Just wrapped up a project developing a custom metadata editor to plugin to the Colligo Contributor for SharePoint client. If you aren’t familiar with Colligo, it’s a desktop client application/outlook add-in/explorer file manager, that enables users to save documents or emails directly to SharePoint, and be prompted for metadata at the time of saving. Colligo…

I’ve been writing a slurry of code to return list item XML so that it can be parsed and consumed by AJAX components on the client side. Since Lists.asmx does not work in anonymous access scenarios, I’ve been creating many proxy .ashx Http Handlers installed in the LAYOUTS directory, to query via the object model…

Windows Azure Improvements since last year: Support PHP, CGI, Apache, other frameworks Expose very low-level programming efforts (not just .NET). Example was a C++ app with pointers exposed as an Azure service Identity framework (support passing tokens from federated locations i.e. onsite AD instance) SQL Azure Improvements since last year: Not just RESTful consumption of…

[rating:2] I’m implementing the AKS for a customer, and I’m having a hard time understanding how this product actually made it to a public release. It feels like a product that is half finished, that was used as a springboard to creating a commercial product, while leaving the original free version to the wayside. If…

The implementation of the BDC entity picker dialog (opened with the Browse button) can cause some firewall and security software to think a worm or sql injection attack is happening and block the traffic. The manner in which properties and entity IDs are encoded into long query string values makes the urls appear to be…