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Mostafa Elzohgbi presenting at Microsoft’s 2010 MVP Summit
MetroStar Systems is pleased and proud to announce that our team member, Mostafa Elzohgbi, will be presenting at Microsoft’s exclusive 2010 MVP Global Summit which takes place February 16-19, 2010 at...
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Mostafa Extends His Microsoft MVP Streak to Five Years in a Row
Another year has passed here at MetroStar Systems and yet another Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Visual C# award has been bestowed upon our own Mostafa Elzoghbi. In what has seemingly...
View ArticleInjecting and Running Javascript in a Windows.Forms.WebBrowser control
Have you ever needed to inject some JavaScript into a web-page contained in a WebBrowser control and then run said code? If you have then you’re in luck; here is some sample code which accomplishes...
View ArticleReaderWriterLock vs. ReaderWriterLockSlim Performance
Here is handy comparison of the performance ReaderWriterLock and ReaderWriterLockSlim: ReaderWriterLock ReadLock -> Release Lock = 0.00014 ms WriteLock -> ReleaseLock = 0.00012 ms ReadLock ->...
View ArticleConnection errors with application pages
Periodically, I have overzealous users who refresh the page even when the load time is < 1 second. Within my application pages, I’d receive errors similar to “internal connection fatal error”. The...
View ArticleC# Generator best practices
A while back C# introduced generators (through the use of yield return) which is a very handy/powerful construct if used properly. However if your not careful there are a few gotchas which novice...
View ArticleOpen XML in the Sandbox
Sometime back I was given the task of taking information in an email and automating it into a specifically formatted word document (kind of a strange request I know). With me being a complete OpenXML...
View ArticleStoring Connection String Information in the Secure Store Service
As a SharePoint developer, i’ve been tasked a few times with pulling data from an external database into SharePoint. More often than not, that data is secured SQL data and needs to be accessed using a...
View ArticleStoring Credentials in a SharePoint Property Bag
I recently posted about storing credentials in the Secure Store Service, and based on a few comments, I figured I should also post about storing credentials in the property bag. For this post I’m just...
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Creating a Custom SharePoint Calendar Rollup
A few months ago I had a requirement to rollup multiple SharePoint 2010 Calendars into one centralized calendar. I initially thought, “overlays make that a piece of cake!” Little did I know, I was...
View ArticleTaking SPQuery To The Max
Recently I was working on a project which utilizes SharePoint to store backend data for a ticketing system. The layout of the data is a bit relational, much like SQL tables. In fact, some would say...
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