New Blog, Hello Gatsby!
September 28, 2023Hello blog! The last entry I wrote in this blog was just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit us all. Whew, it seems like it was ages ago. A lot…
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HTTP Redirect with non-ASCII characters in the URL
February 07, 2020Another day, another small learning. SITUATION I have been extending ASP.NET Core REST API service that returns redirect (HTTP 301) results…
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Static Initializers in C#: A Cautionary Tale
January 03, 2020I have been chasing a weird bug in a solution I've been working on. The insight on how certain C# feature work by design, which I got after…
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Materials from my Azure AD Session at NetCoreConf Barcelona 2019
February 01, 2019Last Saturday I attended the NetCoreConf Barcelona, a free conference dedicated to .NET Core and related technologies. I spoke about the key…
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La triste realidad de los eventos técnicos: el no-show
July 24, 2018Desde hace unos años observo una tendencia en los eventos técnicos a los que asisto o los que colaboro a organizar. Esta tendencia es la…
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How to Create a Graph Schema Extension using Graph Explorer
July 04, 2018I've been doing a lot of SPFx, NET Core and Office 365 related development and I have several stories to share. During the implementation of…
Back to Blog
June 29, 2018It has been more than a year that I have written on this site. I could bring all kind of excuses. The newly found paternity has taken a toll…
SharePoint Lookup Field Throttling Causes Missing Fields in CSOM Query
February 12, 2017A very annoying bug appeared few weeks ago in one of our production environments with SharePoint 2013. SYMPTOMS You have a custom list with…
De buenos propósitos cara al 2017
January 05, 2017Tenía la intención de escribir un post resumen del año 2016, pero los posts de los compañeros como Marc Rubiño o Yeray han tenido que ver en…
Programar para SharePoint hoy (I): el legado
December 21, 2016En esta serie de posts intentaré hacer un resumen de las posibles opciones que tiene un desarrollador (o desarrolladora) para programar una…
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Las mujeres, la informática, la diversidad....
September 26, 2016Después de "liarla" un poco parda este verano con las opiniones incómodas sobre la diversidad en la comunidad técnica y el "círculo interno"…
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SharePoint Saturday Barcelona 2016
September 18, 2016Después de organizar el primer SharePoint Saturday Barcelona el año pasado, y colaborar en la organización del SharePoint Saturday Madrid es…
Playing with NDepend
July 24, 2016Few days ago I used NDepend tool to analyze the code of one of our bigger projects in Sogeti. Here are my thoughts on the tool. NDepend is a…
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The "Inner Circle" syndrome and MVP Program
July 21, 2016After an overwhelming response to my last week post about the lack of diversity and inclusion in the technical communities, I wanted to…
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The dark, hidden side of our technical communities
July 11, 2016For a long time now, I’ve been wishing to write about the gender and diversity gap in the technical community. Today felt like that day, so…
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¿Cómo me mantengo al día de la información técnica?
June 23, 2016Mucha gente me ha preguntado como consigo estar al día de las novedades tecnológicas del mundillo SharePoint/NET/Web/JS sin morir en el…
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UpdatePanel Troubles with SharePoint 2013
June 02, 2016Few weeks ago I had a nasty bug on customer premises where a combination of SharePoint 2013 and ASP.NET UpdatePanel control resulted in some…
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"Jotasón" y la (mala) pronunciación de términos informáticos
April 15, 2016Los que me conocen saben que soy un poco Grammar Nazi. Lo reconozco, me gusta corregir la ortografía o la pronunciación en inglés cuando se…
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Speaking at SharePoint Konferenz Erding 2016
March 11, 2016Last week I was in Germany, in the little village of Erding (near Munich), delivering two sessions at SharePoint Konferenz 2016. It was a…
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Hablando de Reactive Extension en DotNetSpain 2016
March 06, 2016La semana pasada estuve participando en la mayor conferencia de .NET que se hace en España: la DotNetSpain Conference 2016. Este año se…
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Creative Uses of IDisposable
January 30, 2016We all know IDisposable interface in NET Framework. It is used to signal to any object with dependencies to other objects when should it…
Book Review of "Debugging Teams" and "Exercises for Programmers"
December 17, 2015In the last couple of weeks I've been reading two books that I hoped would help me with my role as a practice lead. One of them is "Debuggi…
Talking about Claims and Claim Providers at ESPC15 in Stockholm
November 21, 2015Last week I was in Stockholm for the annual European SharePoint Conference 2015. A little bit tired after being in USA for MVP Summit the…
Learn Building Highly Scalable Applications in Azure
September 14, 2015In the first half of this year I've been busy producing a new course for Pluralsight, called "Building Highly Scalable Web Applications in…
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SharePoint 2016 y las expectativas
August 25, 2015Como ya muchos sabéis, SharePoint 2016 IT Preview está disponible para descarga desde ayer, 24 de agosto de 2015. Con ello, han empezado a…
Galileo and SharePoint (via Azure) at SPS London 2015
July 12, 2015Yesterday (July 11th) I was presenting at the very first SharePoint Saturday London. The SPS event was very well organized by Peter Baddeley…
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CEUS by Iberian SharePoint Conference 2015
June 13, 2015El día 9 y 10 de junio se celebró la conferencia CEUS by Iberian SharePoint Conference 2015, en las oficinas de Microsoft en La Finca…
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Hablando de herramientas de desarrollo SharePoint
May 12, 2015En el First Monday de mayo los miembros de SUG.CAT nos reunimos para hablar de las herramientas de desarrollo en nuestros proyectos de…
New Professional Adventure at Sogeti
May 05, 2015I have been unusually silent on Twitter and on this blog in the last few weeks. The reason is that I have left Spenta / Beezy, after two…
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The Evolution of the Intranet Home Page
April 16, 2015I have been thinking lately of the evolution I witnessed in the corporate intranets working on many SharePoint projects. In this post I'm…
Organizando el primer SharePoint Saturday Barcelona
April 02, 2015En los últimos meses desde SUG.CAT estamos inmersos en la organización del primer evento en el formato de SharePoint Saturday. Desde hace…
SharePoint MVP Renewal Hat-Trick
April 01, 2015As it happens with the last Fool's Days, I got the email from Microsoft that congratulate me on being (re)awarded the Most Valuable…
Azure App Services and SharePoint 2016
March 25, 2015Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of Azure App Services, a new high-level grouping of services for building apps on Azure cloud…
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Evento de SUG.CAT sobre formularios en SharePoint
March 24, 2015Este sábado 21 de marzo de 2015 hicimos el primer evento trimestral del año desde nuestro grupo de usuarios de SharePoint de Catalunya SUG…
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Detect Popup Window Closing in Lightswitch
March 23, 2015My last adventure with Lightswitch was trying to detect when a popup window inside a screen is closed. You can close a Lightswitch popup…
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SharePoint App Catalog And Missing Apps
March 19, 2015Another weird SharePoint app bug happened yesterday. The solution was fairly easy once you know what's going on, but it's just weird…
Personal Branding for Developers Talk at MVP Open Day 2015
March 16, 2015Last Friday, March 13th, I had the opportunity to speak about personal branding for developers at the Microsoft MVP Open Day for Spain…
Lightswitch Deep Linking and Navigation in SharePoint Dialog Frame
March 08, 2015Another one of my strange adventures with Lightswitch has made me look deep inside the navigation framework that Lightswitch uses. I will…
Lightswitch Custom Validation Refresh
March 04, 2015I found an odd problem this week in a SharePoint-enabled Lightswitch HTML Client application. I am sharing the solution here in case there…
What I Learned at SharePoint Saturday Stockholm
February 20, 2015As I mentioned in my previous post, last weekend was well spent with the SharePoint Saturday crowd in Stockholm, Sweden. In this post I want…
SharePoint Code Maintainance and Unit Testing Talk at SPS Stockholm
February 17, 2015Last weekend I have attended another SharePoint Saturday, this time in Stockholm. The weather was nicer than the last year, and the…
What to Expect from SharePoint 2016
February 06, 2015Well, it has been doubted lately but Microsoft has finally spilled the beans on the next on-premise version of SharePoint. Office General…
Modelo de apps en detalle (IV): Construyendo una app High-Trust
February 03, 2015En la última entrega de esta serie de posts sobre el modelo de apps en detalle, hablé de las aplicaciones Low-Trust y aplicaciones High…
Welcome back / Bienvenidos de nuevo
January 20, 2015I have been busy for the last few days migrating my blogs to a new platform, as you can see. In this post I will summarize what I have…
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Where Are You Going, SharePoint?
