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 Service pack 2 of SharePoint. I figured it would be no problem and just another install, like I’ve done a gazillion times before.
Everything went quite well and because of the SSD disk, the installation didn’t take as long as I was used to.
Read more →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 the code.
After running the application I received an awkward exception message which said: “This stream does not support seek operations”. This exception was triggered by the following code snippet:https://
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Read more →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 the Pentium 4 @ 3.2GHz and a ATI Radeon 9800XT was a pain. Even running Windows XP SP3 was a starting to be a bit too much for the system. Most of the time I’m buying a system I don’t need to upgrade too much in the future, perhaps some extra memory, but that’s about it.
Read more →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 Microsoft developer exams I was reminded on this feature and thought “Hey, I really should use this in the next project”. Up until now I’ve never used this feature though.
The project I’m currently working on has some setup which encrypts the the config file when it’s deployed.
Read more →Al een aantal jaar drinken we thuis koffie uit de Philips Senseo die we hebben gekregen. Een ideaal apparaat om en snel kopje koffie mee te zetten. Toch vonden we de smaak al sinds de eerste keer niet echt super (understatement)
Bij een klant waar ik nu zit hebben ze sinds kort een redelijk luxe espresso appraat staan en de koffie die daar uit komt is enorm lekker. Nu wilde ik dit thuis ook wel graag hebben, dus was ik op zoek gegaan naar die apparaten.
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