Weblog Jan V
Update Orchard theme using SQL statement if the UI does not work anymore
If you create a theme for Orchard, it’s only a matter of time before you stumble across a yellow screen of death. I know this, because it happened multiple times to me. One of the reasons for … more
Getting the Orchard archive to work in your blog
A few months ago I decided to migrate my weblog from SharePoint to Orchard, because it’s more lightweight and better suited as a simple blog. I also started to develop some custom modules and themes … more
ForeFront TMG does not work after Windows Updates (Internet Explorer 9.0)
A few weeks ago I was finally able to install some updates on my ForeFront TMG server, so I installed SP1 of Windows Server 2008R2, all other updates and Internet Explorer 9.0. After noticing my … more
Creating a developer SSL certificate on IIS 6.0
It’s one of those things you need to do once and forget about it. Sometimes it’s necessary to develop something which required talking to a webservice. A lot of the times, the webservice is secured … more
Technical documentation: how and what to write
In the past couple of years I’ve written quite a lot of documentation, be it functional, technical, help files for end-users, flyers, proposals and much more. Most developers I know try to avoid … more
Expression trees, delegates, functors how and why to use them
As of two weeks ago I’ve had the privilege to start doing some development work in a project where a lot of expression trees are used and most classes have at least one implementation of a Func … more
SharePoint and the Local Activation permission on DCOM objects on 2008R2
Another SharePoint farm installation, another problem. I had to install SharePoint 2007 (don’t ask…..) on a Windows Server 2008R2 development machine. This is quite doable, as long as you install … more
Saving files from the web
A few weeks ago I had to create an application which would download files from several SharePoint libraries. I had just done a similar thing for a Windows Phone 7 application, so I could reuse most of … more
New desktop setup
It’s been about 8 or 9 years since I’ve bought a new desktop system for myself. You can imagine the desktop I had was pretty antique and didn’t run the newest software quite well. Running Windows 7 on … more
Decrypting encrypted data in config file
This is something which has been available in the .NET Framework since, well, forever. I’m talking about encrypting data in the config file of your (web)application. Every time I studied for the … more