Stumbles and Travels


xbap and firefox
February 28, 2007, 5:29 am
Filed under: WPF

Since xbap doesn’t quite yet work in Firefox here’s a quick workaround, in case anyone is actually reading this thing, use the IE Tab extension for Firefox. You can also configure it to open xbap files by default, but if you really want that functionality just go on google and search “xbap in firefox” and your answer will be on the first page.



Custom Top Navigation Tip
February 27, 2007, 3:43 am
Filed under: MOSS

Earlier today I was attempting to customize the top navigation bar on a MOSS site. I was following direction which Todd Baginski provided in one of his blog posts. I wrote code identical in function to what he had describe under Taking the Top Navigation one step further, but I found after executing this code that the tab/link pointing to the current site was no long being highlighted. Instead the node I’d just created was being highlighted. After doing some investigating I recalled that when creating the node at the top level the following code was executed:

SPNavigationNode headerMenuItem;

headerMenuItem = new SPNavigationNode(“SharePoint Sites”, “”, false);

The second two arguments in the SPNavigationNode constructor are the cause of the problem. To begin by clicking on this link the user will simply reload the current page since it points directly back to the current page as the third argument indicates that the site is internal. My solution was to make the link external and include a full path back to the page; however if you wish to link to another site than that would obviously fix the problem as well.



So It Begins
February 26, 2007, 12:18 am
Filed under: Bookkeeping

I’m done school and started a new job and so I’m doing the only logical thing, starting a blog. If you’ve come here by chance you might be wondering what this is going to be all about. Well without going into too much detail my job requires me to have some knowledge of a product known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). So a bunch of the content will most likely revolve around my successes and challenges working with that package. I have also recently discovered Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF) and play around with it as a hobby so some of that may slip in here as well.

The only question is how long will the ride last and who is going to come along for the ride.