Ensure Infopath Forms open in browser

Here’s a good way to ensure all of your Infopath Forms open in a browser, no matter where they’re linked from:

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/koning53/archive/2009/06/10/ensuring-infopath-forms-to-open-in-forms-services.aspx

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New site

A site I’ve been developing for my wife’s uncle’s business just went live:  tateinsurancegroup.com.

Pretty standard site so far.  The one cool thing is it was done using Umbraco, an open-source ASP.Net CMS system.   There were a few hiccups I encountered when first getting the site setup, but it’s proven to be a very capable CMS solution.  I would absolutely consider it in the future.

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Vista/Server 2008 Not Shutting Down

This is mostly for my purposes…

If you’re having trouble with Vista/Server 2008 not shutting down, try running:

fsutil resource setautoreset true C:\

and then restarting your computer.  This resets the NTFS transaction logs on your C: drive which apparently can become corrupted.  As a bonus, I think it sped up start-up as well…

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Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint Server 2007

Helpful article just posted:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638968.aspx

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Handy Regular Expressions

While working on a Sharepoint css file, I was able to use a nift regex instead of copying and pasting all over the place.

The tag I had looked like this:

#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 td h3 a

I wanted to add a tag on the end so that it looked like this:

#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 td h3 a, #MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ5 td h3 a

I used this Regex in Sharepoint Designer to do so:

Find

#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 {.*$}

Replace

#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 \1, #MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ5 \1

The “\1″ is called a “Tagged Expression”.  It refers to the part of the value that is tagged in the “Find” syntax.  You tag something using brackets, so in this case “.*$” was tagged, which corresponded to this part of the result ” td h3 a”.  I had about 10 of these, so this saved me a lot of time.

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.Net Logging Framework

Found a fantastic logging framework for .Net:

http://www.theobjectguy.com/dotnetlog/

It’s very lightweight, has a ton of loggers already defined, and is easily extensibile.  The feature that drew me to it was the ability to log to multiple places at once and to filter what type of entry gets logged to each location.  For instance, I wanted to log everything to a text file but only log exceptions to the Windows Event Log.  With this framework, it was no problem.

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SharePoint Webpart Styling

I always wondered how to style a single webpart on the page.

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx

Been dealing with CSS for a long time and never knew about attribute selectors.  Only issue is you can’t be in Quirks mode, which does mess up the rendering of some elements in SharePoint.

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