Every beginning has an ending, everything is impermanent, and that’s what is happening to me and my friend Southworks. It was not a sudden decision; the seed of change was sown some time ago. All the objectives and perspectives I envisioned in the past have now been fulfilled. The conditions have met, no strains attached,... read more
Last week I’ve read an excellent set of articles that were published in the Architecture Journal #16 (Identity and Access), and deeply caught my attention the way in which the authors expose in a really simple way most of the concepts you need to have in handy to face this new era of security. In... read more
In this post you will learn how to deploy a report from a SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio Report Server Project into a SharePoint 2007 site (Integrated with Reporting Services). Once the report is deployed, you will be able to consume it directly from a page of your SP site using a built-in... read more
This walkthrough assumes that you have previously installed MOSS 2007 (with Reporting Services Integration feature on) + SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008. If you are using another Windows version, there might be steps that will slightly differ while configuring them, so try to adjust them to your environment. Install the Microsoft SQL Server... read more
For the past five weeks I’ve been working on a project for DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelist) to deliver a set of quality Hands on Labs consisting on the new technologies for .NET 3.5 Extensions; these includes: ASP.NET MVC Creating ASP.NET MVC Applications Developing ASP.NET MVC applications with TDD Using ASP.NET MVC along with an... read more
In this opportunity I will show you how to use the VSTO Ribbon dynamicMenu control to programmatically add controls at runtime using C#. The dynamicMenu is a Ribbon control that has a similar behavior to the menu control, with the difference that the former allows to add controls like buttons, menus, toggleButtons at runtime. For... read more
Southworks’ family is getting bigger and bigger as days pass, and makes me wonder if there is a limit. In this opportunity I would like to introduce our new CEO, Hernan Rey-Willis, who decided to join us in the path to greatness. I’m sure he will bring Southworks tons of energy and positive vibrations! =)... read more
Hi, in this opportunity you will see how to attach a given template into a Word 2007 document programatically (C#), and subsequently update the styles that were modified. Sample Solution If you like to see the code working, I’m attaching in this post a really simple sample solution that you can download and use it... read more
Introduction In order to make the sample more exciting, you will convert a text selection into a plain text content control. For this, you will use several Interop interfaces such as Selection and Range, but don’t panic because their use is really simple and intuitive. For more information, see Selection Interface and Range Interface. Additionally,... read more
Hi to all! In this post I will show you how to programatically (C#) export the images that are embedded in Word 2007. As you may know, all the images that are inserted into Word are also embedded as document parts. All embedded parts in a Word 2007 document are in their native, default Word... read more