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I recently created a custom service application administration page which collected a username and password of a service account. I wanted to display a warning to the user if they were not on a secure HTTPS channel, similar to the one that SharePoint provides when you attempt to start the User Profile Synchronization service. In…
This article will show you how to use a SearchBoxEx control on a custom branded MySite Host site collection.
I was recently working on an administrative page for Central Administration, and had the need to use an AudienceEditor control in a form, and more difficult yet, use it inside an AJAX UpdatePanel. The AudienceEditor is the control that is used to enable a user to pick audiences, such as on the Target Audience field…
Registering my company for a Windows Phone 7 App Hub Marketplace account was not an easy or obvious process. One of the big problems is the use of Windows Live ID as the authentication mechanism. Live ID is a system designed for individual users, which in the App Hub is being unrealistically stretched to apply…
I recently had my blog moved to a different server at my web host, and after the move, I couldn’t connect Windows LiveWriter with my blog anymore. I would get an error "Invalid Server Reponse – The response to the blogger.getUserBlogs method received from the blog server was invalid." I found this post which was…