Post BUILD videos now available online

Post BUILD videos now available online

I just returned from BUILD in Redmond, WA this past week, and I can safely say this was one of the best developer events I have ever attended!  Great content, knowledgeable speakers, an ample supply of relevant vendors, all while networking with other developers from all over the globe.  Definitely worth the trip! You can watch all videos on Channel 9 here, or by visiting http://buildwindows.com.  I’m planning on watching the ones I couldn’t attend due to watching other fantastic…

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Writing to the ULS in SharePoint 2010

Writing to the ULS in SharePoint 2010

Here’s a quick, easy, 3 step method to log your custom events to the ULS while writing a SharePoint 2010 solution: Add a reference to Microsoft.Office.Server (located in C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14ISAPI on your SharePoint server) Add a using statement at the top of your code like so: using Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics; Add the following line wherever you want the message to appear in the ULS PortalLog.LogString(<whatever you want to put in the ULS>) See? That wasn’t so bad!

Hiding View All Site Content and Recycle Bin in SharePoint 2010

Hiding View All Site Content and Recycle Bin in SharePoint 2010

I found a lot of resources online that explain many different ways of doing this, lots of comments saying it worked for them, none of which worked for me.  I even found a tutorial online that explained how to do this using a custom permission, which works, but not when the same users have to have different permissions to underlying objects in the site.  So here’s a method that works at the Master Page level, is customizable, and doesn’t affect…

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Windows 8 on HP Pavilion dv7 laptop

Windows 8 on HP Pavilion dv7 laptop

I’m going to keep track of installs and changes here, in an effort to prepare for the Windows 8 public release to help others support their installs on their machines.  In my case, I’m installing Windows 8 on a VHD on the local HD, then booting to that VHD instead of my core OS.  This way I’m allocating 100% of my system hardware exclusively to that VHD as a partition. Machine Specifications HP Pavilion dv7 laptop AMD Phenom II P860…

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Creating a VHD for multi-boot in Windows 7

Creating a VHD for multi-boot in Windows 7

Been doing this so much lately with all of the flavors of Windows 8, I figured I’d write this down for my own benefit, but also for anyone who’s interested in doing the same. Create a new VHD Go to Start, right-click on Computer and choose Manage Under Storage in the left pane, single-click Disk Management In the Actions pane on the right, click More Actions, then choose Create VHD Specify the location you want to store your VHD file (ex:…

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