Rob Garrett - Blogs

June 2006 - Posts

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Essentials

  WSS 3.0 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a royalty free add-on to Windows Server 2003, and provides business users with multiple web site provisioning, collaboration tools, and document management functionality. Moreover, WSS is a rich development Read More... Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:42 PM by Rob Garrett | 9 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint

• RDP -> Gateway -> VPN -> Corporate

  One of the frustrating things about VPN is that it kills active RDP sessions on the client once the VPN connection is established. Sure, this isn't the typical approach in the use of VPN and RDP, but in my case I wanted to RDP to a single machine at home Read More... Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 2:41 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Hosting Microsoft Live.com Gadgets in your ASP.NET Application

  OK, this has to be one of the most asked questions about Microsoft Live.com gadgets (except perhaps the question - "Are Vista Gadgets and Live.com Gadgets the same?") - How to host Microsoft Live.com gadgets in my own ASP.NET applications? Sounds like Read More... Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 2:33 PM by Rob Garrett | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint, ASP.NET

• Curiosity killed the Network

  Secure Network Technologies Inc is a company responsible for providing many business related security services. One of those services includes security auditing of participating organizations. I had to laugh as I read a report submitted to Dark Reading, Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:46 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Dilbert and the Blackberry

  This ever happen to you? Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 10:57 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• HDTV in Window Media Center Edition

  So, I have a computer with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 installed, in my living room. This PC has a dual tuner Hauppauge PVR-500 TV card, and a high performance graphics card. I have recently purchased 48” widescreen TV, and the next thing on Read More... Posted Monday, June 05, 2006 11:41 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Publish Blog Content from MS Word 2007

  Microsoft Word 2007 has this cool new feature to allow you to publish content directly to your blog. This post that you are reading originated from my installation of Word 2007 Beta 2. It even manages pictures for if you specify an ftp location (well Read More... Posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:00 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Custom Membership Provider under Minimal Trust in SharePoint 2007

  Overview This document is a systematic instruction sheet for creating and installing an ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider into SharePoint 2007 Beta 2 installation. This document assumes the reader is familiar with ASP.NET 2.0, SharePoint 2007 Beta 2, and Read More... Posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:00 PM by Rob Garrett | 62 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint

• C# Value Types and Ranges

  Just because it's good to know..... Keyword Class Range bool System.Boolean true and false byte System.Byte 0 to 255 sbyte System.SByte -128 to 127 short System.Int16 -32768 to 32767 ushort System.Uint16 0 to 65535 int System.Int32 -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 Read More... Posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:59 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments