and Person and Company the subclasses. What to do if I want both the Company and the Person to be able to play the roles of Customer or Partner under different circumstances and I don't want to duplicate information or code Examples: Party A, a Company in the role of Partner sells an order to Party B, a Person in the role of Customer At a later stage Party B, a Person in the role of Partner sells an order to Party C, a Person in the role of Customer and even later Party B, a Person in the role of Partner sells an order to Party D, a Company in the role of Customer In these examples Party B should be able to b ...Show All

• Shaus VB 2005 and SQL Server Express

  Hi I'm new to using 2005, both VB and SQL Server Express. I'm trying to create a program which talks to a database on a server for my friends business (big favour!). His company has about 7 people that work there and each of them will have a copy of the VB app installed which will interface with the database. Personally i have quite a bit of experience with standalone VB apps, but i've never really approached anything of this size before, but I'm trying doing this as a) a favour to my friend and b) to learn VB and Sequel a little better as i'm looking to change my job in a few months time. There are no full time IT staff there, any backups will need to be either done automatically or by an office administrator with limited IT skil ...Show All