January 16, 2015I would like to do a short retrospective look to the rapidly-changing landscape of SharePoint in the last few years, followed by a personal…
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Apps de SharePoint vs Apps de Office 365
January 05, 2015En estos últimos días hay un debate calentito sobre el futuro del modelo de apps de SharePoint. El día 22 de diciembre el gran gurú…
High-Trust SharePoint Apps, Token Lifetime and MemoryCache
December 16, 2014In the last months I have been busy working on a project that includes high-trust on-premises SharePoint 2013 app that is accessed by many…
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Business Value of Social Computing (III)
September 22, 2014Welcome to the third installment of the business value of social computing post series. You can review the first and the second post of the…
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Modelo de apps en detalle (III): High-Trust
August 27, 2014En los primeros dos posts de esta serie hemos visto la evolución del código personalizado en SharePoint y la arquitectura básica del modelo…
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Modelo de apps en detalle (II): Las piezas
August 21, 2014En el primer post de esta serie sobre el modelo de apps de SharePoint 2013, expliqué la problemática de tener código a medida en SharePoint…
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Modelo de apps en detalle (I): Introducción
August 19, 2014Hola a todos, En un reciente proyecto me he visto involucrado en mucho detalle en el modelo de apps de SharePoint 2013 en entornos…
Checking for User Permissions and Getting UnauthorizedAccessException
August 18, 2014In a recent project I have been writing code to check if an arbitrary user can create new documents in certain document libraries. In order…
Access Denied with RunWithElevatedPrivileges
June 29, 2014A strange situation happened to me few days ago, when checking a portion of SharePoint 2013 server-side code on a custom form. Basically, it…
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Business Value of Social Computing (II)
June 10, 2014Note: This is a second post in the series. You can check the first post to refresh the concepts. In the first post I have defined what…
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Speaking at the European SharePoint Conference in a Week
April 29, 2014The European SharePoint Conference is less than three weeks away and I’m delighted to be part of such an exceptional line up. The conference…
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I Have Been Renewed as MVP for Second Year
April 11, 2014On the April Fools Day, I have received the confirmation that my MVP Award has been renewed. I wish to thank to everyone who made it…
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Business Value of Social Computing (I)
March 29, 2014Hello there! I'd like to start a new serie of posts where I want to hightlight and demystify the benefits of introducing and extending…
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Beezy y yo en SharePoint Conference 2014 Las Vegas
March 26, 2014Hace dos semanas estuve en "La" conferencia de SharePoint en Las Vegas, Estados Unidos. Fueron cuatro días intensos en los que empaparse de…
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SharePoint Conference 2014 and Scalable App Architecture Talk
February 28, 2014Tomorrow I will be flying to Las Vegas, for my third SharePoint Conference there (you can see my impressions from 2009 and 2012). This time,…
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SharePoint Search Alerts and the Case of Only 10 Results
February 21, 2014A puzzling SharePoint search alert behaviour was keeping our team of three scratching our heads for days. If you speak Spanish, you can…
Failed to create a custom control 'PublishingSiteActionsMenuCustomizer'
January 15, 2014A very weird and hard to pinpoint SharePoint error has haunted me these last days. The Symptoms You have a SharePoint site collection that…
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Notas de la asamblea general de SUG.CAT
January 14, 2014Ayer lunes 13 de enero de 2014 nos reunimos para la Asamblea general ordinaria de la asociación SUG.CAT en Barcelona. Todavía no tenemos el…
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Come see me at the European SharePoint Conference 2014!
