Dave Mc's Blog

  • SharePoint 2007, PRISM and Silverlight 3.0

    Not got time just now, but I plan to release an article soon on writing a composite Silverlight 3 application in PRISM then deployed onto Sharepoint with WCF Services providing the data services, hopefully it will be useful to people to show how the whole thing can hang together.  It will be based on… more …

  • Virtual Box Networking for SharePoint on Vista

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    I was introduced to VirtualBox last year by my good friend Andy Maggs. Why use VirtualBox as opposed to Virtual PC/Virtual Server? Well for one thing you can easily take snapshots which is nice, you can Virtualise USB devices, oh and the screen display is easier, oh and you can activate RDP when you… more …

  • A Great SharePoint Book

      Building the SharePoint User Experience is a book I’m reading.  I highly recommend it, it covers all the stuff you need to know about customizing the SharePoint UI.  Now although I’m nominally a SharePoint MVP and therefore supposedly a SharePoint ‘guru’ (yeah right!), the product itself is so vast, it’s virtually impossible to know… more …

  • Why Overuse of Reflection can be a mistake …

      I was working on a bug today on a customised List Viewer which I’d inherited.  The guy who wrote it was plainly a very clever chap and knew his SharePoint internals unfortunately even against his own advice on his blog (which I won’t include here), he added in some key functionality which depended… more …

  • Installing/Upgrading Windows 7 – Part 2

    OK, so it’s a sad tale … I found I couldn’t upgrade to Windows 7.  I removed the Daemon Tools installation I had which was complained about in the installation of Windows 7 as it gave rise to a SCSI/RAID Controller warning.  Uninstalled Intel Pro/Wireless it got all the way through then blue-screened and… more …

  • Installing/Upgrading Windows 7 – Part 1

      So yesterday was the day that Windows 7 was released via MSDN Subscriptions download, so I thought I’d blog my upgrade experience from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate.  I really wanted to upgrade as I’d just got my laptop as I wanted it, but I also wanted to have Windows 7, having… more …

  • There is Life in the Old Dog Yet … (4th and Final Part)

    So to the main event, if you’ve been following my series on the Challenger Event this year, you’ll know by now that Team Tutti Frutti started to gel together really well in the third weekend training in the Peak District.  So now it was to the real event which took place over three and… more …

  • Talking about My Sessions

     Well SQLBITS is going West and I’ve submitted a session for it on Non-Relational Data Manipulation – no Silverlight for those of you suffering from Silverlight overload  … My Sessions more …

  • There is life in the old dog yet … (My Microsoft UK Challenger Story) – Part 3 of 4

    In the last two parts of my Microsoft UK Challenger Story I’ve described the first two training weekends.  Now we started coming into the real stuff.  First off though we had news that due to family commitments Ray Booyson, decided that he would pull out to let somebody else have a chance and that… 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 …