More MCMS news from TechEd USA 2005 – details from Arpan
Arpan has added a blog entry with additional and more official details on the future of MCMS: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/06/08/426910.aspx
Stefan Goßner
Explanation for background processing steps
Today I received a question on the newsgroup about what the different steps of the background processing job are doing as this is not properly documented. Here is the list of all the steps and what they are doing: Step 1) Process expired postings This step does what it says: it deletes expired postings. This […]
MCMS news from TechEd USA 2005
[via Andrew Connell] Andrew Connell is currently at TechEd in Orlando and had a chance to attend the MCMS session from Arpan Shah who announced interesting information about MCMS: MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2: Expect this to be released after the .NET Framwork 2.0 is released (BTW: today’s keynote at TechEd announced that Visual Studio .NET 2005 […]
Neil found a bug in my PropertyAuthoringServerControl
My control to allow direct editing of property values during edit time contained a small bug in the time compare function for Start and Expiration Date. I already uploaded the new version to GotDotNet but it might take some days for the new version to show up. To correct the problem just replace the following […]
Glen uses unsupported methods to manipulate the MCMS database
Glen has written an article that outlines how to manipulate the MCMS database using unsupported methods by simulating the XML stream coming from Site Manager. Using this method is unsupported and willl break the Microsoft Support Boundaries for MCMS. The same arguments as listed here do also apply to this method. And again: I really don’t […]
Major update to my Webauthor extension for configured Tree View, List View, Paging
I would like to let you known that I recently uploaded a new version of my Web Author Extension to GotDotNet. The new version now also supports persistence of settings in a cookie. Whenever a user opens a dialog again he will see the same settings he choosed last time. This has been an often […]
Tracing and Exception Catching using Trace Listeners
The .NET framework ships with a very flexible tracing feature provided through the Trace class in the System.Diagnostics namespace. Debug.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(“My Debug Output”); Whenever you need to write some debug output just use Trace.WriteLine to send the debug output to a Trace Listener. In my project I have added some line of code to the […]
It is a bad idea to copy content from KB articles to a blog entry
Jawad has posted a blog entry about how to calculate the Cache Node Size for a MCMS site. Unfortunatelly he used the query from an KB article which has been updated a couple of month ago in his blog. Beside the fact that copying KB article content to a blog might be a copyright violation […]
I will be at Microsoft TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam!
Just got the confirmation that I will be able to attend the EMEA Tech-Ed this year in Amsterdam. I will mainly attend the sessions of the Portals and Collaboration track. In addition Arpan asked me to participate in the Ask the Expert program. So if someone would like to meet me in person: Tech-Ed would […]
Production Debugging for .NET Framework Applications (includes hands on labs)
Every developer or support engineer debugs applications at some stage in his or her career, yet debugging is often viewed as an arcane and difficult topic. While it is often difficult to determine why an application is hanging, leaking memory, or crashing, there are techniques you can apply to make the debugging process more productive […]
Update for my enhanced Web Author interface (sorting of dialogs)
Just want to let all of you know that I recently uploaded an updated version of my Web Author Extension to allow configuration of the standard web author dialogs (see here for details). The new version now also supports configured sorting of the revision history dialog. It can be downloaded using the link below: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=DD7F32CC-7543-4026-B858-69CC4A25EF99
MCMS tip of the day – revert posting to previous version
Most of you might have experienced the problem that a posting needs to be rolled back to a previous version – either because the author accidentily modified a wrong one or because the editor decides that the changes are not acceptable and rejects the changes. Although MCMS does provide the revision history browser to view […]