Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Another Belgian has started a weblog! This time it's Peter Himschoot, a BizTalk expert. Welcome Peter!

For those of you who don’t know the SmartPart for SharePoint; a little introduction: “A SharePoint web part that can host any ASP.NET user control. Create your web parts by using the VS.NET designer instead of coding everything by hand!”

To obtain the complete call stack instead of the default error page, you can alter the web.config file: set the ClassStack value to true in the SharePoint section:
<SafeMode MaxControls="50" CallStack="true"/>

Last week I received the new issue (#5) of “.NET Magazine”, I was happy to see that an article I wrote some time ago is finally published! It’s about how you can fine-tune Visual Studio to be even more productive. In the article I describe a macro to convert the declarations of private fields to public properties. Unfortunately the code of that macro isn’t published. Luckily David Cumps noticed it, he provides a link where a slightly different version (by Fons Sonnemans) can be downloaded.

Note to self: take a look at this: a webpart (!) that generates a RSS feed for a SharePoint site. Thanks Maurice Prather!

I didn't expect it so soon, but it seems V1 of the Information Bridge Framework can be downloaded!

To all of you who missed it: please join us next time! To those who were there: see you next time! Thank you Jelle for making all the practical arrangements. Can you make an “I Was There” button to brag about attending the first .be-geek-dinner?

The avid readers (if I have any of course) of my blog may have noticed that in the last 10 days there wasn’t a single new blog post on this site (I think the longest time ever since my honeymoon!). Well, there’s a reason for that: the last two weeks passed like a real whirlwind. Today I had a presentation on a seminar about Host Integration Server 2004 organised by my employer and Microsoft at a very nice location: Technopolis (if you life in the proximity of Belgium, you should really visit it!). I think the audience was quite impressed by the demo we gave of the project we’re working on right now. Kudos to my project team (especially Tom, William and Hans): you did a great job preparing the bits so I hadn’t any problems (the demo gods were with me)! And my apologies go to Tom because I called him my “demo monkey” on stage. :-)

Further more on the road ahead of my personal life, there are some thrilling challenges waiting which I’ve been planning in the past weeks. More on that real soon! To be continued…