December 02, 2013In case you missed it, the European SharePoint Conference 2014 programme is now available and I’m delighted to announce that I am speaking…
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My Talk at SharePoint Summit Vancouver 2013
November 29, 2013Last month I attended SharePoint Summit 2013 in Vancouver as a speaker. I was really looking forward to it, being my first time in Canada. F…
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Exposing BLOB Data in Child Entities With Business Connectivity Services
October 17, 2013Another interesting issue arose the last week. I was tasked with implementing a BCS .NET connector to a OTRS web issue tracking service, as…
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No te pierdas la Iberian SharePoint Conference
September 23, 2013Estamos agotando las entradas de la Iberian SharePoint Conference a un ritmo vertiginoso. Las entradas para la conferencia y para los…
How to Enable Custom JavaScript on MDS Pages in SharePoint 2013
September 22, 2013If you have custom JavaScript file loaded in your master page, as we usually do in SharePoint, you might have stumbled upon the problems…
BDC Visual Studio Project and Missing Assembly Trouble
September 13, 2013I just had a strange error the other day, deploying Business Connectivity Services (BCS) model arranged around a NET assembly. When…
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Guía de supervivencia para conferencias tecnológicas (II)
August 09, 2013__Ayer estuve inspirado para escribir la primera parte de esta guía, pero no quería extender el post y atiborrarlo de contenido. Prefiero…
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Guía de supervivencia para conferencias tecnológicas (I)
August 08, 2013La Iberian SharePoint Conference está en plena marcha. Ya hemos abierto el proceso de registro para que podáis comprar vuestras entradas…
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Configuring Content Organizer Rules with PowerShell
August 03, 2013As you probably know from my previous posts, I have been configuring a wide-scale document management solution using Content Organizer…
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En breve se abrirá el registro para la Iberian SharePoint Conference
July 15, 2013Desde la organización de la Iberian SharePoint Conference 2013 la semana pasada cerramos el preregistro con 250 personas apuntadas. A estas…
SPSiteDataQuery and Managed Navigation Filtering
July 15, 2013In this post I'll highlight my recent "battle" with SPSiteDataQuery and Managed Metadata used for cross-site navigation, with the hope that…
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[Reciclaje JavaScript] Encapsulamiento
July 12, 2013Continuando con la serie de posts sobre como programar bien en JavaScript, en este post vamos a ver el tema de encapsulamiento. Como sabéis,…
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TechEd Europe 2013 en Madrid: Mis impresiones
July 07, 2013La semana pasada estuve en TechEd Europe en el recinto firal de IFEMA en Madrid. Iba como staff voluntario para ayudar con los Hands-on Labs…
Calling OTRS Web Services from .NET
June 19, 2013In one of the current projects I have to connect to OTRS ticketing back-end. OTRS is an open-source ticketing application and has a web…
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[Reciclaje JavaScript] Fundamentos
June 11, 2013Tal como dije en mi post del año pasado, una de las cosas que íbamos a aprender los desarrolladores de SharePoint con la nueva versión es…
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Lo que no sabías sobre Iberian SharePoint Conference 2013
June 06, 2013Supongo que la mayoría de los lectores del blog ya saben de que va el asunto, pero desde hace tiempo quería hacer un post sobre ello. Pues…
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Review of “The Art of Community” (2nd Edition)
June 04, 2013It took me much more time to finish The Art of Community (2nd Edition): Building the New Age of Participation than usual, due to my recent…
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Building a Document Routing Hierarchy with SharePoint Subsites and Content Organizer
June 03, 2013In this occasion I have been exploring the possibility of an auto-organizing document hierarchy in SharePoint 2010, made with Content…
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Congratulations Microsoft MVP 2013!
April 05, 2013This is the subject of the email I received on the Fool’s Day. Luckily it was not a joke, it was the confirmation of my nomination as…
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¡Enhorabuena MVP de Microsoft 2013!
April 05, 2013Este es el asunto del correo electrónico que recibí el día 1 de abril, el día de los inocentes en el resto del mundo. No, no era una…
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I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Evolutions Conference in London
February 22, 2013A few months ago I was confirmed as a speaker on the SharePoint Evolutions Conference (aka SPEVO13) that will take place in London, from Apr…
Review of “HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps” Book
February 21, 2013Thanks to the good people at O’Reilly User Group Program (Josette, you rock!), the SharePoint User Group I lead has access to review copies…
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Las apps de SharePoint 2013 (V): Una app provider-hosted en Azure
February 15, 2013En la serie de posts sobre el desarrollo de apps de SharePoint 2013, hemos visto hasta ahora un ejemplo de app de SharePoint 2013 para niños…
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Las apps de SharePoint 2013 (IV): Una app en MVC y en Azure
February 12, 2013En la serie de posts sobre el desarrollo de apps de SharePoint 2013, hasta ahora hemos visto como se desarrolla una app sencilla y alojada…
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Realizado el evento “SharePoint 2013: Novedades y más allá”
November 29, 2012Hoy hemos celebrado el evento largamente preparado y esperado, sobre las novedades de SharePoint 2013. Gracias a la colaboración de AvePoint…
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Evento “SharePoint 2013: Novedades y más allá”
November 21, 2012Después de tantas semanas intentando cerrar un evento con un poco de consistencia para la comunidad de SharePoint en Catalunya, ya tenemos…
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SPC12: El último día
November 16, 2012Hoy se ha acabado la SharePoint Conference 2012. Ha sido un día más corto, con sólo tres sesiones. Hoy también he tenido el honor de hablar…
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SPC12: El tercer día
November 15, 2012El tercer día de la SharePoint Conference en Las Vegas ha sido bastante ajetreado, para mí. He podido participar en el feedback que recoge…
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SPC12: El segundo día
November 14, 2012El segundo día de la SharePoint Conference empezó igual que el primero, con mucho contenido y poco tiempo para decidir a qué sesión asistir.…
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SPC12: El primer día
November 13, 2012Hoy ha sido el primer día de la conferencia de SharePoint en Las Vegas. Había mucha expectación por la keynote inicial, a ver que iba a…
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Comentarios del First Monday del Noviembre 2012
November 06, 2012Ayer celebramos la reunión mensual de la asociación SUG.CAT, en el lounge-bar 7Sins. A pesar de los imprevistos y la logística, pudimos…
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First Monday de SUG.CAT el 5 de noviembre
October 30, 2012Desde SUG.CAT, la asociación de usuarios de SharePoint en Catalunya, estamos encantados de invitar a todos los interesados a nuestro encuent…
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Guía de viaje para SharePoint Conference 2012 en Las Vegas
October 29, 2012Ya falta menos para la conferencia SharePointera más grande del mundo. Si, estoy hablando de la Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 (o SPC…
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Instalando la RTM de SharePoint 2013
October 25, 2012Ayer por la tarde saltó la liebre: la versión RTM de SharePoint 2013 y Office 2013 estaba liberada en MSDN y TechNet. Tardé nada y menos en…
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Helpful SharePoint Tool for Solution Deployment Automation
October 23, 2012I decided to give a try to a new tool that has been published at CodePlex, called SharePoint Solution Deployer (SPSD). It is built to…
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Windows 8 and Synaptics TouchPad Driver
October 22, 2012I installed Windows 8 on my Dell Studio laptop two weeks ago, and I found out that the Synaptics TouchPad driver supplied by Dell does not…
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Las Apps de SharePoint 2013 (III): La primera app
October 21, 2012Despúes de ver la introducción al modelo de las aplicaciones de SharePoint 2013 y de repasar los conceptos básicos de la infraestructura, va…
