Category: Microsoft
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…
VS.NET 2005 Web Application Projects vs. Web Site Projects
In the first release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft introduced a new web application model called the Web Site Project for C#, which had many differences with the old model. Riots ensued, and in VS 2005 SP1 they were forced to introduce the Web Application Project for C# that worked much the way the…
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…
Vista Service Pack 1 details
Microsoft today released details about the upcoming first service pack (SP1) for Vista. They say it features security upgrades, improved performance, and support for emerging (read: new) hardware and standards. It doesn’t look like it will be released to the general public yet, but only to a moderate sized audience. They say it will be…