Bits and bobs

Ok… I’ve been thinking long and hard about this service, and it seems as though SharePoint doesn’t play that nice with recurring events. Seems like my pervious post did nothing with recurring events. This is a problem, especially since I originally wrote this service to notify me of birthdays. I looked into several options in dealing with recurring events, and rather then writing my own translator to get the actual date, and having to find all the errors and oversights, I thought I would use some proven translation to resolve the problem. I found the easiest solution was to translate the SharePoint recurrence format to the standard iCal format , I found a really good resource here which led me to the actual translation code on codeplex which I just pinched and put in my own code. Then I found a really good iCal translator by Doulas Day (DDay.iCal)to translate this code to actual usable dates. I then injected this code and assembly into my SharePoint.Notifier solution and wrapped it ...

I've just downloaded and am in the process of testing a post using Windows live writer. And I can safely say, I really like this product. Finally Microsoft are getting it. I'm even using a Google blog site, and it just integrates directly to the blog. I never though Microsoft would allow another vendor to so easily integrate with their software. This is so nice, all the major IT companies playing nice together

I have been tinkering with SharePoint for quite some time now. but only as a secondary system/tool to do some out of the box functionality which was just cheaper to do, rather then writing our own bit of functionality. So I am no Sharepoint expert, by any stretch of the imagination. After finding the calendar list, I thought wow. I'm going to set this up at home and have all my event emailed to me so I don't forget. Was this too much to ask?? Apparently so. Shaerpoint has a facility to alert me when a new event is entered, so I know that it knows how to email, but why does it not email alert reminders when the event actually happens? This to me, seems like logical out of the box functionality. So why is it not there? I had a look on google for a solution, but found the only option out there was for paid add-in. As with all other sharepoint add-in's, none of them are free. I wonder why sharepoint doesn't have a good open source community? could it be that sharepoint is s...

I am currently working on a project for LL and a good developer I know ( John Liu ) wrote a little piece of code which took a configuration section from the config file and transformed it into a class, with very little code. Amazing!!! I'm referring to the .Net 2.0 configuration class. this little beauty lets you add a custom configuration section to your config and with a few def attributes, lets you wire up the config settings to properties within a class. I started trying to understand how this works, and found it was very difficult to find the information I was looking for on the net. So I decided to write my own point of reference, so that I dont forget it. (Just because it is so cool) First off, let have a look at the key points to making this work. The Config file Notice the config section which needs a name and the assembly name of the class which will be parsing this config file in this case Notfication and Sharepoint.Notifier.Config.NotificationCollection, Sharepoint.Noti...