Paul Devenney

Word 2007 Content Placeholders and the Word 2003 plugin for Office 2007

It's to Microsofts credit that they have provided a plugin for Word 2003 that will allow the reading of a Word 2007 .docx file. And it (mostly) works. If however you need to use some of the new features office 2007 - such as the content placeholders you'll fin Read More

Forms Authentication in MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0 - Not all that...

One of the great heralded features of the latest SharePoint release has been the integration of forms authentication Membership/role providers from ASP.NET 2.0, essentially allowing seamless integration of any list of users from any datasource to Authenticate Read More

Errors Switching to Edit Site Mode in CMS 2002

Apologies for using images to display code snippets. Blogger is not quite there yet, and strangely it conplains when you add a script tag in your blog post ;) Up until now whenever a colleague or client tells me that they can't switch to "edit site mode" in CM Read More

A Simple Enforced Source Control for SQL using Team Foundation

One of the major issues in rolling product development is ensuring that you can reproduce a client version of software at the office. With a mature source control system such as Team Foundation this is not too much of an issue with code - at worst you go back Read More

InfoPath 2007, SQL05 and ZQuery

As part of the latest project we're looking at an uber Sharepoint 2007 solution. One area we are looking at are storing completed forms data directly to SQL05, and what querying we can do directly. So, to try this out I created a table with 2 columns as below Read More