March 2011 - SharePoint Longhorn

Silverlight with RIA Services GroupBy in a DataGrid

March 28, 2011 jhimmel

There are lots of examples for Silverlight 3 and before when System.ComponentModel was directly accessible, however in Silverlight 4 with RIA Services none of those patterns work. We looked at the sample videos, some great blogs by Tim Heuer and others, and even looked at the most recent Silverlight Toolkit but had no luck. After an hour or searching for the proper way to do grouping in a DataGrid in Silverlight 4 with RIA Services we found that it is…

Now powered by SharePoint Foundation 2010

March 12, 2011 jhimmel

Since my world is already mostly SharePoint 2010, I figured it was time to move my blog from Blogger, which has been a great starter experience, to something I am more familiar with, SharePoint Foundation 2010. I am blessed with many friends who had offered me space on their servers rather than needing to stand up another on at my house to worry about, and I finally took one of them up on the offer. In the coming days you…

SharePoint 2010 & Site Directory revisited: bug fix request rejected by Microsoft

March 2, 2011 jhimmel

We received the official, and well thought out, answer back from Microsoft regarding the Site Directory bug that I reported on with my post “SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory” back in December 2010. Here is the official answer from Microsoft: Issue Summary Site collection creation fails with access denied error when the master site directory site collection is located on a web application which is using the new claims aware authentication method. Cause for Rejection and Technical Explanation…

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