What is Sharepoint? Alot more than I thought when I started down the path of learning about Sharepoint products in support of our enterprise content management project. There is alot to learn, so I’ll only be scratching the surface but I wanted to try and show what this product is all about while avoiding the […]
If you find value in creating server-side javascript statements that an ajax callback can simply execute with the EVAL statement, then in the ASP.NET environment you have probably found that to be difficult since .NET objects are named differently on the client than on the server. I started to use a little trick that […]
So I took a quick stab at the ATLAS (asp.net ajax) framework, and I came away with the distinct impression that it is too much for too little. The biggest issue with AJAX in the .NET environment is that the fields you name on the back end have a different name on the front […]
Sharepoint is the next big thing for me at work, and I always end up comparing new things to Domino. So would anyone like to see a series on Sharepoint for Domino Developers?
Mike Golding recently profiled an article from Sitepoint about how good MSN search was, and how we will “Ignore MSN Search at Our Peril”. I use MSN search sometimes to supplement other searches since I know their methods are different, but I was curious as to why Mike had such bizarre results. The reason: […]
Third-party tools, exports to Excel, SVG, VML, and Java applets; these are the tools for the Domino developer who wants to create charts from their Lotus Notes\Domino applications. Wouldn’t be great if you could create chart images dynamically with native code? Probably never going to happen, but you can use .NET to generate […]
As of today, Microsoft now has available express editions of Visual Studio .NET. You can download for free any of these lightweight versions of the .NET development tools:
For Web Development:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
For Windows Development:
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Database Development:
SQL […]
Scenario: Any Domino application that requires reports.
Typical Solution: Create a different view for each report.
Upside: Extremely easy
Downside: High maintenance, performance hit from excessive indexing, and can easily become a navigational nightmare.
A Better way?: Anything where one can build a view on the fly.
If any of you got through .NET for Domino Developers Part 4 […]
Having recently debugged a Domino application that stored RDBMS credentials in the Notes.ini file on the server, I was reminded of a very powerful feature that was built in to the .NET 2.0 platform. That is the ability to encrypt portions of an applications “web.config” file.
We all know that the physical security of […]
A business need has recently forced the issue to create an interface that can read an RDBMS, collate the data, present it for informational purposes, and provide a reporting mechanism to collect errors in the data. Not very unusual requirements, but a good example of how “competing” technologies can be used in tandem, both […]