Developers, Developers, Developers

This is your chance to tell what you think about Microsoft! Invitation for The Microsoft New Zealand Developers Focus Groups 2008! Microsoft wants to hear from you. Tell what you love and hate about Microsoft! Every year Microsoft uses your feedback to improve their products and services. This year... [More]

SharePoint - Hiding Menu Items from the Edit Control Block

If you want to add a menu item to the Edit Control Block(ECB) in SharePoint, you can do so by writing a new Feature. But if you want to hide some of the  menu items, you cannot do so by writing a Feature. SharePoint uses its JavaScript file - core.js to render the ECB. MSDN has an excellent art... [More]

Consuming WCF Service in SharePoint

Today, I had to consume a WCF Service in my SharePoint Feature. I was sure of not using svcutil or Visual Studio 2008's Add Service Reference because that adds extra files that I might need to consider deploying along with my SharePoint solution. So, how do we consume our service ? Below are the ba... [More]

WCF – Handling Errors – Part 2

In my last post, we saw how we can handle Errors using FaultContracts and FaultExceptions. WCF framework is always extendable and thus we can extend the behavior of a service too. This leads us to the question – “So, Can I extend the service to accept all the Exceptions and possibly se... [More]