Santomania
Addy Santo's occasional braindumps
Life imitating art : NASA working on lightsaber practice droid.
This is what happens when you give true geeks an unlimited budget... The article (from Wired) has...
Author: Addys Date: 06/10/2004
Infopath forms and the XmlNamespaceManager
One common task when programmatically manipulating an InfoPath form is setting up the namespace...
Author: Addys Date: 06/08/2004
100% legal P2P music sharing? Hmm.....
A friend just mailed me a link to Mercora who claim to provide a legitimate, legal and free P2P...
Author: Addys Date: 06/07/2004
Scoble vs. Madonna
Madonna concert, Madison Square Garden, evening of June 16th. vs.Scobe's blogger/geek dinner,...
Author: Addys Date: 06/05/2004
Painless Sharepoint 2003 deployments (even when migrating from SPS 2001) ??
After reading Bill's woes with SPIN/SPOUT and the deployment in general, I figured he isn't the only...
Author: Addys Date: 06/05/2004
Headless Systems (?)
A recent MSDN article: Yes Virginia, Windows CE .NET Does Handle Headless Systems Is this really...
Author: Addys Date: 06/05/2004
Pair-Programming - Necessary?
Roy mentions pair-programming and a situation in which a pair fell apart because "it just seemed...
Author: Addys Date: 06/04/2004
Skype contact info
I'm on Skype too; username: addysanto.
Author: Addys Date: 06/04/2004
Birthday thoughts...
Tomorrow will be the next day of the rest of my life. Same as yesterday and today , but with one...
Author: Addys Date: 05/24/2004
Is anyone else getting Blog-Spammed today?
Update: Jesse recommends reporting this guy to his affiliates. I got multiple (~10 at last count but...
Author: Addys Date: 05/21/2004
[OT] What NOT to post on your blog
Senate staffer's shocking sex blog. She must have missed Scoble's Corporate Weblog Manifesto :) via...
Author: Addys Date: 05/20/2004
Check out an internal Microsoft email thread posted on Channel 9
Chris Sells points out an internal Microsoft email thread which the Channel 9 team is sharing with...
Author: Addys Date: 05/20/2004
Programmatically caching Infopath templates using Application.CacheSolution
Infopath has a simple and elegent system for caching form templates - when you open a form with an...
Author: Addys Date: 05/18/2004
I'm Back!
Back from a week onsite with little to no internet access. I'm still recovering from the withdrawal...
Author: Addys Date: 05/17/2004
[OT] What is this?
We bought this cute painting at the Hoboken Arts festival over the weekend: I say it is a cat, my...
Author: Addys Date: 05/17/2004
Book Review: "Software Project Survival Guide"
I just finished reading the "Software Project Survival Guide" (Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press) and...
Author: Addys Date: 05/08/2004
Gotcha!: Sasser Worm Author Caught
Well, the [suspected] author of the Sasser worm was arrested in Germany (Reuters link). Hopefully...
Author: Addys Date: 05/08/2004
Workflow Lite For SharePoint Beta Available
Jan Tielens has released a generic configurable document library event handler that can be used to...
Author: Addys Date: 05/06/2004
Winforms custom control - Hierarchy mapper
Last night I took someone up on a dare and whipped up a quick-n'dirty winforms control which allows...
Author: Addys Date: 04/27/2004
A-Y-SSN-A-B-T-U
This post of mine on the SelectSingleNode method (from Nov-2003) has been producing over 100 hits a...
Author: Addys Date: 04/26/2004
Is anyone doing any XAML RSS work?
I stumbled across Joe Marini's XAML Blog Reader sample which is simply awesome. However it is just a...
Author: Addys Date: 04/26/2004
Testing Visual Blogger
Hmm.... Visual Blogger looks cool, but will it work? <hint: if you see this post then apparently...
Author: Addys Date: 04/26/2004
New article on how to build the Links Web Part.
No, you can't have my Web Part, you can build your own. Sorry it took so long but I have been trying...
Author: Addys Date: 04/23/2004
Using Access 2003 as a Smart Client
If a 'Smart Client' means being able to work online or offline and call Web Services then here is an...
Author: Addys Date: 04/21/2004
XmlDocument.CreateProcessingInstruction goes better with XmlDocument.InsertBefore
Note to self: Next time you need to add a Processing Instruction (PI) to an XmlDocument, ignore the...
Author: Addys Date: 04/14/2004
Productivity, my way
I recently finished redesigning the topology of my home office - hardware, software and network -...
Author: Addys Date: 04/13/2004
Is your Windows Update on?
Time to patch! Several critical Security Bulletins were released today so make sure your system is...
Author: Addys Date: 04/13/2004
On the MVP Issue
It seems to me that whenever you get a group of highly motivated and competitive individuals, there...
Author: Addys Date: 04/13/2004
Document Library Event Handler Toolkit Released
The sample in the Document Library Event Handler Toolkit (EventHandlerToolkit.exe) download...
Author: Addys Date: 04/06/2004
Lots of new Biztalk 2004 content released today
While this has been blogged about (ScottWoo, OAllen) it really deserves a little more buzz: 1....
Author: Addys Date: 04/02/2004
How to display data from an InfoPath form inside WSS/SPS web parts (without coding)
A nice connect-the-dots explanation is up on MSD2D.COM which shows how to hook up a data web part to...
Author: Addys Date: 03/29/2004
This is either brilliant or embarassing, or both.
I was deploying a webservice onto a SharePoint box when I got the “Debugging is not supported...
Author: Addys Date: 03/02/2004
BizTalk Server Adapter for SharePoint Libraries
This adapter makes SharePoint libraries accessible to BizTalk Server 2004 to provide an end-to-end...
Author: Addys Date: 03/02/2004
InfoPath SP1 Tip of the Day
Tip #1:Do you have a form with multiple instances of the same dropdown list? Or multiple forms with...
Author: Addys Date: 02/24/2004
Infopath SP1 preview announced
This is a must for Infopath developers. Support for managed code instead of VB/JS scripting, VS.NET...
Author: Addys Date: 02/23/2004
My first month at Microsoft (Time Flies When You're Having Fun)
Wow, that went by really fast. So let’s see, how can I even begin to describe what it is like...
Author: Addys Date: 02/23/2004
[OT] Finger counting in Binary
Programmer jokes, you gotta love 'em... https://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040217 <edited...
Author: Addys Date: 02/18/2004
Getting my box ready for Longhorn
After juggling multiple concurrent non-compatible versions of a product I'm working with, I finally...
Author: Addys Date: 02/17/2004
Indigo for XP... Cool...
I must have dozed off at the wheel because this was new to me: Finally, Indigo is different from the...
Author: Addys Date: 02/16/2004
Who's afraid of the big bad System.Runtime.Serialization?
Last week there was a bit of a controversy surrounding somebody’s bad experiences with .NET...
Author: Addys Date: 02/16/2004
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document Library Migration Tools
a set of utility programs developed by Microsoft for migrating documents and associated descriptive...
Author: Addys Date: 02/14/2004
A Windows GUI for STSADM.exe
This .net application presents a rich client GUI for the powerful command line STSADM.exe.
Author: Addys Date: 02/10/2004
Let me (re)Introduce myself, Part I
<<Warning/Disclaimer: An overly enthusiastic newbie employee is probably about to insert foot...
Author: Addys Date: 02/08/2004
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies RTM's
Microsoft® Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint™ Technologies enables you to...
Author: Addys Date: 02/03/2004
Find the good stuff at the Microsoft Webcasts site
There is an impressive number of developer webcasts available on-demand here, 23 just from last...
Author: Addys Date: 02/02/2004