Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
Technical / January 21, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 3
The last few weeks I’ve been struggling with a problem for which I couldn’t seem to find a solution. I tried implementing the Faceted Search solution found on Codeplex: http://facetedsearch.codeplex.com/. With this solution, it’s possible to enhance the search options of SharePoint to show search facets. With these facets, the user is able to narrow
Technical / January 19, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Just returned from two days of fun @ SharePoint Connections 2010! Great conference with lots of excellent speakers including Steve Fox, Jan Tielens and Richard Taylor (and many more offcourse). Got to see some pretty exciting things, primarily about SharePoint 2010 (duh), Visual Studio 2010 and the new developer stuff which that combination brings. I’ll
Technical / December 9, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Many people seem to have the same error in their log files: “Invalid object name ‘AR_CacheCounters’.” It’s not clear where it’s coming from, or how to solve it. I’ve searched some hours looking for a solution, but I could only find some indications it could have something to do with search. I finally just tried
Technical / December 9, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I’m playing around with the new 2010 apps a bit. Offcourse I’ve got a SharePoint 2010 environment in which I also added Project Server 2010. I’ve also installed the client, since the installation gave me the option to leave my existing 2007 installation in it’s place. Now for some reason, the 2010 client wouldn’t connect to
Technical / December 9, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
A colleague of mine had a question about a calculated column. He wanted to link an expire date to documents in a document library, but users would have to choose a retention period of 1-10 years. Not that hard if you create two site columns; one of type ‘choose’ which presents the options 1-10 in
Technical / November 17, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
I was struggling a bit with my FBA users in SharePoint. I’ve created a customer portal setup in which BDC data is shown. But FBA added users aren’t allowed to view BDC data by default, not even when you add groups like authenticated users and Everyone to the BDC permissions list. When you want to
Technical / October 1, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Today I was working on a Pocket PC app using Compact Framework 3.5. The app ran fine on the VS emulator, but when I finally deployed to the actual Pocket PC devices, it started throwing exceptions. The exceptions being thrown were of the type NotSupportException with the message System.Globalization.CultureInfo. Yeah great error message guys, I can really
Technical / September 30, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
I faced a problem on my development machine. The following symptoms were visible: 1. The services.msc window only displayed the “standard” tab correctly. The extended / advanced tab was broken and only displayed the topleft blue bar. No text, no services, nothing. 2. In my Project installation (2007 office client) all the web panes broke.
Miscellaneous / September 15, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Because a lot of people keep e-mailing me about the code I wrote for the Crystal Reports webpart, I decided to make it available for purchase. Unfortunately not for free, since my boss seems to think I have to get paid for the work I do. If you are interested in buying the webpart (it’s
Technical / August 8, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
A few weeks ago I started working on a project which involved a ADO.NET Data Service. This is a way of bringing your datalayer online and letting clients query and update entities in your datalayer (database) through RESTful webservices. Locally everything was working fine, I tested the entire project and after fixing most bugs I