Paul Reynolds Blog

Enhanced Batch Editing using Telerik Extensions for ASP .NET MVC Grid Control

Paul Reynolds — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:51:06 GMT

A brief post on enhancing the user experience (in my opinion) when using the Telerik MVC Grid in batch editing mode...

Custom WCF Services in SharePoint 2010–Part 2

Paul Reynolds — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:32:09 GMT

As promised at the end of Custom WCF Services in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1 we take a look at another approach to configuring our custom service. This approach also has another benefit that allows us to get around an issue that appears to exist with the Microsoft implementation of the Factories provided in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Services namespace...

Custom WCF Services in SharePoint 2010–Part 1

Paul Reynolds — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:04:48 GMT

It has always been the case with SharePoint that you sometimes need to develop custom ‘services’ to get a particular job done, and this is no exception with 2010. The provided services have continued to expand/improve over the years when compared back to earlier versions of SharePoint, but they are obviously general and not going to perform every function we might require. Enter custom WCF Services...

Creating a Web Application Installer with WiX 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010–Part 5

Paul Reynolds — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:30:08 GMT

Continuing from Part 4, we look at the creation of a custom action assembly to populate our custom dialog, and apply the selected values...

Creating a Web Application Installer with WiX 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010–Part 4

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:52:17 GMT

Continuing from Part 3, we look at providing a user interface to get information from the user and apply that to our structure and definitions...

Creating a Web Application Installer with WiX 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010–Part 3

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:37:09 GMT

Continuing on from Part 2, we get into the bulk of the functionality, defining the structure and dealing with IIS...

Creating a Web Application Installer with WiX 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010–Part 2

Paul Reynolds — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:17:37 GMT

Continuing on from Part 1, we take a look at applying some general settings, and checking of prerequisites...

Creating a Web Application Installer with WIX 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010–Part 1

Paul Reynolds — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:53:02 GMT

So you’ve just finished creating a lovely shiny new web application. As you’re putting on your jacket, you think ‘Ah! I should quickly create an MSI installer…will only take a few minutes’…you sit back down, and remember the latest company directive that stated that Visual Studio Setup projects should not be used anymore…

Using WIX 3.5 with Visual Studio 2010

Paul Reynolds — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:48:15 GMT

Given the imminent demise of Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects, I’ve started to take a look at using Windows Installer XML (WIX) 3.5 as our installer of choice. In this initial post, I’d just like to ensure others are not ‘bitten’ by an issue that took up way too much of my time relatively early on during my exploration...

EF4 part 9: Tweaks to deal with Oracle and WCF DS

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:50:26 GMT

We have recently just finished the final stages of testing our new product version that makes use of .NET 4, Entity Framework 4 (EF4), WCF Data Services (WCF DS), Task Parallel Library, etc. When we switched from testing the MS SQL version to the Oracle version, a few new issues arose that I’ll note in this post...