I’m working on a project where a client has a couple of Line of Business (LOB) systems that need to be connected to SharePoint 2010.We’re using Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to integrate them with SharePoint.For extensibility and maintainability reasons, we’re using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to connect to the LOB systems, which usually involve some […]
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Enterprise Architecture: Principles and Patterns
I just finished reading Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarelo’s book Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. This is a great book and a must read for anyone who is architecting enterprise grade solutions on the Microsoft development platform. The book is not strictly technology specific and includes a lot of general purpose information on […]
Extension Methods as a Form of Multiple Inheritance – Pros and Cons
Extension methods in C# provide a mechanism for adding functionality to a class when you do not control the source code to that class. Most often, extension methods are used as a means of syntactically treating external utility methods as though they were methods on the class itself. In this use, the main difference between […]
Creating a Numeric Navigator with an Ajax Chart Slider
As part of a FAST search proof of concept, I got the opportunity recently to create slightly more advanced navigator than the typical text-based set of hyperlinks. I used the FAST ESP WebParts (available on CodePlex) as a starting point and the Dundas Chart control as the basis for the Ajax user interface. Getting the […]
How to create a Document Set using C#
I decided to expand on one of Travis Nielson’s posts called Introducing Documents Sets. Being the eternal developer that I am I decided to write a blog on how to create a Document Set using C# and the new object model for SP2010. In trying to figure out how to do this, I though […]