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WPF Converter: CaseConverter

Case Converter was made when I wanted the text to display in a WPF UI in upper case. Probably not the best class name, but anyway. To get the code and install read on.

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Setting Max memory usage in SQL Server

When running SharePoint locally it is a good idea to control the memory usage of SQL. To do this use the SQL query below.

sp_configure ‘max server memory’, 1024 RECONFIGURE GO

A good article that goes through some of the areas you need to look at in relationship to memory is located [...]

Getting the Central Admin URL for a Farm in SharePoint

I recently needed to get the Url of the CA for a SharePoint farm, after a bit of hunting in the API it was tracked down under the SPAdministrationWebApplication object.

C# SPAdministrationWebApplication caWebApp = Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local; var url = caWebApp.Sites[0].Url; PowerShell $caWebApp = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication]::Local [...]

New Toy! Eee PC T101MT

Photo by ichibodI finally got me one of those new fangled netbooks with touch! I have been looking for a small form tablet PC for a while. So far it has been working as expected, the IO seems a little slow but I am uninstall a heap o apps and will defrag [...]

Deleting Content Types in SharePoint

I found this peice of SQL on the web a while ago, I have no idea where it came from but it did come in handy the other day when a client needed to delete a content type but kept on getting the message it was in use.

When deleting content types you [...]

When is true not true?

When you look at true stored in the .Net framework.

While playing with Pex I found out a interesting fact that the bool is a byte in the MSIL. Which means that a bool could be euqal to anything on the byte range… Now this would require you to go out of your [...]

Toodledo DF - Update

Toodledo DF - Styled UI

Information can be found on: http://www.sytone.com/toodledo-distraction-free/

ToodleDo DF Update

Made a few fixes, I am also working on a simple API after dusting off some old work I had. This will allow interaction from the desktop and eventually a cached mode.

V 0.20.1005.2301 – Created link in options to edit css styles. – Fixed issue where focus mode would not take window [...]

Updated Toodledo Distration Free

You can get the update here: http://www.sytone.com/toodledo-distraction-free/

Changes:

Added Focus mode which will grey out the background so you just have your toodledo list. Updated the hover icons.

Enabling the query build for outlook views

 You can use an undocumented Registry key to display a Query Builder tab on the Filter dialog box associated with the View Summary dialog box. After you use the Query Builder to construct your query, you can then copy the Filter syntax displayed on the SQL page and paste it into your code. [...]