Written by: Derek Yale
MetroStar Systems has implemented Microsoft’s Pivot technology to create a new way to search Supernova: Visually! If you haven’t checked it out yet, give it a try by clicking here and see what catches your eye!
Written by: Lee Kohn
Have you ever needed to inject some JavaScript into a web-page contained in a WebBrowser control and then run said code? If you have then you’re in luck; here is some sample code which accomplishes exactly that in a console application (the same code works for a WinForms application with a few tweaks): using System; …
Written by: Gerald Irish
About to embark on an enterprise content management project and haven’t yet chosen which product to use? You are in luck because I have compiled a handy decision tree to help you decide. This is version 1.0, hopefully domain-experts in Drupal and Joomla can help me flesh this out a little more. I’ll also probably …
Written by: John Foley
I just installed Adobe Captivate 4 on my Windows 7, 64 bit machine. The install went smoothly, meaning the progress glided towards the right without changing pace. The first error arose when I attempted to create a software simulation with Captivate. After I completed the recording, I received the error message “Failure to copy audio …
Written by: Lee Kohn
Here are some handy links if you are interested in customizing SharePoint 2010′s ribbon UI: http://sharepointegg.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-button-from-ribbon-in-sharepoint.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff407290.aspx Also if you need to find the IDs/Locations etc… of existing elements in the ribbon you can find them in this file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\CMDUI.xml -Lee
Written by: Lee Kohn
Today I had the pleasure of taking a SharePoint solution which had been built against 2007 and migrating it to 2010. The whole process went much smoother than I had originally thought although I did learn a couple of things: Anything stored in the session state must be marked as serializable This was simply an oversight in …
Written by: Lee Kohn
Yesterday I was testing an ASP .Net page within SharePoint which contained a SharePoint People Editor control which was acting rather ‘strange’. It would render in an odd kind of way and removing a person from the control would cause the entire text box to be removed from the DOM! I was convinced that there …
Written by: Lee Kohn
If you ever find yourself modifying data within SharePoint using custom ASP .Net pages, you will undoubtedly have run into errors regarding the pages security validation being invalid. Rather than disabling security validation, which can leave your pages open to XSS attacks, follow the recommendations in the following blog post regarding using the FormDigest tag …
Written by: Jenni Hubacher
Our CEO, Ali Manouchehri, was recently interviewed on Federal News Radio (1500 AM). He was featured on Francis Rose‘s “In Depth“ show that airs Monday-Friday from 1pm-3pm. The interview was part of Mr. Rose’s “Industry Chatter” series and they discussed President Obama’s memo on Transparency and Open Government (pdf), the Open Government directive that followed, …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
Press Release: Government Ready Contest Solution Enables Social Media Community Growth and Engagement RESTON, VA, March 24 /PRNewswire/ – MetroStar Systems, a leader in full-service information technology (IT) and strategies for new media and social networks, today announced the launch of its new contest platform, Votridea, which is optimized for government use. Votridea fosters innovation …
