Month: April 2013

SP2010: The hidden TaxonomyStaplerFeature

I am a big fan of keeping things clean. The more you clutter, the more chance of faults you might not have expected. Today, I learned that sometimes cleaner is not better. I like using the blank site template to create new sites. Most people tend to use the team site, but that already has

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Column: Sapstromen

Een paar weken terug hoorde ik voor ‘t eerst over sapstromen. Het schijnt dat planten die nodig hebben om blaadjes te krijgen en in de winter doen ze het dus blijkbaar niet. Het was een paar dagen lekker weer en meteen verwachtte heel Nederland dat zijn of haar tuintje wel in volle bloei zou staan. Niks

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WCF service using Azure relay and ADFS authentication (2/2)

In the second part of this article (read part 1 here), we’re going to extend our relayed service with AD (Active Directory) authentication. In most cases you’ll need authentication to provide some security for your business data. In this example, we’re keeping it simple; just using a valid domain account to access the data. All

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WCF service using Azure relay and ADFS authentication (1/2)

What I’m going to write about in this two-part article is what could be considered quite a common scenario. Your company wants to expose data to its employees outside of the internal network. Take a mobile app (or Windows 8 app) for instance, which gets its data from a legacy back-end system. In “old fashioned”

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Installing a windows service with Visual Studio 2012

Since Visual Studio 2012, the default installer project was switched for a limited edition of InstallShield. I won’t get into the discussion whether this was a step forward or backward, but it’s there. When you’re building an installer for Windows Service, you might get stuck in the situation where the installer is deploying your files

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