If you attended my session on Connecting a SharePoint list to a SQL table for CRUD ops, thank you for coming! If you missed it, or if you wanted to review it again, my girlfriend was kind enough to record it for everyone! The projector can be difficult to see due to room lighting, but you can always follow along with the slide deck. Both are included in this post: Slide deck
Today I installed Windows 8.1 RTM on my Surface Pro, and so far I’m pretty happy. I decided to list what I believe to be some pros and cons to consider when updating your Windows 8 system: Pros: Mail app has improved significantly. Ability to easily select more than one message by either long-pressing or right-clicking, or by checking the checkboxes next to each item. Also appearance is closer to Outlook.com’s look and feel. Setup prompted me to either keep…
Seems lately browsers update faster than the web solutions, or at least faster than we can update the web solutions to keep up with the browser changes. Maybe it’s just me… Regardless, my company very heavily relies upon custom reporting. Since there were numerous changes in the way IE9 and IE10 render JavaScript DOM objects and other elements, things like SSRS and SharePoint start “breaking”. I recently handled an update enterprise-wide to IE9 by having to modify SharePoint 2010’s compatibility…
This is probably an extremely rare circumstance, so I’m writing it down so I don’t forget how I did this. I recently built a simple solution for my company called “Work & Win”. Basically it’s a slot machine game that allows one random employee per day to win a variety of pre-determined prizes. Initially, I set up the prizes table in the database so it could be managed through a web UI, which means the application reads from the database…
SharePoint 2010 is not fully compatible with IE9. To the best of my knowledge this is due to SharePoint’s heavy dependency upon DOM expandos and other features which were available through IE8, but are all removed from IE9. Controls like the Rich TextBox and People Picker tend to render improperly, throw errors on postback, etc. Fortunately, M_Olson posted a JavaScript mod that worked perfectly for me! It looks like this: function ConvertEntityToSpan(ctx, entity) {ULSGjk:; if(matches[ctx]==null) matches[ctx]=new Array(); var key=entity.getAttribute(“Key”); var…