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Microsoft's battles with Google

2006-07-17T11:14:00.000-04:00

Disclaimer: This is all my own opinion and not the view of my employer. I've been thinking about the battle between Microsoft and Google, lately. I've come to realize that I'm not sure Microsoft is approaching the battle with Google in the right manner. Microsoft has been very reactive to apps developed by Google and I think it's giving Google the advantage. Microsoft's approach to the market

Windows Vista Glass with NVidia driver set

2006-07-13T10:21:00.001-04:00

I was having a lot of problems getting Aero Glass to run on my Vista drive on my Toshiba Tecra M5. It doesn't make any sense because the video card is a 256 MB video card that supports the WDDM driver necessary to run the Glass interface. I've had several friends have the same problem and after discovering a solution, I thought it was worth blogging. First off, this is by no means a

Moving my blog

2006-05-01T14:39:00.000-04:00

With the advent of joining Micrsoft, a cool perk is the nice Community Server based blogging software. So, I'm moving my blog over to http://blogs.msdn.com/sumanc.

Microsoft bound

2006-04-10T10:54:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm on the job move again. I have taken a position as a Microsoft MCS consultant here in Pittsburgh, PA. Lucky for me, I don't have to move anywhere...yet.I'm sad to leave my friends at CEI's Microsoft practice, but excited at this new venture.Wish me luck!

Creating a Recycle Bin for Windows SharePoint Services WSS/SPS (Part 1)

2006-02-22T11:00:00.000-05:00

In MSDN Magazine, there was an awesome article a few months ago about creating a recycle bin in WSS. However, not all of the information was provided to complete it successfully. This entry fills in the missing information from the MSDN Mag recycle bin article.Configure WSS to allow Web Part ExtensionsTo configure SharePoint, you need to enable event handlers. Go here for configuration

SharePoint Migration utilities

2006-02-21T10:04:00.000-05:00

I've been getting really annoyed with the SharePoint 2003 / WSS migration utilities (StsAdmin and SMigrate). I decided it would be much easier to build a GUI around some of their features. The source code and application are available here:Downloads:Download Exe onlyDownload Exe and source codeScreenshots:The Logon screen allows you to impersonate another user.Main applicationThe application

Super Bowl Bound

2006-01-28T13:35:00.000-05:00

In case you haven't heard, the Steelers are going to the Super Bowl. There's been some controversy regarding the media when Joey Porter noted that the media turned its back on the Steelers, but the fans did not. It's very true. When you look at the players going to the Pro Bowl, most of them are not playing right now. Why isn't Ben Roethlisberger in the Pro Bowl? He has maintained one of the

Denver to go!

2006-01-16T10:41:00.000-05:00

Steelers deserved to win the game. They beat the Colts and they beat the refs bad calls. Ben Rothelisburger was composed, and the defense consistently came up big.Go Steelers!

SharePoint unfriendly URLs Cx notation

2006-01-12T11:38:00.000-05:00

I am working at a client on a SharePoint Portal Server implementation, and the question came up about maintaining friendly URLs in SPS. After a certain number of areas are created, SPS alters the URL to contain a C1,C2,...Cx before the requested area name. This posed a problem because the client wants users to type in:http:///IT for IThttp:///HR for Human ResourcesI found some

Been working on a custom eCommerce system

2006-01-02T11:50:00.000-05:00

Haven’t really had much time to blog lately with the holidays. I’ve been building my own e-commerce tool that’s similar to Commerce Server, but much simpler. My latest site (a Digital Daydream creation) is for a company called Muvmint. Enjoy!

Icons on an Office CommandBar

2005-10-14T17:13:00.000-04:00

I've recently had a problem with loading images in Office CommandBar buttons. I found some information on the web about it, but it was neither complete or it , but I took that information further anyways.First of all, I created a subclass called ImageHost which inherits from AxHostprivate class ImageHost : System.Windows.Forms.AxHost{ public ImageHost() : base("59EE46BA-677D-4d20-BF10-

Cross-browser script for LinkList Collections

2005-08-17T21:14:00.000-04:00

I really wanted to have the ability to make collections in JavaScript:function LinkedItem() { this.Item = null; this.NextItem = null;}function Collection() { var _root = new LinkedItem(); var _currentItem = _root; var _resetEnumerator = true; var INDEX_OUT_OF_RANGE = "Index out of range."; this.Current = function() { return _currentItem.Item; }; this.Add =

Been away for a while...