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Activate Windows 8 Enterprise License without Volume Activation
October 09, 2012I was trying to activate my company’s Windows 8 Enterprise license but I was met repeatedly with the “No DNS Servers Configured: Code…
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Materiales del evento de AndorraDotNet sobre JavaScript
October 08, 2012El viernes pasado, 5 de octubre de 2012, tuve el placer de asistir como ponente en el encuentro del grupo de usuarios de .NET en Andorra, An…
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Las Apps de SharePoint 2013 (II): La infraestructura
September 29, 2012Después de la introducción del post anterior, vamos a ver la arquitectura física de una App de SharePoint 2013. Para ello, no hay nada mejor…
PDF Files Missing in Tag Results
September 27, 2012A quick mystery solved on a customer intranet today. The Symptoms You tag some PDF files, alongside other content in SharePoint 2010. Then…
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Las Apps de SharePoint 2013 (I): Introducción
September 09, 2012En esta serie de posts iré explicando en detalle el nuevo modelo de Apps introducido en SharePoint 2013 Preview. La idea que tengo es…
Material del artículo de SharePoint y KnockoutJS de la revista CompartiMOSS #13
September 07, 2012Aquí os dejo el ejemplo completo de mi artículo “SharePoint por KO: KnockoutJS” de la revista CompartiMOSS #13. ACTUALIZACIÓN 21/09/2012: He…
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Montar un entorno de SharePoint 2013: Visual Studio
August 05, 2012El controlador de dominio El servidor de SharePoint: Windows Server El servidor de SharePoint: SQL Server El servidor de SharePoint…
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Looking Back to the New Wave of Microsoft Certifications
August 03, 2012Since I wrote my last blog post in April, I have been busy updating my other, Spanish-speaking blog, together with learning a lot about…
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Montar un entorno de SharePoint 2013 (IV): SharePoint
August 02, 2012El controlador de dominio El servidor de SharePoint: Windows Server El servidor de SharePoint: SQL Server El servidor de SharePoint…
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Montar un entorno de SharePoint 2013 (III): SQL Server
August 01, 2012El controlador de dominio El servidor de SharePoint: Windows Server El servidor de SharePoint: SQL Server El servidor de SharePoint…
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Montar un entorno de SharePoint 2013 (II): Windows Server
July 31, 2012El controlador de dominio El servidor de SharePoint: Windows Server El servidor de SharePoint: SQL Server El servidor de SharePoint…
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Montar un entorno de SharePoint 2013 (I): El controlador de dominio
July 28, 2012El controlador de dominio El servidor de SharePoint: Windows Server El servidor de SharePoint: SQL Server El servidor de SharePoint…
Farmville para SharePoint (CatDotNet)
July 27, 2012Ayer pasé una buena tarde, participando en las microcharlas de la comunidad CatDotNet, en el Cafè Pagès de Gràcia en Barcelona. Me…
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5 cosas que tus desarrolladores de SharePoint van a aprender con SharePoint 2013
July 19, 2012Como no vivo debajo de una roca, desde el lunes pasado vivo digiriendo bastante información sobre SharePoint 2013 Preview. A veces me siento…
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SharePoint en la Universidad de La Habana
July 06, 2012Hace unas semanas estuve de vacaciones en la maravillosa isla de Cuba. Además de disfrutar de la riqueza cultural y paisajística del país…
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My SharePoint Saturday Belgium Session Material
April 30, 2012I had a very exciting SharePoint Saturday in Brussels, Belgium this Saturday 28th. I met many SharePoint experts and fellow speakers and I…
My View on the New Microsoft Certification Titles
April 30, 2012In the past few weeks we’ve learned that Microsoft has changed the structure of the certification program that has been established in 2007.…
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Primer “pantallazo” de SharePoint 15 Beta
April 18, 2012No sé si fiarme mucho, pero en la web de un desarrollador turco llamado Timur Sahin ha salido un pantallazo que el dice que es de la beta…
JavaScript Errors in SharePoint Application Pages
April 13, 2012Today was a day packed with investigation and troubleshooting weird JavaScript errors on a customer premise. I put this information on my…
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MS NetWork 2.0 en Mostar, Bosnia
April 13, 2012Los días 4 y 5 de abril de 2012 estuve en la conferencia regional de Microsoft Bosnia-Herzegovina, llamada MS NetWork 2.0 en la preciosa (av…
My slides from MS NetWork 2.0 in Mostar
April 07, 2012Here are the slides from my session at MS NetWork 2.0 conference in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. My session was about how to begin developing…
The Value of a Certification
April 07, 2012I just attended the 2nd Microsoft NetWork event in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I spoke about how to start with SharePoint development for existing…
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Reflections on Windows 8 Tour and Camp in Seville
March 26, 2012I attended the Windows 8 Tour and Camp, held in the beautiful city of Seville (Spain) on March 22nd and 23rd. The presenters, Boris Armenta…
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How to Keep Your Certifications Relevant
March 18, 2012We live in a evolving and changing world. For us developers, the times they are a-changin’ at an ever-increasing pace. We have new versions…
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Las diapositivas de la presentación “SharePoint: Presente y futuro”
January 09, 2012Aprovecho para subir la presentación de PowerPoint que utilicé para dar el seminario de pasiona consulting llamado “SharePoint: Presente y…
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SharePoint 2013: Resumen de rumores
December 08, 2011Ya empiezan a aparecer los primeros rumores sobre SharePoint vNext (SharePoint 15) en Internet. Por supuesto, todo lo que sigue son…
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Material de la segunda sesión de SUG.CAT disponible
November 08, 2011El compañero David Martos ha subido el material de las dos charlas que dimos el pasado jueves día 3 de noviembre. Podéis acceder al…
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Conferencia europea de SharePoint: tercer día
October 25, 2011El último día de la Conferencia europea de SharePoint fue muy interesante, haciendo de un colofón muy digno al evento. Building User Forms…
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Segundo evento de SUG.CAT en Barcelona
October 25, 2011Estoy orgulloso de poder anunciar el segundo evento presencial del SharePoint User Group de Catalunya (SUG.CAT). Microsoft ha tenido la…
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Conferencia europea de SharePoint: segundo día
October 19, 2011Continuando con la conferencia de SharePoint en Berlín, hoy ha sido un día muy interesante. La keynote (presentación inicial) ha sido muy…
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Conferencia europea de SharePoint: Primer día
October 18, 2011Hoy he asistido al primer día de la conferencia europea de SharePoint en Berlín. Para mí ha sido un día especial porque he hecho mi primera…
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Camino a Berlín
August 19, 2011Entre los días 17 y 20 de octubre de 2011 la capital alemana se convertirá en la capital europea de SharePoint. Se celebrará la Conferencia…
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Material del primer evento del grupo SUG.CAT en Barcelona
March 19, 2011El jueves pasado, día 17 de marzo de 2011, se realizó el primer acto presencial del grupo de usuarios de SharePoint de Catalunya (SUG.CAT) e…
Primer evento de SUG.CAT
February 25, 2011Es un placer invitarles al primer evento presencial de la comunidad de usuarios de SharePoint de Catalunya (SUG.CAT), que hablará sobre…
How to Set Printer Default Paper Bin in .NET
January 14, 2011Yesterday I was challenged with a task that seemed trivial but it was a real pain to solve. The customer had a VB.NET application that…
Reconfigure A Rogue SharePoint 2010 Search Service
October 19, 2010Hello again to all the readers of my blog. I haven’t been around lately, but I have a good excuse for that: I was getting married. Now, as…
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SharePoint Configuration Database IP Address Blues
May 14, 2010A really weird situation happened yesterday at work. The Symptoms We wanted to move the Virtual Machine that serves as a SQL Server for our…
Balsamiq Mockups: A Review
May 12, 2010As you can probably remember, my frequency of blog posts here has been reduced in the last months. The reason is simple: I’ve been engaged…
IE8 Developer Tools Not Working?
