As Microsoft have just announced the new SharePoint 2010 exams they have also provided a 15% discount on the current MOSS 2007 MCTS exams. MOSS 2007 is going to be around for a long while yet so I took up the discount offer and booked up an exam wh ...[Read More]

Registered to attend the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles in November. Hoping to learn a lot about programming for Windows 7 and Server R2 and also want to get a lot more knowledge on Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0. Lo ...[Read More]

I have a requirement for a project I'm working on to make all strings in the UI of a SharePoint 2007 site localized. The problem was that the rest of the site collection needed to stay in English, this meant all the system and admin pages needed to ...[Read More]

Microsoft have released a site for SharePoint 2010 that has some videos with overviews of the new stuff coming in the next version of SharePoint. The videos cover both features for I.T. Pros and Developers so head over to the site and check them o ...[Read More]

This is my first blog post since February which is rubbish but I've been so busy with work and stuff in my personal life like getting married I just haven't had the time. I've been working on a pretty big Web Content Management system for a large co ...[Read More]

When deploying a web application across your organizations hosting environments you need to make sure you make the correct modifications to your web.config on each environment. Currently with Visual Studio 2008 this means hand modifying each web.co ...[Read More]

A while back I decided to build a website for allowing people to post free classified advertisements for pets and animals; I decided to use ASP.Net 2.0 with AJAX Extensions and SQL Server 2005. User registration and authentication was done using ...[Read More]

When creating custom content types inside your features or site definitions you need to specify field definitions to define your custom fields. I was trying to create a Enhanced Rich Text field within my Content Type but was struggling to find the ...[Read More]

After giving up on twitter a while back I've decided to give it another go so I have signed up for a new account (I couldn't get my old one back). If you want to follow me my username is leejdale. I am using the Twitterific client application for O ...[Read More]

I read an article today over at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intranet_design.html which details the 10 best intranets of 2009 (or should that be 2008?). The article had an interesting excerpt which outlines the growing use of SharePoint in the top ...[Read More]