SharePoint Sneak Peak March 29, 2006
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Microsoft is slowly making information public about the next version of SharePoint which is part of the Office 2007 release. Check out the preview page for a demo, evaluation guide, and links to related technologies such as Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Designer.
SharePoint’s New Name: MOSS March 29, 2006
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Before Office 2007, SharePoint was either referred to as SPS or WSS (Portal or Services, respectively). Unless, of course, I was the one talking. I always just call it SharePoint and let the context determine to which technology I'm referring. In case having two names wasn't confusing enough, M$ has some recommendations for how you should refer to SharePoint.
The formal name for the next version of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can drop Microsoft, but preferably not Office. If you insist on using an acronym, MOSS 2007 or MOSS are acceptable. I think I'll stick with SharePoint.
Office 2007 Ready in October; Retail and OEM in January 2007 March 29, 2006
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According to a press release from Microsoft, Office 2007 will be available to volume license business customers in October. The rest of the world gets access in January 2007.
RSS on My Yahoo! March 29, 2006
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Yahoo! has finally implemented RSS for its My Yahoo! personalization pages. You can display any RSS feed on your My Yahoo! pages. I first started using My Yahoo! around 1998. I really liked being able to build a Web page and subscribe to news content. Unfortunately, I was equally put off by the banner ads and limited amount of news content available.
Frustrated by the lack of choices, I abandoned My Yahoo! in 2000 and built my own custom Web site. I really wanted a Web based RSS aggregator so I could access my feeds from anywhere. I downloaded the entire NewsIsFree database and rotated feeds out on my home page. I had pages that featured RSS feeds for politics, economics, government, science, health, technology, and entertainment. It was hosted on my Computer Science department's Web server. After I graduated, they took it down, and I forgot about it.
Five years later I can consume RSS feeds in My Yahoo! pages. The interface is a little clunky, but it's workable. I modified the WordPress 'Link This' bookmarklet to allow me to add a RSS feed to My Yahoo! without going through all the regular 'add content' steps. Here's the bookmarklet:
javascript:void(linkmanpopup=window.open
('http://us.rd.yahoo.com/my/atm/Publisher/FeedName/
http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url='
+escape(location.href),'LinkManager',
'scrollbars=yes,width=750,height=550,
left=15,top=15,status=yes,resizable=yes'));
linkmanpopup.focus();window.focus();linkmanpopup.focus();
Hello Gmail March 16, 2006
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I’ve had a Gmail account for awhile, but I’ve never really used it. I already have so many email accounts to check. Until yesterday, they were all consolidated in Outlook. After taking another look at Gmail, I’ve decided to give it a go. The feature that sealed the deal for me was being able to impersonate my other email accounts. When I send an e-mail, I can click the From address that I want to use. That was my main reason for using Outlook. Of course, I had to have my own SMTP server, which was a pain. With Gmail, I can eliminate Outlook and Ypops from desktop, and eliminate SMTP from my server.
I have most of my accounts set up to automatically forward to Gmail. I’ve saved my main account, because I want to have some time to play around with Gmail before I go completely off Outlook. But so far I really like it.
Fun and Games with the Data Source Configuration Wizard March 16, 2006
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Sigh. I’ve been working on the data chapters for the book I’m writing about Visual Studio 2005. I decided to use the Adventure Works sample database because M$ recommends it with SQL Server 2005. Unfortunately, the database makes extensive use of schemas, and the Data Source Configuration Wizard in ASP.NET doesn’t understand schemas. (Works like a champ in Windows apps!) Sure, you can make a connection and see database objects. But the resulting SQL doesn’t fully qualify the table’s name. You can even browse the data all day long in Server Explorer, but when it comes time to run the query, you get an invalid object error.
There are a few workarounds:
- Manually edit the commands generated by the wizard
- Use the Query Builder
- Run the synonym script that creates synonyms for all the table objects
I decided to manually edit the commands. That allows me to walk the user completely through wizard. Eventually, the wizard will be able to handle schemas, and this will be a non-issue.
One other thing, the table object name is case-sensitive. To access the Department table, your FROM clause must read HumanResources.Department or [HumanResources].[Department].
Google 404 March 7, 2006
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Check out the 404 error that I received from Google this morning. I must’ve hit the server during a reboot or something.
