Posted in Code, Development, tagged .NET, C# on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Calling the GetResponse() method on the HttpWebRequest class yields some interesting results. It determines that a status code of anything else but 200 (OK) is an exceptional case and throws a WebException exception.
The following code demonstrates how to return the status code even if the URL in the request is not OK.
HttpStatusCode httpStatusCode;
HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = [...]
Posted in Development, Microsoft, Technology, tagged MCP, MCPD, Microsoft Certification on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last month I completed the final exam in the .NET Framework 2.0 Web Developer series to achieve the MCPD. Check my About page to see a list of my current certifications.
Posted in Development, Microsoft, Technology, tagged MCP, MCTS, Microsoft Certification on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week I completed the second of two exams to achieve the MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications certification. This is just one step toward the MCPD: EA certification. Check my About page to see a list of my current certifications.
Posted in Avanade, Code, Development, Microsoft, Technology, tagged Avanade, Microsoft, MOSS, MSDN, patterns & practices, SharePoint, SharePoint guidance, SPG on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance has been released to MSDN!
http://www.microsoft.com/spg
Here are a few of the topics you will find inside:
Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging
Design tradeoffs for decisions many developers encounter, such as whether to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information
Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management [...]
Posted in Avanade, Development, Microsoft, tagged Avanade, Microsoft, Ops Manager, SCOM, SLA on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this year I worked on a project with the Microsoft Solution Accelerator Team to develop what was released as the Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007.
The dashboard is a report that is installed into Operations Manager 2007 and is used to display availability and performance metrics related to SLA thresholds set [...]
Posted in Development, Microsoft, tagged certification, MCP, Microsoft, Microsoft Certification, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday I was able to pass the 70-541 exam to earn the MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Application Development certification. Not only will I be working on my MCPD certification this year, but also the WSS/MOSS certifications. Check my About page to see a list of my current certifications.
Posted in Code, Development, tagged ASP.NET, Microsoft, SharePoint on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I have been doing a lot of ASP.NET development inside of SharePoint. Once area that I have found to be quite tricky, although not SharePoint-specific, is dynamic ASP.NET controls. In particular, managing postbacks when you have dynamic ASP.NET controls.
Here is a link to the source code for a Visual Studio 2008 solution, which demonstrates [...]
Posted in Code, Development, Microsoft, tagged CodePlex, Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second release of SharePoint Guidance from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance team is now published on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/spg.
Updates included in this release:
Refactor code to leverage MVP pattern where applicable.
Refactor SPList-related SharePoint code with the Repository Pattern.
Unit tests for manager and presenter classes using TypeMock.
And much more…
Disclaimer: This will evolve (and change) significantly. At [...]
Posted in Code, Development, Microsoft, tagged Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first release of SharePoint Guidance from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance team is now published on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/spg.
Disclaimer: This will evolve (and change) significantly. At this stage the RI provides a basic set of WSS features with accompanying guidance. This is not a CTP or a BETA.
Stay tuned for new releases about every [...]
Posted in Code, Development, tagged SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow, Visual Studio, WF, Workflow on July 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The addition of SharePoint sequential and state machine workflow project templates to Visual Studio 2008 did wonders for SharePoint workflow developers. Specifying SharePoint Debug Settings that allow you to do a “right-click Deploy” that GACs the DLL, installs and activates a workflow on a SharePoint instance, and associates it with a SharePoint list on that instance [...]
