Of Ones and Zeros

Exporting DataView with Custom Parameter

Posted on 30. May, 2007 by bryan.

This past week I have been working with a DataView that needed to filter a list by the title of the PublishingPage containing the DataView web part.  In order to provide this functionality, I created a straight-forward custom parameter:
public class PageTitleParameter : System.Web.UI.WebControls.Parameter{    protected override object Evaluate(System.Web.HttpContext context, System.Web.UI.Control control)    {        SPListItem listItem = SPContext.Current.ListItem;
        if [...]

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Running ASP.NET app within a SharePoint Virtual Server

Posted on 29. May, 2007 by bryan.

For my own development efforts, I use Axosoft’s OnTime product which is free for a single user (yeah!).  I have a single SSL for Axosoft and for my WSS Team Site installation, so I needed for both to coexist peacefully in a single virtual server.  Out of the box Axosoft was throwing several errors, at which point I came across [...]

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Just When You Thought You Knew RDP …

Posted on 23. May, 2007 by bryan.

So you have probably used RDP about 5.1 gajillion times, but then you learn something new that shakes your foundation. Well that is what happened to me this past week when I learned 2 new things with RDP, and I am not ashamed to admit it either! Here goes nothing:

What we are looking [...]

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