Original post: How To: exclude welcome pages in search results by Sven GillisMaybe you know there was a ‘welcome page search retrieval’ issue in SP 2007 – if not… take a look at http://svengillis.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-searchresults-for-content-available.html Fortunately, this issue has been fixed in SP 2010. In some cases, you still want to exclude welcome pages in the search results – just like in the old days. To do this follow the steps below: Navigate to the Search Service Application Make sure you did a full crawl on your content source Create a new rule in your search scope (all sites or whatever) as follow:By creating this rule you’ll eliminate the site URL (eg. /news) items. At this moment, the site default page URL is still included (/news/pages/default.aspx). In the next step ... [More]

Original post: Debugging SL apps with WinDebug or the Immediate Window to track memory leaks on a 64 bit machine by Kevin DockxToday (second day after my vacation :-)), I’ve been looking for a solution to a rather nasty memory leak in a Silverlight application.  Typically, you can do this in two ways: by using WinDebug, or through Visual Studio’s Immediate Window.   I’m not going to go into the specifics of both – there are already blog posts about that, you can find a nice overview on how to debug Silverlight apps using WinDBG by Delay, another one by Ning Zhang here, and an overview of using it with the Visual Studio Immediate Window here.   However, I stumbled upon a problem that kept me amused frustrated for a couple of hours.  To be able to debug Silverlight ap... [More]

Original post: Hybrid Azure applications using OData by Maarten BalliauwIn the whole Windows Azure story, Microsoft has always been telling you could build hybrid applications: an on-premise application with a service on Azure or a database on SQL Azure. But how to do it in the opposite direction? Easy answer there: use the (careful, long product name coming!) Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus to expose an on-premise WCF service securely to an application hosted on Windows Azure. Now how would you go about exposing your database to Windows Azure? Open a hole in the firewall? Use something like PortBridge to redirect TCP traffic over the service bus? Why not just create an OData service for our database and expose that over AppFabric Service Bus. In this post, I’ll show you... [More]

Original post: Using MEF as a simple DI-container by Friso De RidderLately I’ve been looking at MEF, more specifically at how I could use it as a simple DI-container. What I wanted to do was the following: Register the needed assemblies in the container Use the container as a factory from which I could request instances from certain types and that would resolve all the underlying dependencies for me Seems it is not that hard to accomplish. Watch and learn… public interface IUserRepository: IRepository { User Create(string userName, string password); } public interface IUserService { User Create(string userName, string password); } [Export(typeof(IUserService))] public class UserService: IUserService { private rea... [More]

Original post: Simplified access control using Windows Azure AppFabric Labs by Maarten Balliauw Earlier this week, Zane Adam announced the availability of the New AppFabric Access Control service in LABS. The highlights for this release (and I quote): Expanded Identity provider support - allowing developers to build applications and services that accept both enterprise identities (through integration with Active Directory Federation Services 2.0), and a broad range of web identities (through support of Windows Live ID, Open ID, Google, Yahoo, Facebook identities) using a single code base. WS-Trust and WS-Federation protocol support – Interoperable WS-* support is important to many of our enterprise customers. Full integration with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) - developer... [More]

Original post: Compare SharePoint Editions by Sven GillisA quick reference to compare SharePoint 2010 Editions (Foundation, Standard, Enterprise)

Original post: Charles Petzold’s free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Sandrino Di Mattia   Charles Petzold just released the second draft of his ebook on Windows Phone 7.It contains the following chapters:  Part I - The BasicsChapter 1   Hello, Windows Phone 7 Chapter 2   Getting Oriented Chapter 3   An Introduction to Touch Chapter 4   Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures Chapter 5   Sensors and Services Chapter 6   Issues in Application Architecture   Part II - SilverlightChapter 7   XAML Power and Limitations Chapter 8   Elements and Properties   Part III - XNAChapter 20   Principles of Movement Chapter 21   Textures and Sprites Chapter 22  ... [More]

Original post: MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released! by Maarten Balliauw The release for MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 has just been posted on CodePlex. MvcSiteMapProvider is, as the name implies, an ASP.NET MVC SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework. Targeted at ASP.NET MVC 2, it provides sitemap XML functionality and interoperability with the classic ASP.NET sitemap controls, like the SiteMapPath control for rendering breadcrumbs and the Menu control. Next to a brand new logo, the component has been patched up with several bugfixes, the visibility attribute is back (in a slightly cooler reincarnation) and a number of new extension points have been introduced. Let’s give you a quick overview… Extension points MvcSit... [More]

Original post: Attaching detached objects to NHibernate session by Kristof DegraveWhile I was developing for my customer I suddenly received a NonUniqueObjectException while deleting some data. NHibernate.NonUniqueObjectException: a different object with the same identifier value was already associated with the session: 58372, of class: … The problem I suffered from was that I was deleting the “same” object twice. The issue is that NHibernate knows that these objects are the same, although the objects have different object references. One of my objects was a detached object that came from and was deleted in the GUI. The second object came from a fetch of data to fill a non-mapped collection. The objects in this collection have a reference to the object we want to delete. Because this re... [More]

Original post: Material RealDolmen Brains Session: Design Patterns (part 2) online by Friso De RidderThe slide deck and code samples of the Design Patterns (part 2) brains session from 30/06/2010 can be downloaded from the RealDolmen portal. Note: only accessable for RealDolmen employees.