April 17, 2010I’ve been pulling my (scarce) hair when suddenly the Developer Tools in IE8 didn’t appear as expected, on one day. The taskbar in Windows…
Como diseñar clases para ser heredadas (con Code Contracts)
April 13, 2010Mi ex-compañero Eduard Tomàs ha escrito un artículo en su blog que me ha gustado mucho por la magnífica exposición que hace de un tema tan “…
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La comunidad de SharePoint en español – parte 2
April 13, 2010El el primer post sobre la comunidad de SharePoint en español hice un repaso de los grupos y páginas “oficiales” de SharePoint. En esta…
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Hunt For BSOD in Windows 7 x64
March 26, 2010I have a shiny new Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit edition installed on my Dell laptop but in the last month I’ve been suffering intermittent BSOD…
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La Comunidad de SharePoint en español – parte 1
March 19, 2010Hace unos años era una aventura fútil encontrar información decente sobre SharePoint en español. Salvo, claro está, de los maestros Gustavo…
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Things I Have Been Reading Lately
March 19, 2010http://spg.codeplex.com/ A new drop of the official SharePoint Guidance. It now covers SharePoint 2010 and further expands on the SharePoint…
¿Qué es SharePoint?…¡en 5 minutos!
March 04, 2010La próxima vez que alguien os pregunta “pero, ¿qué es SharePoint?”, le podéis enviar una copia de este documento. He intentado hacer un resu…
Todos los blogs de SharePoint en español
March 01, 2010Siguiendo con la conversación muy interesante en el grupo HispaPoint de LinkedIn, he recopilado una lista de blogs de SharePoint en español.…
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STP2WSP File Converter, Part 1: The Anatomy of A .STP
February 25, 2010Recently, together with my colleague Martin Schmidt, I gave a session on MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 migration. Among other things I…
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Bienvenidos a mi “otro” blog
February 24, 2010Por fin me he decidido a hacer un blog en español sobre mi experiencia con SharePoint. Varias razones me han llevado a ello, entre otras la…
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My New Blog in Spanish: SPEdinKapic.Blog
February 24, 2010I’ve decided to write a new blog, in parallel with this one, with the Spanish-speaking SharePoint audience in mind. As I work in Barcelona (…
My SPC 2009 Coverage Article at DotNetMania November Issue
February 17, 2010I wrote a short article in Spanish .NET magazine called DotNetManía about the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. I’ve just found out…
SharePoint 2010 Hyper-V Virtual Machines Available
January 27, 2010Microsoft has announced that pre-configured machines with Office 2010 Beta and SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 are now available for download. There…
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Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Cards on CodePlex
January 25, 2010The good people at Visual Studio Rangers have provided quick reference cards for many VS2010 features. Their aim is to use them as a quick 5…
SharePoint 2010 Certifications Announced
January 24, 2010Certification Path for Developers 70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day…
How Did The Prediction End on SP2010?
January 13, 2010More than a year ago, I wrote a summary post about the rumours and buzz around the next version of SharePoint (SP2010). My post has seen a…
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Setting Up Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in Workgroup
December 17, 2009I’ve been able to set up a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in a spare server box at work. I wanted to set up remote management from my Windows 7, als…
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My First SharePoint 2010 Beta Machine
November 27, 2009I run it on a VMWare Workstation 6.5 inside Windows 7 32-bits. The virtual machine is 64-bits, of course. My first impression is that SP2010…
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The Day Has Arrived: SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Is Here!
November 17, 2009For the MSDN Subscribers only, for the moment.
[SPC09] Driving End User Adoption
October 22, 2009This session was dear to my heart, as the end-user adoption is really a tough thing to achieve. The session was presented by Scott Jamison…
[SPC09] Upgrading SharePoint 2007 Code to SharePoint 2010
October 22, 2009This was my last session at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. Tomorrow I fly back to the real world :-( At least, I splashed up a…
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SharePoint 2010: The New Pie Chart
October 21, 2009SharePoint Server 2010 Overview Available for Download
October 21, 2009On Microsoft TechNet: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/C/6/8C65AC6A-C09A-4E47-B2AD-0719EAA062F9/EvaluateSharePointServer2010-IT…
[SPC09] Document Management Improvements
October 21, 2009On this second day of SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, I attended two sessions that were specific on document management improvements in…
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[SPC09] Day One: Keynote
October 20, 2009Today the HUGE information stream began flowing, starting with a keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and SharePoint directors Jeff Teper…
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[SPC09] Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Development Platform
October 20, 2009This session was delivered by Paul Andrews, Microsoft Technical Product Manager for SharePoint. It was really “techie” stuff, but summarized…
[SPC09] SharePoint 2010 Administration Improvements
October 20, 2009This afternoon, the sessions I attended were about SharePoint Administration improvements. The sessions (Part 1 and Part 2) were delivered…
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[SPC09] First Post From Las Vegas
October 18, 2009I arrived yesterday evening to Las Vegas. Today I did the registration process and I strolled The Las Vegas Strip (officially called Las…
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Follow Me At The SharePoint Conference In Las Vegas
October 14, 2009Yes, I’ll be attending the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SPC09) next week in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will leave this Saturday for Las Vegas (via…
“Failed to compare two elements in the array” Error During SPExport.Run
October 08, 2009I’ve made a custom SPExport and SPImport tool that duplicates site content around the SharePoint site collection. However, it would suddenly…
MOSS Shared Services Provider Administration Job Error (Event ID 6482)
October 05, 2009SYMPTOMS The Event Log shows the following error entry for Office Server Shared Services with Event ID 6482, every couple of minutes: Appli…
Ignite: SharePoint 2010 Free Training for Partners
August 28, 2009I’ve just stumbled across this free SharePoint IT Pro / Dev training by Microsoft. It’s currently open to nominations. Only the partners…
[Road to SharePoint 2010] New API Tree Friends (Part I)
August 19, 2009OK, I admit that the title is a lame pun to the Happy Tree Friends cartoon series. In this installment of the Road to SharePoint 2010 I want…
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[Road to SharePoint 2010] Repackage Your Developments for a Better Tomorrow
July 31, 2009Today I want to comment on what should you take care of when preparing your SharePoint 2007 customizations for the 2010 world. The Good Guys…
Team Foundation Client Error in VS2008
July 29, 2009A weird thing happened to me yesterday when I was trying to edit a couple of work items in Team Foundation client from Visual Studio 2008.…
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[Road to SharePoint 2010] Getting Ready for 64-bit World
July 23, 2009Welcome to the second installment of the Road to SharePoint 2010 series. I will tackle the oldest news for this SharePoint version: it will…
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[Road to SharePoint 2010] The Journey Begins Here
July 15, 2009I’ve decided to start a new series of articles, called Road to SharePoint 2010. What I’m trying to achieve is to summarize what a SharePoint…
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Official SharePoint 2010 Information from Microsoft Disclosed
July 14, 2009After so much silence, a wealth of SharePoint 2010 information has been disclosed from Microsoft. They’ve put together a site with videos…
SharePoint Navigation Doesn’t Show a Subsite for Users with Custom Permission Level
July 09, 2009Interesting behaviour that I saw yesterday. I had a MOSS 2007 site with a custom permission level defined on it. The users that had this…
June Cumulative Updates for SharePoint Released
July 01, 2009The WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative Update über-package and MOSS 2007 June 2009 Cumulative Update individual packages are ready for download. M…
My Contributions on MSDN SharePoint Forums
June 29, 2009I’ve been resuming my collaboration on MSDN SharePoint forums lately, so that’s why I’ve been slow to update the blog these days. I answer…
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At Last: First SharePoint 2010 Screenshots Leaked
June 16, 2009They are based on the Tech-Ed Visual Studio demonstration video. In one moment the presenter opens a SharePoint portal but it’s 2010 pre…
Deploying a Solution in a Farm Fails Because of OWSTIMER.EXE
June 05, 2009Today I had a strange error happening trying to deploy a WSP package on a SharePoint farm that had 2 front-end servers. On my local…
Silverlight and WCF Authentication Issues
June 03, 2009Welcome to a new post of “My Adventures in SIlverlight” series. In this post I’ll try to outline a few caveats I found while trying to…
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What SharePoint and Vermeer have in common?
