Looking at the first MCMS book (Building websites using MCMS) we received one 4-star review and four 5-star reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews here. And I just saw that our second MCMS book (Advanced MCMS development) got three 5-star reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews here. And our 3rd book focusing on integrating MCMS with […]
As some of you might already heard of: Lim Mei Ying (MCMS MVP), Spencer Harber (MCMS MVP) and myself are currently working on a book that covers enhancing MCMS websites using ASP.NET 2.0 features. It will deal with all the glitches of properly installing MCMS with VS.NET 2005 and SQL 2005, known issues and for […]
As I dicussed earlier MCMS is not supported with Team Foundation Server. The reason is that the developer tools shipped with MCMS are incompatible with Team Foundation Server and raise an exception when items are checked in. This might be a significant design limitation for customers, so I spent some time to identify a workaround […]
[Via Somesegar] …we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework… Read more…
[Via Andrew Connell] Now if this isn’t just damn cool!!! On this site you can add content to VS 2005 documentation topics and edit contributions from other users. Our goal is to extend the documentation with code examples, tips and tricks, and other information that you add. And they’ve even added RSS feeds! MSDN Wiki […]
Although not officially supported, MCMS 2002 SP2 works fine with Web Parts as I outlined earlier. A couple of weeks ago Ali Mazaheri, a collegue from Microsoft Consulting Services contacted me to get some tips as he had to create a proof of concept for using ASP.NET Web Parts on MCMS template files. The requirements were […]
Ryan Donovan has posted a nice article with an explanation on the future of Commerce Server 2006 Integration with MCMS: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2006/03/03/543073.aspx
I have posted a solution for this problem in a subsection of this article but someone who is just looking on how to get AJAX working in general might not find it easily. The probem with AJAX is that the client does a silent postback from Javascript using the Microsoft.XMLHTTP COM object. This technique is […]
Microsoft had to modify the behavior of ActiveX controls due to an existing patent from Eolas on this technology. See here for more details on this. After the change ActiveX controls embedded in the html code of a web page have to be activated manually by a user – e.g. through a click on the […]
I just got the information from a customer that a feature in the Telerik placeholder control can lead to broken resource links on the live site and to the following error message during authoring mode: Save Placeholder Failed———————————————————–Error Details:The current user does not have rights to edit the requested item. If you are seeing this exception […]
Lawrence Liu has posted a list of documents which should be read before starting to install the MOSS 2007 Beta 2: Please read this before installing Beta 2
Microsoft has released a set of training videos for Office 2007 – as well for the client and for the server parts: Office 2007 New User Experience Part 1.wmv Office 2007 New User Experience Part 2.wmv Office 2007 Developing In Word 2007.wmv Office 2007 Core Excel Advances.wmv Office 2007 InfoPath Forms In Outlook.wmv Office 2007 […]
