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Sunday Funny: Keeping Your Son On His Toes

One of the many joys I take in being the parent of a ten year old boy is finding new ways to make him laugh or think a little differently about questions and things in the world. I’ve used these techniques over the years: === Misconstrue his qu…

Guest Blogging?

It seems fairly common in the political blogging world for a given blog to host a "guest blogger". When I’m in political blog land I must be wearing a different pair of eye glasses because it never occurred to me that "guest bloggin…

This is Why I don’t Like Using Tools Day Zero

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver.development/browse_thread/thread/41e8cbe4f15e8b4c/76506ea401403e35?#76506ea401403e35 If the tool is doing stuff you don’t understand and then it fails in step n of an unknown…

Solution to BDC ADF Import Failure: “The following error occurred:”

I was once again crafting BDC ADF files by hand (so that I can build up my "get off my lawn!" cred) and hit this lovely error: "Application definition import failed. The following error occurred:" As you can see, there’s an e…

BDC Seems a Viable Replacement For Lookups

UPDATE: This MSDN posting has some interesting observations from JXJ based on his, mainly negative, experiences going down this path: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2623565&SiteID=1 We have a business scenario where we need …

Solution to BDC Import Error: “Could not load Type described by TypeDescriptor’s TypeName …”

I’ve been working with BDC today, coding ADF files by hand and generating myself some errors. One such error: Application definition import failed. The following error occurred: Could not load Type described by TypeDescriptor’s TypeName….

Solution to Problem: “FileNotFoundException” With My Feature Receiver.

I was working on a feature last week that would add some event receivers to a specific list instance. (I blogged a bit about that list receiver here). Using the command line, I could install the feature with no error (but see below for the hidden err…

Sunday Funny: Top 10 Ways To Annoy Your Wife

Buy broccoli when you know there is already more than enough in the fridge. Go for a run. Cool off. Take off clean pillow case and replace with T-shirt. Cover with clean pillow case. When driving, ask if we should go the wrong way down a one-way…

Event ID 1023: “Windows cannot load extensible counter DLL MSSCNTRS”

UPDATE (04/08/08): I seem to have solved this problem. From the command line, I ran "c:\windows\system32\lodctr /R" as per an entry talking about InstallShield problems and that appears to have solved it for me. I have noticed that lately, m…

Quick & Easy: Rename Uploaded File Using SharePoint Object Model Via an Event Receiver

UPDATE: This works but there are significant limitations which are described in the comments. This may still be useful in some cirumstances. UPDATE 2: In my current project, users always upload documents. As a result, I don’t run into a …