Posts Tagged ‘.net’

One of the more frustrating things to deal with when supporting a production application is “flying blind” when trying to determine what went wrong and how to fix it.  In today’s post, I will discuss some commonly used techniques for handling exceptions in .NET code that prevent visibility into the real source of error and […]

One of my colleagues at Perficient was recognized today by our partner, Sitecore. Jamie Stump, a developer, consultant and blogger here, was named a 2013 Sitecore Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Sitecore describes the MVP program in this way: The Sitecore MVP program recognizes individuals for their active participation within the Sitecore community, sharing knowledge and […]

MSDN has a neat web part you can use for polls – Quick Surveys. Unfortunately the link to read more leads to an error. Since I had to figure out what might have been at that mysterious location, I figured I’d document the findings. I made some minor updates to the code to work a […]

Let’s say you want to create a SharePoint lookup field where the dropdown options display something other than title of the lookup item… If the field you want to show is a single line of text type, then you’re in luck! Here’s an example of how straighforward it is. However, if you want to be able to […]

When I’m not delving into Microsoft technologies, I enjoy making music. A Christmas gift that I received turned out to be an unlikely trigger to make me think about usability. That gift was a book with transcriptions of some popular sax solos and included Money by Pink Floyd. This song is a bit unique in […]

Have you made your New Year’s Resolution around Microsoft Dynamics CRM? Well it is that time of year again to set New Year’s Resolutions for all of us. According to USA.gov the top New Year’s Resolutions are: Drink Less Alcohol Eat Healthy Food Get a Better Education Get a Better Job Get Fit Lose Weight […]

Both Sitecore and ASP.NET MVC both provide a development model that allows for distinct boundaries to be created between data, application logic, and presentation logic.  The purpose of this post is to describe the manner in which these capabilities can be utilized within a Sitecore MVC solution to provide content authors with the ability to […]

This is the first post in a new series called “Exploring C#”. The purpose of this series is to explore areas of the language, and the .NET framework in general, that are very useful, easily overlooked, or that I perceive are not well known. Virtually all applications have literals in them. It is best practice […]

I was recently working on some code that added items to a SharePoint list based on a user’s input from an InfoPath form. It was an easy task until I got to a choice column. I wasn’t sure of the syntax for setting the value of a choice column, and for some reason, all of […]

I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in Orlando, FL. http://bit.ly/CVSPEAK25 I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · Developing Mobile Solutions with Azure and Windows Phone · Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL […]

I was recently asked to develop a PIN Pad for an ASP.NET MVC3 mobile web application for users to use to log into the application.  I had to use the PIN Pad in three locations in the application: 1) register the PIN for a new user, 2) confirming the PIN registration, and 3) logging in […]

As discussed in the post earlier, SharePoint 2013 allows you to write Apps which can extend the functionalities your SharePoint website provides. Primarily an App can be divided into two categories depending upon where its components reside: SharePoint hosted App – Major pieces of an App are on SharePoint server with business logic and presentational […]