May 29, 2009Yes, that’s right! What a Dutch painter has to do with a Microsoft server solution? Well, the answer is not an obvious one: The FrontPage (…
COMException 0x81020089 in ItemAdding
May 28, 2009(Thanks to my work colleague Cesar for pointing out this case to me) SYMPTOMS You have a custom list event receiver in SharePoint. You trap…
ASP.NET Unit Testing With Typemock Isolator
May 20, 2009I’ve just stumbled upon this extraordinary offer. I’ve been evaluation Typemock before and it’s one of the best (if not the best) unit…
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Half-Broken SharePoint Disaster Recovery Story
May 19, 2009Today I’ve been greeted by a half-broken SharePoint 2007 development machine. It’s a small farm with one MOSS 2007 server and a SQL Server…
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My First MOSS 2007 SP2 Upgrade
May 17, 2009I’ve been trying to upgrade my development virtual machine to SharePoint 2007 SP2 today. No problems, except for the tiny detail…. The…
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Groove is Dead, Long Live SharePoint Workspace 2010!
May 14, 2009At the end, the ugly duckling of Microsoft Office suite is joining the SharePoint family. Microsoft announced that the Groove file…
It’s Official Now: SharePoint Server 2010
April 15, 2009Finally, the official words from Microsoft: the new incarnation of SharePoint server product will be named “Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010…
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Review: Five Ways SharePoint Can Save You Money
April 09, 2009Microsoft released few months ago a business-oriented guide that explains how businesses can actually save money in these times of crisis…
Detecting a SharePoint Designer Workflow Association
April 03, 2009In a recent project, I had to find out which of the workflows in the site collection were made with SharePoint Designer. I did a recursive…
SharePoint Designer 2007 is FREE
April 03, 2009A surprise from Microsoft! They’ve decided to offer SharePoint Designer 2007 free of charge from April 2nd. I think it will give an extra…
Another SharePoint 14/2009/2010 Leak
March 17, 2009This time the guys at the Microsoft Support have leaked some juicy details about the next version of SharePoint. In their description of the…
Windows Defender Update and the Page Error in Development Web Server
March 16, 2009Another of the strange, unexplained errors with a simple (yet unexpected) cause. SYMPTOMS You are developing an ASP.NET Site or Web Project…
“Access Denied” Error in Discussion List Templates
February 26, 2009Another strange error happened to me on customer premises. THE SYMPTOMS You have developed a custom discussion list in SharePoint. You have…
February 2009 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2007 Released
February 26, 2009Even if it’s not officially announced, the new Cumulative Updates for SharePoint 2007 were released few days ago. WSS 3.0 Cumulative Update…
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Talking to a WCF Service From Silverlight
February 12, 2009In this second installment of “My Adventures with Silverlight” series, I will talk of how to successfully invoke a WCF service from…
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My Adventures in Silverlight
January 31, 2009If you’ve been returning to my blog in the past month, you could see that I haven’t written anything since December the 3rd. I haven’t…
“This form has been closed” and “The specified form cannot be found” When Using SharePoint Default Workflows
December 03, 2008A really weird bug with SharePoint happened today. SYMPTOMS You have a standard MOSS 2007 Approval or Collect Feedback workflow configured…
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Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint
December 02, 2008At TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint were announced and demonstrated. What was showed was the…
.NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit
November 19, 2008I’m still digesting the changes in .NET 3.5 and SP1, and the guys from Redmond already make a training kit for the next version of the…
NumberField and getElementById
November 13, 2008Just a quick lesson learnt today in field: SCENARIO You want to use JavaScript to validate certain fields when the SharePoint page is in…
Truncate that Huge DB Transaction Log!
November 11, 2008How many times you’ve seen the small SharePoint content database and a huge transaction log by its side? And the corresponding “Not enough…
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New Logo for .NET
November 04, 2008It was about time that the old .net logo becomes .NET (the capitalized case is the correct name of the platform). The “wavy” new logo is…
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Microsoft SharePoint Services and Windows Azure
October 30, 2008I’m in the process of digesting the wealth of information that is pouring from PDC 2008 that’s in progress right now. I was unable to…
SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 Details Announced
October 27, 2008There are official news about SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) from Microsoft TechNet. The new service pack will contain: I…
Essential SharePoint Books: Part II (Intermediate)
October 22, 2008Intermediate Level Books <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="973"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="274">Title</td><td…
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM 2008
October 21, 2008Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has moved from the “Visionary” quadrant into “Leaders” quadrant, in the past year. According to Gar…
SharePoint v14 / 2009 Feature List
October 13, 2008Let’s do a quick recap about what we could expect from the next version of SharePoint from Microsoft: <table border="0" cellspacing="0…
Essential SharePoint Books: A Bookshelf That Won’t “Gather Moss”
October 06, 2008Ok, I admit that the joke attempt wasn’t even remotely funny ;-) Being in SharePoint business for several years now has exposed me to lot of…
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“Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls”
October 02, 2008Yesterday a misleading error happened. A custom layout was deployed using Features and WSP solution packages. Everything went well, but when…
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User Profiles Usage Guidelines from Microsoft
September 26, 2008Glancing over the new entries at MSDN for SharePoint, I noticed an article by the name of “Capitalizing On the Social Network Capabilities…
Content Management Interoperability Services, Good News for SharePoint?
