Category: How-to
Check in your SharePoint Images
I wrote up an internal how-to/policy for the company I work for, which had text and some images that weren’t showing up. Googling and looking through the options for the document didn’t help. After going through it some more, I found that you need to check in all items [in the Document Center] before it…
Fix for IE crash when opening docs in SharePoint
We use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for sharing and collaborating between departments at work; it’s been working fine except when IE (both v6 and v7) would, most of the time, crash when opening a document, i.e., IE would just exits abnormally. After some investigation, I found that the issue seems to happen when you…
Open command prompt in a specific folder
I had to find another way to open the command prompt in a specific, working folder, and the Windows Key + R, type cmd keystroke was no longer efficient. Thankfully, there’s a way around this – two ways, actually…so here they are: Method #1 – Add a Registry Key Open regedit. (If you don’t know…
CLR has been unable to transition from COM context for 60 seconds
I was debugging an inherited multi-project WinForms application (from my co-worker and friend, Genaro Quismorio) today and came across this error twice (below), which was frustrating, annoying and very unproductive. This error occurred while stepping through a breakpoint [Debug.Break] in my WinForms code while looking for a bug. One fix I found on Google was…
Submitting bugs through BugzScout
I was tasked to develop a proxy-like web interface wherein our company’s Marketing group didn’t have to go to Fogbugz directly. To facilitate this, I wrote an ASP.NET Web Application that submits/POSTs to Fogbugz’s supplied ScoutSubmit.asp. FogBugz is a complete project management system for software teams. Designed by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame,…
Import your OS X address book contacts into Gmail
Have you ever wondered how to do this, well…look no further as I’ll show you. It’s simple really. All you have to do is download AddressBook2CSV Exporter from Antonio Lore‘s website. After installing it, simply do the export, and then import into Gmail, which basically needs a CSV file; however, be forewarned…if some fields are…