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• Inside the SharePoint People Picker

  SharePoint provides a handy control commonly known as a "people picker" that allows users to search for and select users defined at some specified scope. This control is normally associated with Personnel field in a SharePoint List. However... Posted May 01 2008, 12:49 PM by DavidWise with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• SharePoint Dev Tip - Restart the Timer

  The SharePoint Timer service is handy for what it does but it occasionally gets very hungry and devours hundreds of megs of RAM and keeps it for hours.  This isn't a problem on most production environments because of the memory those machines... Posted Mar 25 2008, 12:00 PM by DavidWise with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• Vital Hotfix for Sluggish Design View in Visual Studio 2008

  Microsoft has released a Hotfix for the incredibly annoying performance issues when working in the Design view of an Asp.Net form that contained custom user controls. The installation info is on the MSDN Blog and is pretty self explanatory.  It takes... Posted Feb 13 2008, 04:55 PM by DavidWise with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development

• The Battle for Nothing... or is it Null?

  I have worked in numerous programming languages and the one thing that I find most irritating is that every language feels the need to reinvent Nothing - literally - and then applies their own rules to it. In VB, Nothing is Nothing .  In C# and JavaScript... Posted Jan 31 2008, 09:33 PM by DavidWise with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development

• Bloat or Evolution?

  A slightly different perspective on software bloat Posted Nov 02 2007, 06:26 PM by DavidWise with | with no comments Filed under: General, Development

• The Value of a TestApp

  The single greatest programming I've ever received is this: Use test apps religiously . In this world of Nunit and the like, perhaps I should explain what I mean by test apps. What is a test app? A test app is simply the absolute smallest amount of... Posted Apr 16 2007, 07:10 PM by DavidWise with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development

• One .Master to Rule Them All (Two, actually)

  One of the biggest annoyances with Sharepoint 2007 is the quirky things you have to do in order to customize a site. This is especially true when it comes to custom master pages. You create a stunning master page in Designer, configure the site to use... Posted Jan 08 2007, 06:23 PM by DavidWise with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint, Development