September 19, 2008A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft, EMC and IBM announced that they agreed on a joint specification of interoperability between their content…
Accessing SPListItem.Fields Property
September 08, 2008An annoying “design bug” that happened to me today. SPListItem item = …(get a valid SPListItem)… SPField fieldDef = item.Fields…
User Profile Activities Updated to Version 0.2.0
August 28, 2008Acting on the feedback I received, I fixed some bugs in my User Profile related Activities for SharePoint Designer. I changed the version…
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Training Update
August 17, 2008As you might know, Microsoft has released a service pack for .NET Framework 3.5 few days ago. Let’s see what it adds to the standard…
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How To: Add Banner Type Links to CKS:EBE Blog
July 29, 2008Although I’m much more involved with CKS:IEE and CKS:CIE editions of Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS), I’ve been playing lately with CKS…
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ISPA: International SharePoint Professionals Association
July 21, 2008Finally, an independent association for all of us SharePointers is born. ISPA (International SharePoint Professionals Association) has…
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SharePoint Infrastructure Updates
July 16, 2008(a new buzzword to learn, together with “hotfix”, “patch”, “service pack” and “update”.) Well, the thing is that the good folks at Microsoft…
“File Not Found” Error Creating Sites
July 03, 2008Yesterday SharePoint greeted me with this error message when I tried to create a new site inside a site collection: File not found. I…
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How To Expose Files in a Shared Folder for Remote Access with SharePoint
June 23, 2008I just completed a Proof-of-Concept setup to allow the users to remotely access files that sit on a network share, using SharePoint and IIS…
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Community Kit for SharePoint Needs You!
June 19, 2008As you might know, I contribute to Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS). It’s a CodePlex-hosted community project aimed to provide the…
Even More SharePoint 2009 Evidence
June 18, 2008Master Data Management: It seems that Microsoft last year acquisition of Stratature will result in their MDM mechanism being a part of…
SharePoint 2009 Will Be x64 Only
June 16, 2008(In addition to my previous blog entry speculating about the features of the next version of SharePoint) the SharePoint 2009 will be availa…
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Hiding List View Group Headers
June 10, 2008It’s really annoying that SharePoint displays those pesky column names followed by a colon when you group by a column. In this example I use…
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A Marvelous Little Utility for Zooming
June 06, 2008Tired of changing the font size when teaching Visual Studio? Try this new miracle tool from Mark Russinovich and SysInternals Team (now on…
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IE and The Mysterious ‘The page took too long to save’ Message
June 04, 2008Another one of those “oh my god” moments in SharePoint programming, although it had nothing to do with SharePoint proper. The Background I…
Visual Studio 2008 Now Has VSeWSS Tools, Too!
June 04, 2008Excellent news! The SharePoint team has released the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) version 1.2. The only…
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New SharePoint Training Content
June 03, 2008If you are comfortable in .NET development but SharePoint has always been a murky water for you, check out the new MSDN content tailored…
"Unexpected Error occurred" when accessing Network Connection Properties
May 28, 2008Following on the weird Windows XP network errors, such as the mysterious connecting to 1.0.0.0 site, I experienced another unexplained…
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WSS/MOSS Running on Vista
May 28, 2008The good folks from Bamboo Solutions (these guys make tons of webparts, check them out) have made a setup bootstrapper called WssVista for W…
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User Profile Sharepoint Designer Activities 0.2.0
May 27, 2008UPDATED 04/07/2012: I had issues with SkyDrive and lost the files but the WSP file has been retrieved by one of the previous downloaders…
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VMWare "Unable to save snapshot file"
May 26, 2008I often try things on my SharePoint virtual machine that I keep on my laptop, hosted in VMWare Server environment. A few months ago suddenly…
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How to Boost the Volume in Windows Media Player
May 23, 2008I'm disappointed about how my stylish Sony VAIO built-in speakers sound so weak compared to my older HP laptop equipped with sleek Altec…
Office 2007 SP2 and SharePoint: ODF Friendly
May 22, 2008Microsoft announced on May 21st that the new Service Pack for Office 2007 (SP2) will add native support for ODF and PDF files. Yes, that…
Internet Explorer "Connecting to site 1.0.0.0" and Page Not Found Error
May 19, 2008A really weird error happened on one of my older computers, running Windows XP SP2. I successfully established a Wireless connection with an…
Where to Store those Large Files? A Tale of a BLOB
May 08, 2008Few months ago I noticed that the WSS 3.0 introduced the notion of a external file storage provider to SharePoint world. Since then I kept…
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No Hibernate Option in Vista
April 30, 2008I came across this annoyance on my boss' computer today. He had no "Hibernate" option on shutdown in his Vista Business laptop. Luckily, the…
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SharePoint Four-in-Hand and Trainer, too
April 29, 2008Few days ago I did the last remaining SharePoint exams, which I was postponing for a long time due to everyday tight agenda. Now I join the…
DataSource, ValueMember and DisplayMember Order Issues
April 23, 2008For two times in a row this week I was asked to do a buddy check of .NET code that performs databinding. I found out that the order of the…
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SharePoint Predictions for 2008: Be Aware
April 21, 2008The good folks at CMS Watch wrote their "crystal ball" predictions in CMS world last December. There is one prediction regarding SharePoint…
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.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is Available
April 20, 2008Wow, that's fast! I'm still digesting the NET Framework 3.0 training (mainly over WPF now) and the folks from Redmond deliver their first…
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SharePoint Protocols "explained"
April 18, 2008If you were not aware, Microsoft released a bunch of PDF documents specifying various protocols that SharePoint uses to communicate…
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A little bit of SharePoint Fun (or so it seems)
April 17, 2008Some of the main Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 competitors (according to Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM) can be found in this…
SharePoint 2009 / 2010 / vNext Rumours
April 12, 2008There's no official information by Microsoft about the next version of WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 technologies. Nevertheless, there are bits of…
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Vista NetStumbler Alternative Tool
April 11, 2008I'm a big fan of NetStumbler WiFi discovery tool, but I'm sadly disappointed that it's not supported under Microsoft Vista. However, we can…
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Page.Trace and System.Diagnostics.Trace Comparison
April 10, 2008More often than not, I see how newbie .NET programmers are confused when trying to trace ASP.NET applications. The origin of the confusion…
Add a Submit Button Confirmation to an ASP.NET Web Form
April 07, 2008I've been asked many times how to add a confirmation dialog for a simple (or complex, why not?) ASP.NET web form. It's simple: Find the OnC…
How to Clear ASP.NET Web Cache
March 28, 2008In ASP.NET you can remove an item from the web cache by invoking Cache.Remove(string ID). But, what happens when, for some reason, you want…
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How to Replace Notepad in Windows Vista
March 25, 2008I'm much fond of the Flo's excellent Notepad2 editor. Replacing the simple built-in Notepad is one of the first things that I customize on…
Unable to Add Summary Links Web Part (Error 0x80070002)
March 25, 2008Funny thing happened today when I tried to export / import a site from one site collection into another one. It asked me to close the Summar…
Import a Specific Active Directory Group User Profiles
March 20, 2008Sometimes we want SharePoint to import only the user profiles of those user that belong to one specific Active Directory group. In this case…
"I Need To..." Web Part and JavaScript error
March 18, 2008If you try to customize the "I Need To..." web part, as outlined by Gary in his blog post, you might experience a JavaScript error, just…
IE8 Passes the Acid2 Test
March 12, 2008I downloaded the Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx and I was…
Error in PortalCrawl Web Service (0x80042617)
January 23, 2008This nasty error is shown in Event Viewer when Office SharePoint Search crawler process can't process "My Sites" to index the users. The…
WSS/MOSS SP1 Released!
