So I admit it, I have gone against Microsoft's best practices and used Microsoft Excel on a server and had my web-based code call the Interop COM Library in order to generate Excel files. Sorry, but it works, and the code is managed and free. I won't lie, I love using Microsoft.Office.Interop...
For my work I'm using a laptop that has several operating systems installed. Depending on the customer related work, e.g. office work, giving presentations and developing software, I'm booting one of these environments. My multi-boot installation consists of several environments including: Windows...
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Since last week I am using Windows 7 as my primary operating system, specifically it is Windows 7 RC 64-bit edition build 7100. Yesterday I installed Windows Virtual PC beta so I can continue to use virtual machines. I use virtual machines for different usage scenario’s, mostly for SharePoint and Microsoft...
If you normally would like to install a language pack for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 service pack 1 product, you have to make sure you both install the retail version related language pack and the service pack related language pack. You can automate this process by slipstreaming the...
I just read a post announcing the availability of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 beta in a few weeks to selected testers. SP2 for Windows Server 2008, have I missed Service Pack 1? No, Windows Server 2008 is released as Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1, see Ian McDonalds blog post . Windows Server...
While doing some SharePoint 2007 development on Windows Server 2008, I noticed the IISAPP command doesn´t exist anymore. The command does not exist in IIS7 anymore. The syntax to view a list of IIS7 running application pools is: %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list wp Thanks to Steve Schofield
When running SharePoint on Windows Server 2008, make sure you activate the Desktop Experience server feature. Without activating this feature you can't save documents directly from your Microsoft Office application into a SharePoint Document Library.
As follow up on my previous post regarding the new capabilities in BizTalk Server 2006 R3 the following question may rise: What’s with UDDI, doesn’t Windows server 2008 have UDDI? As part of this next BizTalk Server release, Microsoft will be transitioning the packaging/distribution of Microsoft’s...