QNH helpt haar klanten met Business Integratie vraagstukken. Onder andere door slimme applicaties te ontwikkelen. Om te bewijzen dat we doen wat we zeggen te doen, organiseren we in januari weer een RAD Race®. Deze onafhankelijke programmeerwedstrijd verplicht je snelle, maar doordachte keuzes te maken en alles uit je  ontwikkel toolset te halen. Hierbij kan iedere software development tool gebruikt worden. Uiteindelijk gaat het niet om wat een tool beloofd te doen, maar wat het oplevert…

Dus. Ben jij de beste ontwikkelaar van ons land? Doe dan mee om dat te bewijzen!

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 Had a really great time at Tech-Ed europe this year. Thanks to Schuberg Philis for doing the Dutch "Back To The Future" County Drink, it rocked.

Some of the sessions I visited and liked, you should watch these videos at Tech-ed Online:

Great session by Dino Esposito about Design considerations when building ASP.Net MVC applications

http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/WEB402

Whats new in ASP.Net MVC 3 by Jonathan Carter @lostintangent

http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/WEB309

Nice OData session to get started

http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/DEV203

And one to deep dive into the previous session

http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/DEV312

This article lists the aliasses you can use in visual studio when searching with a regular expression.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs(VS.80,ide).aspx

For example  if you want to find all guids in your solution

• CTRL-SHFT-F (find in files)
• Entire Solution
• check the Use Regular Expressions box
• type in the find box :h^8-:h^4-:h^4-:h^4-:h^12
• go

Article about how to add a "Get PublicKeyToken" menu item in Visual Studio

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/miah/archive/2008/02/19/visual-studio-tip-get-public-key-token-for-a-stong-named-assembly.aspx

Basic steps:

• Tools --> External tools..
• Title: Get PublicKeyToken
• Command: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\SN.exe
• Arguments: -T $(TargetPath)
• Check Options: Use Output window

Make sure you build your project before using this new tool.
I love this, and think it should be added on every developers machine.

Today, I was looking for a song in my music collection. Because the collection has grown quite a bit lately I could really find the file I was looking for.
I did know it was a 192 kbps file, and the artist name. After a bit of searching the web, I found the following options for windows search that you can use in the search bar.
Using these features, I found the file instantly.

Property   Usage
bitrate      bitrate:>150kbps
artist        artist:U2
year         year:1977..1987
year         year:>1980<1990
album      album:"greatest hits"
genre       genre:rock
lyrics        lyrics:"one"
track        track:12
  
 These are just the music search options. The following page contains all the possible options.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx

I've been using the beta an RC version of Visual Studio 2010 for a while.
Yesterday VS2010 was offically released.

Take a look if there is a launchparty near your location.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/visual-studio-events

Enjoy.

Together with 3 colleagues from QNH Business Integration I am currently finishing implementing a already NEN 2082 certified project based on SharePoint 2010.
When SharePoint 2010 hits RTM there will be another audit for this version of SharePoint, because currently the pre release version has been certified.

NEN 2082 is a Dutch standard which is similar the DoD5015 and MoReq standards.

This project was done for the Gemeente Nieuwegein, which is a Dutch local Government.

For this project we have also been nominated for the “Innovation of the year” award:

More information (Dutch)

My colleagues at QNH:

• Jeffrey Tummers - http://blog.thumnet.com
• Alexander Ketelaar – http://sharepoint2010.nl
• Robert Sep

Last week, I removed my VS2010 beta installation and installed VS2010 RC. The RC is much more stable, and as a bonus renaming a feature in a SP2010 project now works.
We have been building lots of features lately, and I was very pleasantly surprised to see this bug already fixed.

Alexander Ketelaar (www.sharepoint2010.nl) found the following list of known SP2010 beta 2 issues.

http://officebeta.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/microsoft-office-servers-beta-2-known-issuesreadme-HA101267292.aspx?CTT=1

A really nice (and funny) article why you should not do this, by Tyler Holmes.

http://blog.tylerholmes.com/2008/10/don-set-your-sharepoint-app-to-full.html

I came across this article because we had an assembly containing a feature reciever that would cause an error when executed.
Assemblies containing feature recievers should always go in the GAC (by design), but we where creating a custom policy.

So, I agree with Tyler that custum policies are still preferable, but when you have a dll that contains a feature reciever, you should just put it in the GAC.

Free download of Powerpoint slides, demos, video's and example code of around 40 .net courses.

http://dotnet-u.com/Courses.aspx

Enjoy.

Phil Haack just posted about REST and ASP.NET MVC.
He explains why the WCF team at Microsoft has put together an SDK and samples for building REST services using ASP.NET MVC.

The post can be found at: http://haacked.com/archive/2009/08/17/rest-for-mvc.aspx

I'll be giving this SDK a go, and keep you updated on my findings.

You might also want to take a look at this article about building a WCF REST client: http://damianm.com/tech/building-a-rest-client-with-wcf/

Today I came across a iPhone app that enables you to browse SharePoint from your iPhone.
Haven't tried it myself because I use a windows mobile phone, but might be usefull for all you out there.

http://www.spyk.com/Products/iShare/Pages/iShare.aspx

Just thought I'd share...

Lockdown mode is a feature that you can use to secure published sites. When lockdown mode is turned on, fine-grain permissions for the limited access permission level are reduced. The following table details the default permissions of the limited access permission level and the reduced permissions when lockdown mode is turned on.

Enable lockdown

Disable lockdown

A little more than a year ago Bill English wrote a post about 3th party MOSS tools that I just came across.
It's an old post, but still a nice read if you are interested in adding functionality to your MOSS deployment in one of the following categories:

1. Collaboration
2. Security, User Account Management and Permissions Management
3. Search and Relevance
4. Workflows
5. Document Administration
6. Upgrade and Moving Content

The post can be found here: http://admincompanion.mindsharp.com/BillBlog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=75