Of Ones and Zeros

Safari for Windows!

Posted on 12. Jun, 2007 by bryan.

Thank you Apple!  I am now one step closer to retiring my 500MHz iBook!

Incase you missed it, you can download it here.  This is definitely not a production build, as I have been running it for less than a day and it has crashed 3 times, but it is very, VERY promising!

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SPLimitedWebPartManager Memory Leak?

Posted on 05. Jun, 2007 by bryan.

Have a look at the following code segment:
while(true)
{
using (SPSite siteCollection =
new SPSite(“http://localhost”))
using (SPWeb site =
siteCollection.OpenWeb(“/Marketing”))
{
SPFolder pagesFolder = site.GetFolder(“Pages”);

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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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