2005-08-05T21:01:00.000-04:00

I haven't had time to write any blog entries since the project I'm working is all NDA. Unfortunately, the project is written all in C which isn't the best for a .NET geek who loves his C's sharpened. There's always that project you wish you didn't have to do... This is that project that no .NET programmer would ever want.

Pittsburgh .NET User's Group Summer Slam

2005-07-24T16:05:00.000-04:00

Went to the Pittsburgh .NET User's Group SummerSlam party on Wednesday night and had a blast. Guys from the CEI office and Microsoft were there including John McClelland and Stan Spotts.Too bad we couldn't get Matt Trevors and Geoff Tewksbury didn't show up...

Finished the MCAD.NET

2005-06-28T20:01:00.000-04:00

I passed my 70-320 Web Services exam and achieved my MCAD today! It's my goal to take the security and solutions framework over the next few weeks and finish the MCSD

Winforms exam down! 3 to go!!!

2005-06-24T14:05:00.000-04:00

I passed my WinForms MCSD exam today! Woo hoo!!! 3 more exams to go to complete my MCSD.

SQL Server 2005 Training

2005-06-16T15:05:00.000-04:00

I went to Columbus, OH to learn what I don't already know about SQL Server 2005 last week. I was really excited to go because I wanted to see some real examples of using the SQL Service broker and experiment with a mentor doing CLR and XML stuff in SQL. Unfortunately, the hands-on training was just having a laptop and a book that told me exactly what to type in and monitor the result--of which

Finishing Commerce Server site

2005-06-11T21:53:00.000-04:00

I'm finishing up another Commerce Server site this week. I had the worst DTC issues because the client is using a firewall that isn't allowing Commerce Server's DCOM components to create transactions. So a call to Basket.SaveAsOrder caused the application to fail.Finally, I decided to rewrite the base functionality of the SaveAsOrder function storing the order in the Order* tables using only SQL

NTeam

2005-05-31T21:03:00.000-04:00

Today, I joined the NTeam project where I'll be working with a friend of mine, Ron Buckton on a competitive open source system. Seems like a lot of fun, but we're still in the planning phase. I say "we" as though I've been working with these guys for a while, and yet I just signed on today.

VS.NET 2005 Team System Training

2005-05-30T18:36:00.000-04:00

I got to go to a VS.NET Team System Training seminar on Friday. It was pretty cool, but you could definitely tell it was still beta. I've been playing with 2.0 framework and Whidbey for almost 8 months now and been following it since the whitepapers, so I've been close to the development side, but I haven't really paid much attention to the Team Foundation Server.Anyways, it was fun to play

If people only knew the power of the UserControl...

2005-05-19T08:44:00.000-04:00

It's come to my attention that a lot of people don't understand the power of ASP.NET databinding and using server and user controls efficiently. So I've put together a few tips on making better use of these two demons.1. User controls are controls. You can create properties in them, and as long as they are public, they are accessible to the parent control in the ASPX page. This gives you the

Working on extensible inventory system

2005-05-16T10:02:00.000-04:00

I started working on an extensible inventory tracking system this weekend. It will integrate with my already existent content management system and my upcoming extensible shopping cart system.The idea is to build an application that has plug points for additional functionality that can be easily implemented. The complexity in this is that I want there to be an infinite number of plug points

Neural networks

2005-05-02T10:37:00.000-04:00

Figured I'd post a link to something cool. Here's an article that showed up in MSDN mag last month on writing a simple neural network which I would have figured would be written in either C++ or C#--it was written in VB.http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/NeuralNetworks

First day at CEI

2005-03-14T18:01:00.002-05:00

Well, I started working at CEI, today. I'm excited because I've already been thrown into the fire of a Commerce Server project. Seems like I will even get to implement some extensions of the new Enterprise Library (probably just logging and data), but it will be fun to get one under my belt.

NetSig Controls available

2005-03-04T16:41:00.000-05:00

I never got around to posting that the controls and tools Ron Buckton and I presented in the Feb. Cleveland .NET SIG are all availble for download at:http://www.bennettadelson.com/technicalresources/presentations.aspxThe title was ASP.NET 2.0 I Want it Now!!!To see the controls in action, you can toy with them at my site here:http://www.aspnetgeek.com/NetSig_2-8-05/There is one bug that you will