Dave Mc's Blog

  • Where Do My Taxes Go?

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    Visited my tax page on gov.uk today and saw how my taxes are being spent. I have to say that looking at it as objectively as possible, that’s not a bad way to spend the money … more …

    Where Do My Taxes Go?

  • Outcasts and The Kings Speech … blimey!

    I don’t think I’ve ever written a blog entry which has so many comments … must say something about my other stuff! What I find interesting is almost everybody went off discussing Outcasts, I got one accusation of being jaded and a Top Gear lover … eh?  Only a couple of people seemed to notice the… more …

  • European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011

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    European SharePoint Best PracticesConference 2011 agenda is out.  Check out the event.  If you’re a SharePoint developer it’s a great, great event organised by Steve Smith and his crew from Combined Knowledge.  Blatant self-promotion follows. This is my session here 🙂  Cheers Dave Mc more …

  • Outcasts – Boring! The King’s Speech – Immense!

    I like a good Sci-Fi series, really I do, so I was looking forward to Outcasts, but after two attempts I’ve given up.  Why? Because it’s boring. Boring, boring, boring. It shouldn’t have been boring, with those actors, with those special effects, with that story, but somehow the screen writers have managed to conspire… more …

  • User Profile Synchronization Service stuck at ‘Starting …’

    This week I had that nemesis of the User Profile Service, my User Profile Synchronisation Service got stuck at ‘Starting …’.  Now I’ve had this before and resolved it OK.  There are a couple of articles which are key in implementing the User Profile Service which I recommend.  Firstly there is the TechNet article… more …

  • Attach the ECB Menu to another field in SharePoint 2010

    One of the things that we’ve often wanted to do in SharePoint 2010 is to not have to have the Edit Control Block or ECB attached to the Title field, if you’re not sure what the ECB is, it’s that drop down menu on the standard List View page.  For instance, recently I wanted… more …

  • Getting SharePoint 2010 JavaScript Intellisense to Work in VS2010

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    I’ve been struggling with getting JavaScript Intellisense to work on and off over the last few months. I keep trying, finding it not working, so I go and do something else instead.  But I’m involved in a small project right now in which I was determined to get it working and finally, I have… more …

  • <native> error when using Custom Content Type in Custom List Template

    I found an odd issue using the Visual Studio 2010 Tools the other day.  Only just gotten around to writing about this, as it’s been a hectic few weeks.  Well it’s not odd, but it caused me a few head scratching moments until I realised what was going on.  Here’s the scenario: I create… more …

  • SharePoint XSLT and Databinding …

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    Had to put this here as it’s such a great article which shows the power of SharePoint – such an oddity at times – yet so much work has gone into the platform. http://www.bryancook.net/2009/09/understanding-sharepoints-ddwrtdatabind.html  Basically how you can use standard ASP.NET controls to bind to SharePoint Fields using a little trick involving XSLT …… more …

  • Custom Field fails to Show in Custom Content Type

    This has to be one of the weirdest things I’ve seen for ages – and there are a few weird things in SharePoint believe me. I was trying to add a Custom Field to a Custom Content Type -I’ve done this many time before.  But no matter what I did I couldn’t get the… more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …