Suman Chakrabarti - Coding for Office Apps
Office Collaboration, .NET dev, Social Computing and other random bits of goodness
PowerShell Approach Setting the lock state for a site collection has a few rules that aren't...
Date: 11/19/2014
One thing I had trouble finding was how to change the logo in my Office 365 tenant. It's not obvious...
Date: 11/19/2014
Overview Unit testing the Office Developer Patterns & Practices Core solution was definitely a...
Date: 09/03/2014
Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Pinterest, and all the other social media outlets have an amazing...
Date: 05/12/2014
Many organizations I've worked with are trying to ensure multilingual support in their SharePoint...
Date: 03/06/2012
I was having a lot of trouble with this, so I'm going to share it. Visual Studio 2010 setup projects...
Date: 11/03/2011
I've always wondered which is the fastest technique to do a string comparison? using the...
Date: 05/26/2010
Cannot use Visual Studio Unit Tests to test against a live SharePoint 2007 site if on a 64-bit machine
I scoured Bing (and Google) to find out why my Visual Studio unit tests will not allow me to test my...
Date: 04/16/2010
So, I had the exact same problem as Tim Heuer (New hard drive means re-install everything). 150GB...
Date: 04/12/2010
With all the microblogging I do, I've found myself writing less informative blogs. I started a...
Date: 01/05/2010
I had problems getting the Hyper-V Integration components installed in my VPC this evening. After a...
Date: 10/08/2009
This should have been obvious to me, and whoever you are searching for this, but apparently it's not...
Date: 10/07/2009
This is the first app that I get to work on for a customer that uses WPF and WCF. I'm finding the...
Date: 09/24/2009
You just want the error message to be displayed on the default SharePoint error page. Is this an...
Date: 01/25/2009
This one is an awesome feature to add if you've got an application running a workflow asynchronously...
Date: 01/25/2009
Following the lead of Sara Ford, I think I want to do a 'How do I' piece for SharePoint developers....
Date: 01/25/2009
In case you missed hearing about the new SDK, here's a great post on what's in it....
Date: 09/01/2008
I had enough trying to find this code, so I'm putting what I've pieced together to activate a...
Date: 08/16/2008
I hate fishing around to get the publickeytoken for my strong named assemblies, so I fished around...
Date: 07/16/2008
So, I scoured the internet (all of it, I swear) to find some information on readonly fields in...
Date: 06/24/2008
I just bought a video camera online, so I figured I'd check out the Live Cashback program and see if...
Date: 05/29/2008
I just got my Navigon 7100 GPS and I have to say I'm impressed. I really like the navigation quality...
Date: 05/18/2008
I presented a Silverlight 1.0/2.0 demonstration yesterday at CodeCamp and it went quite well. Most...
Date: 04/14/2008
I ran into a problem when trying to use Peschka's PartCheck code for My Site autoconfiguration to...
Date: 03/26/2008
I'm speaking at Pittsburgh's Code Camp on April 12th located at University of Pittsburgh's Sennott...
Date: 03/26/2008
Depending on your hardware configuration IIS 6.0 does have a potential limit to the number of...
Date: 03/25/2008
I posted these to Joel Oleson's MSDN blog, but since he's moving the blog, I didn't want to lose...
Date: 03/20/2008
Unfortunately, you cannot natively migrate web part pages to WCM publishing pages. The benefit of...
Date: 03/16/2008
This is a diversion from the usual tech stuff I blog, but my mother just published her book--a dream...
Date: 02/03/2008
It's nice to have that handy-dandy search bar in the upper right corner of your Internet Explorer...
Date: 01/29/2008
So, I was recently asked how to migrate MyLinks from an SPS2003 SharePoint site. The hurdle is that...
Date: 01/10/2008
I put together this post on my old blog about 2 years ago and was recently asked questions about...
Date: 11/28/2007
Some great articles on SharePoint best practices have been published on MSDN. Best Practices: Common...
Date: 11/16/2007
If you're into MOSS customizations, check out Brett Geoffroy's MSDN blog. He's done a sweet job...
Date: 11/13/2007
Official SharePoint Blog – this site has real world examples...
Date: 09/19/2007
Just saw a great demo on planning sites and found out how to use managed paths to create site...
Date: 07/25/2007
I just had a recent discovery for a great SP content source! I think from now on before I leave a...
Date: 07/25/2007
One of the features of SharePoint is its WebDAV available interface. An advantage to this interface...
Date: 07/03/2007
To put together the right query to get users that are not disabled accounts nor service accounts,...
Date: 06/28/2007
Links to configuration of Notes search in SharePointTechNet: Lotus Notes Configuration for...
Date: 03/31/2007
I'm up here in Boston learning about some features I didn't know about in MOSS 2007 from Scot...
Date: 01/17/2007
I'm working on my first major AJAX project and I've been following the updates this entire time. I...
Date: 01/05/2007
My Active Directory activities have been published to the .NET 3.0 web site. They are available...
Date: 12/21/2006
I've been working on building out some AD activities for Windows Workflow Foundation. A few months...
Date: 11/30/2006
It didn't take people long to hack it. https://phaleux.com/?cat=1 This is obviously not supported by...
Date: 11/24/2006
Got my Zune! WooHoo! This thing is awesome! First impressions were that it's a little bulky, and I...
Date: 11/17/2006
I've never owned an iPod or any music/video specific device (just my smartphone), so I never really...
Date: 11/10/2006
If you have an iPod or have been thinking of getting one, the new Zune media player is coming out...
Date: 09/27/2006
Okay, something cool again. Office Live! gives you a personalizable web site and some Live! Mail...
Date: 09/25/2006
This was a little too cool to pass up. You can add maps from Windows Live! Local to your Outlook...
Date: 09/09/2006