Fixing the "No reverse USB tethering" issue on custom Android ROM
Fri, 10/07/2011 - 06:59 — sylvain
A couple of days ago, in a galaxy far far away, I rooted my HTC Desire HD and flashed the ROM in favor of CyanogenMod.
WCF binding problems
Mon, 10/03/2011 - 12:18 — sylvain
Today I was busy setting up a WCF service for some interoperabillity with another system.
Client side validation for your user controls
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 12:07 — sylvainWhen building user controls in .NET, you sometimes want them validated, just like the default .NET controls.
RegisterPostBackControl doesn't seem to work
Mon, 07/04/2011 - 10:01 — sylvain
For this customer I'm working for, I built a generic attachment control. This control takes 2 types, one implementing an ICanHaveAttachment interface and the other implementing an IAttachment interface. The ICanHaveAttachment implementations are, in my case, partial EF models which all can have attachments.
This file cannot be saved because some properties are missing or invalid.
Fri, 04/01/2011 - 11:40 — sylvain
This customer came back to me with an issue they were experiencing.
SharePoint 2007 & SQL Server Reporting Services
Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:57 — sylvain
The second time I try to integrate SSRS with MOSS, and the second time it starts with horrible failure.
Normally, when you install the SSRS SharePoint addon, you get a new section in CA, named "Reporting Services". Not in my case... Trying a repair on the addon didn't help. Uninstalling it and going back to the 2005 version didn't work. Not much left to try here, except for...
Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device
Fri, 03/11/2011 - 08:01 — sylvain
I use an external USB disk as a repository store for subversion. When I tried to plug it in this morning, I noticed it not showing in Explorer. I thought nothing of it and stuck it in another port. Still nothing. That was kind of worrying. Going to Device Manager, there was an exclamation mark next to the device, which was even more worrying because why wouldn't Windows be able to load drivers for a friggin' hard disk...
The device status field in device properties said:
The expected version of the product was not found on the system
Thu, 03/10/2011 - 22:58 — sylvainThis problem presents itself when you try to run a cumulative update. In my case it happened when configuring a new system. I installed MOSS+SP2 x64. Then ran the July 2009 CU and after that installed the language pack. Then I tried to restore a backup of a site collection and that came back with a
Fixing the "Your search cannot be completed because of a service error." error
Tue, 03/08/2011 - 11:55 — sylvain
Today I kept running into this nasty exception. It happened after I had modified the custom advanced search page to something more graphical. Instead of having the users select metadata properties from a dropdown, they can use this nice table, which they are used to, to provide metadata property values to the search engine.
Custom advanced search page
Thu, 02/24/2011 - 18:35 — sylvain
Today, I finished my customized advanced search web part. As per customer's request the web part contains a textbox for entering search terms, a list with checkboxes for selecting scopes from a displaygroup and some metadata properties, as shown in the screenshot.
Building the form wasn't that big of a problem. Getting it to work was something else...
Basics
If you take a look at the reflected code of the AdvancedSearchBox and CoreResultsWebPart and the output of that AdvancedSearchBox webpart there are some things that come to mind: