Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
I recently upgraded my computer from Windows Vista to Windows 7. And while setting up my computer, I discovered that the Microsoft Surface SDK only works on Windows Vista. I am not going to lie, but I was very disappointed and could not see why the SDK could not work on Windows 7. Hence, I went ahead and searched …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
.MSI files can act strangely at times. Causing us to explode in anger as to why it decided that it must check your disk for space requirements. Is this a sign that I must take a break and get a cup of coffee? Hence, I clicked on “Return” on the above message and took a …
Written by: Christopher H. Lincoln
Tooltips may be implemented to greatly improve user experience in many scenarios. This walkthrough will provide a method with which tooltip functionality may be implemented on SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) using XSL and JavaScript. Preparation Open the SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer 2007 Open the page on which the tooltip functionality will be implemented Enable either …
Written by: Gitendra Malla
On an early Thursday morning last August, I walked into the office with a hole in my stomach. Following my regular routine, I went to the kitchen area and tossed two loaves of bread into the great belly of the toaster oven, which boasts a 12 inch pizza capacity. As usual, I waited for the …
Written by: Jorge "El Che" Vasquez
If you ever lost a phone, you know how it feels to know that all the data that you had saved on your phone is gone. All those pictures, music and contacts are gone with the phone. It happened to me and it was a royal pain to recover a small portion of what I …
Written by: Hector Portillo
The introduction of master pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has made it easy for designers like me to customize the look and feel of SharePoint sites. I had created and customized master pages and user controls in .Net applications using Visual Studio. I was feeling right at home when I opened my first …
Written by: Lee Kohn
If you’ve ever installed Windows as a VM with only one CPU only to find out that you need two you’re in luck! Here is a guide on how to do it. (Note that multiple CPUs are only supported by some virtualization programs such as VMWare Server, VMWare ESX and Microsoft Virtual Server) Shutdown the …
Written by: Janis Hall
Ok… so you’ve done it, you’ve dared to click the ‘Add Web Part’ button and have ‘ooohhed’ and ‘ahhhed’ at the enormous list of available Web Parts. Of course, each Web Part provides its own special function that can lend support to how content is displayed on your site. Through trial and error I have …
Written by: Lee Kohn
When installing CRM 4.0 you may get a error in the last bit of the installer that says: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.ProvisionBusinessAction failed. A referral was returned from the server. After lots of googling for answers and not finding any I decided to run WireShark and actually look at the communication going on between the installer and …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
MetroStar Systems was a sponsor of the 2009 Politics Online Conference [#polc09] in Washington, DC on Monday, April 20 & Tuesday, April 21 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (www.itcdc.com). The conference was hosted by the Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet, GWU’s Graduate School of Political Management, and Campaigns and …