December 14, 2007Finally, the long-awaited SP1 for WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 have been released. You can find them at Microsoft Downloads page: WSS 3.0 SP1 MOSS…
MOSS 2007 SP1 is *almost* here - December 12th
December 04, 2007(via Mart Muller) It seems that the SP1 for MOSS 2007 is just a week away, scheduled for December the 12th! Wondering what it contains…
How to Test a .NET Application That Uses SMTP
November 27, 2007How many times you had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly? I found that I can test…
Pause until Date Activity Not Triggered
November 13, 2007The last in the list of SharePoint quirks happened to me few days ago. The Symptoms You have a SharePoint Designer workflow that has a Pause…
Upload a Document without Lists.asmx
November 05, 2007I was looking for a way to quickly upload some documents into a SharePoint document library, when I stumbled upon this fine helper class by…
Excel Services and External Data Ranges
October 27, 2007Excel Services cannot render a workbook that contains external data ranges displayed as a table, as mentioned in the documentation. I had to…
CKS:IEE Forms-Based Authentication is now in Pre-Beta
October 13, 2007Well, it's been few months ago since I joined Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) project on CodePlex. To me it seems like yesterday... Final…
Add JavaScript Date Validation into List Item forms
October 10, 2007Another undocumented piece of SharePoint. I want to validate two fields on a new list item form by invoking JavaScript custom function. They…
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Reassign a SPD Workflow to Another List
October 09, 2007One of the main drawbacks of SharePoint Designer-based workflows is that you cannot reuse an existing workflow in another list. Recently, I…
Document Icon in CQWP
September 10, 2007After the (deserved) summer vacation period, I resumed the "normal" work schedule. One of the first issues I had to solve was how to display…
Install Windows Live Writer Beta 3 on Vista x64
September 10, 2007I tried to install a new beta of Windows Live Writer (WLInstaller.exe) on my Vista x64 and I met the spartan error message: Windows Live…
Windows Update KB932596 and VMWare Server on Vista x64
August 20, 2007I was surprised to see that after a major Windows update process (the August 14th one) my VMWare Server stopped working. It began to give…
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Enumerating User Profiles
August 09, 2007I've been trying for a week to make a workflow activity that would parse all user profiles and find a user with a specific title. At first…
Hide a field from NewForm.aspx
August 06, 2007Updated (18/03/2008): There's an extended custom web part made by Paul that does the same thing and much more. You can start reading from he…
Getting the SPUser out of SPFieldUser
August 02, 2007SPFieldUser field type stores the username in "1#;User" fashion. This is a small annoyance when trying to access the user data, for instance…
"Access Denied" when Editing Task in a Workflow
July 30, 2007This one was *really* weird stuff. - There is a SPD-created workflow that creates successive approval tasks, using Collect Data From a User…
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Vaio, Sigmatel sound card and Vista
July 18, 2007As I recently reinstalled Vista (as I explained in my previous post), all the drivers for my Vaio laptop had to be reinstalled too. It all…
Vista Enterprise Volume Activation Error 0x8007232B
July 13, 2007I've been trying to activate my corporate Vista Enterprise license, as I reinstalled Vista in 64 bits mode. I tried to activate online and I…
An unknown error has ocurred - One solution
July 10, 2007Today I was setting up a fresh virtual machine with MOSS 2007 and I met the dreaded "An unknown error has ocurred" message after the…
Common Pitfalls in SharePoint Designer Custom Actions
July 09, 2007I crafted a handful of custom workflow actions for SharePoint Designer recently and I noticed several recurrent errors: When you select a…
Email a Link to the Current List Item from SPD Workflow
June 22, 2007If you use the built-in activity of SharePoint Designer workflow "Send email", you can embed the URL of the current item ("Absolute Encoded…
Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release
June 19, 2007Exciting news! The CKS 2.0 has been pre-released. It's just been a few months since the project started and we already have something…
Patch for SharePoint Workflow Time-based Activities
June 19, 2007Today I've been working on a "Early Warning" workflow designed with SharePoint Designer. It is supposed to run on every item change and to…
Community Kit for SharePoint
June 17, 2007Few months ago I joined Community Kit for SharePoint team. It's a collaborative open-source effort to extend and adapt SharePoint for…
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How to Optimize SharePoint Designer's Use of Content Types in a Workflow
June 15, 2007I'm annoyed by many little details of the SharePoint Designer Workflow editor, but the main one is that it profligates in the creation of…
SharePoint Hotfix is available
May 03, 2007Microsoft released, at least, a quick-and-dirty hotfix that fixes up several issues with SharePoint Services 3.0. In particular, I've found…
COM Again (0x81020037)
March 19, 2007I found this "descriptive" error message in a fragment of MOSS 2007 code in a webpart that uploads and tags a document with appropriate…
Authentication when consuming a web service with Integrated Authentication
February 21, 2007The most convenient way is to pass the user credentials from the client to the web service, providing a DefaultCredential object to the…
How to Serialize a Collection
October 19, 2006In a fragment of a code I'm working on, I must serialize a collection of links into an XML file. Fortunately, .NET Framework provides a…
Data Caching in SharePoint 2003
October 11, 2006If you are used to the ASP.NET Cache object, you can use it in SharePoint (after all, it's just an ASP.NET extended application). However…
Shed some light into SharePoint web part errors
September 27, 2006Seeing many of those “descriptive” SharePoint errors like this one lately: Error The "MyWebPart" Web Part appears to be causing a problem.…
Active Directory or “How I Learnt to Live With the Ugly COM Guts”
September 14, 2006In a project I’m working on, I have to authenticate a user on a custom SharePoint 2003 login form (Yes, that’s possible….more on it will be…
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Ruby on Rails, the next tidal wave?
September 02, 2006I've been looking for information about the new buzzword in town: Ruby on Rails (aka RoR). I thought it was just another web development…
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First Word 2007 blog posting
August 31, 2006Hello, This entry is written from Word 2007 Beta. This feature is really astounding and time-saving. Step-by-step Guide: Open Word 2007 Cho…
The First Post
August 30, 2006Hello there! My first technical blog finally comes to the daylight. Isn't it a thrilling experience? I expect this blog to steadily grow…
