Medhat Elmasry

Blog Moved to http://medhatelmasry.blogspot.com/

Medhat Elmasry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:23:00 GMT

On Sunday September 20, 2009 I moved all my blog postings from this SharePoint 2007 server to blogger.com. The new URL is http://medhatelmasry.blogspot.com/. I have nothing against SharePoint 2007 as it served me quite well. I decided to move my blog because I started seriously falling behind on b ... (More)

How do I disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Server 2008?

Medhat Elmasry — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:03:00 GMT

Control Panel => User Accounts Click "Turn User Account Control on or off" Uncheck "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer" Click on "OK" button

How to unsubscribe (or remove) yourself from a SharePoint 2007 alert?

Medhat Elmasry — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:43:00 GMT

In SharePoint one can subscribe to any document libraray or list to be sent alerts when changes occur such us additions, deletions, and updates. This is done by choosing "Actions" => "Alert Me". If one wishes not to receive alerts anymore, it is not that apparent how to d ... (More)

Presentation to VanSPUG on Enhancing SharePoint with Silverlight 2.0

Medhat Elmasry — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:01:00 GMT

VanSPUG (Vancouver SharePoint User Group) is less than one year old. I can proudly say that I was a catalyst in the establishment of this young user group when I helped Peter McFarlane organize the launch event on September 17, 2008 at my BCIT workplace. Since then I have attended most of their ... (More)

Enabling Entity Framework (ADO.NET Entity Data Model) in a SharePoint 2007 web.config file

Medhat Elmasry — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:36:00 GMT

The Entity Framework is considered to be the modern day successor to "LINQ to SQL". If you wish to use this technology in a SharePoint 2007 web part you will need to tweak your web.config file to accomodate the new assemblies that are associated with the Entity Framework. Here are the ch ... (More)

How can you get the thumbnail for an image in your SharePoint picture library?

Medhat Elmasry — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:21:00 GMT

This is much easier than I had imagined. At first I thought I need to do some programming with the SharePoint Object Model APIs. It turned out to be nothing of the sort. Let us assume that you have a photograph located in your picture library named "pictures" at this URL: http:// ... (More)

How to use JavaScript to close an IE7 browser window without seeing the confirmation dialog?

Medhat Elmasry — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Close this window!

What is a quick way to get a .NET assembly's PublicKeyToken?

Medhat Elmasry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:31:00 GMT

The quick and dirty way is to go into the .NET command prompt and type the following: sn -T MyDotNetAssembly.dll The above utilizes the strong name utility that comes with the .NET Framework.

Getting around SharePoint 2007 not allowing database Integrated Security

Medhat Elmasry — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:48:00 GMT

The problem is becuase of a line in web.config in WSS root folder which is: