SSRS 2008 functionality in IE9, IE10

SSRS 2008 functionality in IE9, IE10

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…

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Update SQL table with SharePoint Excel file data automatically

Update SQL table with SharePoint Excel file data automatically

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…

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SharePoint 2010 compatibility in IE9

SharePoint 2010 compatibility in IE9

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…

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Connecting a SharePoint 2010 List to external database table

Connecting a SharePoint 2010 List to external database table

I’ve done this plenty of times and never documented it, and one of these times I’m going to be working on something else, have to build one real quick, and forget how I did it, so i’m writing it down. You can have a SharePoint 2010 List that connects to an external database table and perform CRUD operations on it, and it’s not that difficult to do. There’s generally speaking 3 specific steps required. First, decide if you want to…

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Surface RT Metro apps won’t launch

Surface RT Metro apps won’t launch

Just the other day I applied the most recent mandatory firmware update to my Surface RT, and let it restart. I thought nothing of it until this morning when I tried launching my usual morning apps (Bible, check metrics on my apps, etc), and they wouldn’t launch. The only apps that would launch were Desktop, IE and my app I developed that’s already in the store. My initial thought was to run Refresh, but it wouldn’t launch since it’s part…

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