Wesley Bakker

Certifications

webbes — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:59:00 GMT

In one way or another I keep stumbling on threads / discussion on certifications. Whether or not certifications are useful, or whether a certification means you’re skilled. Here’s my ten cents on the subject....(read more)

Windows 7 RTM available on Technet.

webbes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:46:00 GMT

This year, all MCT's got a very nice present in the form of a Technet subscription. And today I'm especially happy with it because we can download Windows 7 RTM....(read more)

How to make a Linq to Sql query twice as fast…

webbes — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:54:00 GMT

An important action with every LinqToSql query is to transform your lambda’s into T-SQL. In simple queries this can take half of the time. By compiling the query you can cache the result of this transformation which saves a lot of processing time on each succeeding query....(read more)

Deadly Poison of Lazy Loading and not following Design Guidelines

webbes — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:55:00 GMT

Sometimes I perform a code review and at first glance everything looks fine, but - while I’m digging my way in - I slowly start to encounter some ‘hidden features’. This post is all about the dangers of lazy loading and not following some of the design guidelines....(read more)

SharePoint 2007 fully certified

webbes — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:58:00 GMT

Finally... I was certified in a lot of things but SharePoint. Today however I've finished my last SharePoint exam with succes. I've passed all WSS en Moss exams. Up to the next ones!(Maybe the next round of MCM?) Cheers, Wes...(read more)

What makes a good manager?

webbes — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:30:00 GMT

In my life time I’ve only met three good managers and they share some common characteristics which made them so good at what they are doing. In this post I’ll try to determine what it is that makes them that good....(read more)

DownloadAsZip SharePoint Feature RTW

webbes — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:20:00 GMT

I've finally managed to release the SharePoint DownloadAsZip feature which enables you to download files and folders from SharePoint document libraries as a zip. In this post I'll finish up how this feature is created. You can also download a complete WSP file which contains, amongst a lot of other features, this DownloadAsZip feature. ...(read more)

BizTalk + SharePoint: 1+1=3

webbes — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:15:00 GMT

Today my colleague Gijs in ‘t Veld and I published our white paper on BizTalk Server and SharePoint integration, describing best practices for providing a “face” to BizTalk Server. We cover a lot of integration features of SharePoint so even if you are not interested in BizTalk at all, you might want to have a look at this whitepaper. It contains complete walkthroughs, tips and explanations, on: Excel Services, Data Connection Libraries, integrating Excel and Analysis Services 2008, InfoPath Forms Services, integrating SharePoint task lists with Microsoft Outlook, workflow with SharePoint Designer, designing large lists, designing large SharePoint sites, designing SharePoint authorization, and more!...(read more)

DownloadAsZip SharePoint Feature Part II

webbes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This is part 2 in the series where we create a feature that enables the download of multiple SharePoint list items as a zip. This post demonstrates how to stream a zip file containing sharepoint files and folders to the browser....(read more)

Solving the “Data Refresh Failed” error message.

webbes — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:45:00 GMT

This post is both a story and a complete walkthrough on how to configure Excel Services in SharePoint to connect to Analysis Services 2008....(read more)

Select Multiple List Items in SharePoint Feature

webbes — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:30:00 GMT

In this post I’m going to show you how to create a feature that enables the selection of multiple list items. This can come in handy for features like "Download items as Zip" or "Delete multiple items"....(read more)

Finalizing the Virtual Earth web part

webbes — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:04:00 GMT

The complete source code and a solution package are attached to this final post in the Virtual Earth Web Part series....(read more)

Test your site in all mainstream browsers without installing

webbes — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:40:32 GMT

Sometimes I’m amazed and today is such a rare moment. This should be embedded in Visual Studio 2010 by default! Have a look over here and get amazed. Trust me it works!...(read more)

Regular Expression Validated Custom SPField

webbes — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:31:00 GMT

This post demonstrates how to create a custom SPField the easy way. It contains the complete source for both a regular expression validated SPField and a validated email address SPField....(read more)

IListConsumer

webbes — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:00:00 GMT

This is part three in a series of post on how to create a Virtual Earth Web Part. In this post I’ll show you how to connect your web parts to SharePoint list view web parts. It’s not that simple but we’ll manage....(read more)