Suman Chakrabarti - Coding for Office Apps
Office Collaboration, .NET dev, Social Computing and other random bits of goodness
Going Vista full-time
I've decided to go full-time with Windows Vista, now, since I've installed the RC1 build. I've gotta...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 09/09/2006
Windows Live Local
I've been using Google Maps (GMaps) for a long time and, after joining Microsoft, started using the...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 07/17/2006
Windows Vista Glass with NVidia driver set
I was having a lot of problems getting Aero Glass to run on my Vista drive on my Toshiba Tecra M5....
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 07/13/2006
Load Testing strategies in Visual Studio 2005: Scenario with SharePoint
Recently, I did some work at a customer who was having performance problems in their SharePoint...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 07/11/2006
DRM - Not a fan
I was trying to deal with my old iTunes library and import it into my Windows Media library so I...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 07/07/2006
Bloggin’ from Word 2007
I wanted to test posting the contents of a Word document to my blog using the new feature built into...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 06/29/2006
BizTalkin
I've been recommending customers use BizTalk for integrating business applications for the past 2...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 06/23/2006
.NET 3.0 community site
The new .NET 3.0 Community site has been recently released. (The .NET 3.0 framework was formerly...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 06/19/2006
Kudos to Bill G
I have to say that I am impressed with Bill Gates' announcement to transition into a new role...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 06/16/2006
The Office 2007 ribbon
I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the new Office 2007 ribbon. IMO, maybe it will just take time,...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/25/2006
Reporting Services delivery to SharePoint document library
This is one of those "must haves" for organizations. This assembly creates a web service to upload a...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/18/2006
Cleveland User Group Meeting
Thanks to Bennett Adelson Consulting for hosting the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group (SIG) on...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/11/2006
System.Data.Common data connections: Part 1 - Connecting with ConnectionStringSettings
This is a demonstration of how to connect to data sources using the DB provider-based objects built...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/11/2006
Creating a recycle bin for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Here's a great article I wrote on my old blog about Windows SharePoint Services Recycle Bins in WSS...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/11/2006
Preview Office 2007
In case you're in a vacuum, preview some of the new features of Office 2007...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/08/2006
Adding linked files to a Visual Studio project
Here's a cool trick to add files to your project that are global. The example is for linking a...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/08/2006
Custom collection pattern
I've put together a simple pattern for when I create new data driven objects that I'd like to share....
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/06/2006
Custom collections data pattern
I've put together a simple pattern for when I create new data driven objects that I'd like to share....
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/05/2006
Speaking at Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group May 9th
It's late notice, but I'm presenting at the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group next Tuesday, May...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/02/2006
Cingular SmartPhone 2125
I recently purchased a Cingular 2125 SmartPhone running Windows Mobile 5.0. I had one of the early...
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/02/2006
Starting week 2 at Microsoft
I've started week 2 at Microsoft and part of my personal agenda was to get a blog on msdn blogs....
Author: Suman Chakrabarti Date: 05/01/2006