Had lots of fun earlier trying to figure out why my Windows Phone 7 application could not connect to my WCF endpoint. I had tested things out thoroughly with a standard winforms client application and everything worked great, but whenever I tried hitting the same endpoint from my WP7 emulator I'd get...

For those of you who have been developing solutions for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010, you may have noticed a slight packaging peculiarity when it comes to custom claims providers. In Visual Studio 2010 you can create a new feature and you can easily add a feature event receiver to it by just...

NOTE: The solution described below is only necessary if your web page and custom control are in the same project. I had this really not fun time this week blowing a couple of hours on something that should have been zero impact so I thought I'd share here. I wrote a custom ASP.NET server control and...

You may find yourself in a scenario where Active Directory isn't available across your entire solution scope. For example, if you have a solution that perhaps starts out in SharePoint, but then has to go fetch data or other resources from some repository that isn't secured by the same Active Directory...

I’ve been doing some work lately (that will be fodder for future posts) on more of the end-to-end integration story with SharePoint and other applications, and using claims authentication to flow identity across application boundaries. One of the specific points I’ve been working on lately...

I saw this funny little behavior today and thought I would share. You may be building applications for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 now and pretty happy with the solution packages (.wsp files) it creates for you. This is definitely one of the great new features in Visual Studio 2010. I was...

Hey folks, I've had this happen to me a couple of times and it's driven me a little crazy figuring out what was going on. You may use Visual Studio 2010 to create a new SharePoint 2010 application. You do something innocuous like using (SPSite theSite = new SPSite(myUrl)) and when the code executes,...