Author Archives: gavinbarron

Parameterised SQL Reports in SharePoint

Posted on March 31, 2008 by gavinbarron

So, I’ve developed a parameterised report and surfaced it inside a SharePoint site using the Report Viewer Web Part. Now the user has this ‘nice’ pane on the side of the report to supply the parameter value…. How do I … Continue reading →

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Developing SQL Reports: Useful Resources

Posted on March 31, 2008 by gavinbarron

OK, so I promised more on the reporting services front. This post is just a quick follow up on that with a few resources, a.k.a blog posts from smart cookies, that I found VERY useful. A great 3 part intro … Continue reading →

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Installing SSRS in SharePoint Integrated Mode

Posted on March 26, 2008 by gavinbarron

Oops, nearly two weeks since a post! That’s a bit of an indicator of how busy I’ve been of late… Anyway, I had to set up up SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated mode. Not too difficult on the … Continue reading →

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Need to resize a VHD?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by gavinbarron

I do most of my development using virtual machines now and according to all the information that I’ve seen fixed sized disks perform better, this great until like me you start to run out of space on the VM you’re … Continue reading →

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VSeWSS 1.0 and solution.xml

Posted on March 12, 2008 by gavinbarron

So, I have a project that I’m still working on that is using VSeWSS 1.0 project templates. I just got bitten by an issue I knew about from prior experience 😐 With this version VSeWSS creates a file called solution.xml … Continue reading →

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VSeWSS Deployment Issue

Posted on March 12, 2008 by gavinbarron

Ok, here at Intergen we are working on the VSeWSS 1.1 User Guide. As part of this we have to create code samples in both C# and VB.NET for all the code that we produce. No big deal really. Except … Continue reading →

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SPQuery is not reusable.

Posted on March 9, 2008 by gavinbarron

So I’m writing some code to assemble some information about items in a list. My original approach was this: The problem here was that the second call to GetListItems was returning the exact same results as the first call, despite … Continue reading →

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Intergenite delivers in browser viewer for docx

Posted on March 7, 2008 by gavinbarron

Here at Intergen I have the good fortune of working with lots of very tallented people.  One of them, James Newton-King, has developed a means of viewing Microsoft Word 2007 documents in a web browser, on any platform! His solution, … Continue reading →

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Deploying Timer Jobs

Posted on March 6, 2008 by gavinbarron

So I’m working on a Timer Job for SharePoint at the moment, I found that the post that Andrew Connell has made describing the development process is very good, read it here: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CreatingCustomSharePointTimerJobs.aspx Anyway I was trying to debug my … Continue reading →

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Version Control is NOT Source Control!

Posted on March 5, 2008 by gavinbarron

Warning: Rant ahead! So a question popped up on the MSDN SharePoint developers forum about how to use integrate WSS and Visual Studio in order to save files edited in Visual Studio direct into WSS including using Check In/ Check … Continue reading →

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