Miscellaneous Debris
Avner Kashtan's Frustrations and Exultations
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Preventing Outlook from closing with Alt-F4
I have come to the realization, at some point, that I never want to close Outlook. Really, there's no reason for me to shut it down except when doing something special, like freeing every … more
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Customizing MOSS Page Title
Another odd client request that came in a while ago. When we browse our Sharepoint site, IE's title reads "Home - My Site Name - Windows Internet Explorer". We can't find any way to remove the " … more
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Dependency Injection and a new version of RhinoMocks
I'm a relative latecomer to the unit-testing business, and only got to play with Mocking frameworks in my last project. After testing several frameworks, we opted on RhinoMocks for emulating our … more
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Reflecting over an Event
A coworker (Hey, Evgeny!) came to me with a puzzler today. He has an object that exposes an event, and he wants to know whether he's already subscribed to that event. Two things immediately came … more
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Sharepoint Extensions for Visual Studio - released!
Finally, we have a full, RTM version of the Visual Studio extensions! The download page says March 15th, but I haven't seen anyone mention it around yet - could it be just me that missed the boat? I … more
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Session Error with Reports Center under MOSS 2007 - Not what you expect
Ran into a problem with a client today. They installed MOSS 2007 and created a publishing portal, but then decided to erase the Reports Center, since they had no use for it. A few days later, … more
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Sharepoint Extensions for Visual Studio 2005
Any news on when a new release of the extensions are due? The state of the current tools is downright abyssmal. Even ignoring the requirement to run VS on the Sharepoint server machine, half the … more
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Word 2007 and Sharepoint Workflows
I've got a couple of questions about Word 2007 integration with Sharepoint 2007, and several problems that occur because of it: The Mysterious Checked-Out Error Let's say I have a workflow attached … more
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"Trial Expired" errors in unexpected places.
I've installed MOSS 2007 RTM on a couple of test VPCs here, using the 180-day trial version. Everything worked fine until I tried to create a new page in my Publishing Portal - suddenly … more
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MOSS Workflows are versioned
I was asked today about MOSS's behavior when workflows are changed midstream. Say I have a document library with a Workflow attached to it, start a few long-running (non-immediate) workflows, then … more