Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Why does it seem this is such a MCMS 2002 topic? It’s come up with SharePoint, but not nearly as much as it does with MCMS? If you’ve worked with MCMS long enough, you’ll know there are a few things …
I’m sure we’ll hear more about this as the PDC approaches. Microsoft is melding the infrastructure underlying SharePoint Portal Server and Content Management Server (CMS) for the Office 12 wave …
I’ve had two TiVo Series 2 units for over two years now. Both are networked and are full of content, but my patience has been paper thin with TiVo. I’m a very demanding customer. You can’t just build …
Unlock the power of regex for efficient text processing. Andrew Connell reveals how to leverage regular expressions for dynamic MCMS site navigation.
What are regular expressions? Regular expressions (regex) is one of the few things that even some of the more experienced developers haven’t wrapped their brain around. As Roy Osherove puts it: …
A few days ago, Darrell turned me onto the first of a three part series involving a conversation with Erich Gamma of GoF and Design Patters fame. The second part of the series is up and it’s a great …
The following steps helps me resolve a nasty VS.NET debugging issue I was having. When you launch the VS .NET debugger automatically by pressing the PLAY button or F5, debugging works just fine. …
Last week I had a nasty issue: I couldn’t get the debugger to attach to a process while working on a MCMS 2002 project. As MCMS developers know, you can’t just hit F5 to fire off the debugger, you …
I don’t know why it seems this has hit the blogsphere more frequently lately, but yet again, someone else has written an article that involves working directly with the MCMS 2002 database. …
Stefan announced today that there is another book in the works for MCMS 2002. The book is a combined effort with Stefan Goßner (Microsoft), Joel Ward (MVP MCMS), Mei Ying Lim (MVP MCMS), Angus Logan …
Proud to share I was awarded the Microsoft MVP status for MCMS. I would like to thank my friends for their help throughout the process.
I recently upgraded one of my Virtual PC’s from MCMS2002 SP1 to SP1a. After some flakyness, and a little input from Stefan Goßner, I realized that the SP1a upgrade added two new ISAPI filters, but …
Gregory S. MacBeth posted a list of books and items you need to be an “effective SharePoint developer”. This list is long enough to scare some people off! SharePoint Developer’s Roadmap
Stefan Goßner posted a good article about the scalability issues around CmsApplicationContext. MCMS 2002 context objects are not really designed for long running scenarios. Usually long running …
The SharePoint (WSS & SPS) OOB document library is very simple and straightforward. But, what if you need more functionality like a full blown document repository complete with workflow, auditing …
[Via MSDN] MCMS uses an ISAPI filter to trap requests and build the pages before handing them off to IIS and .NET for processing. This article on MSDN details how it works. Inside MCMS: How Content …
Barry shares an article on programming role-based security in web parts and mentions Jay Nathan’s article on SharePoint Security and .NET Impersonation
Stefan Gossner posted a nice utility that displays the items using a specific resource: MCMS 2002 does not provide a mechanism to identify if a resource gallery item is currently being used by a …
By some of the best and brightest: Mei, Joel, Stefan. Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server is an end-to-end guide to creating a Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) …
What’s next for Microsoft Content Management Server? In this article, I’ll share my thoughts and Microsoft’s plans to merge it with SharePoint.
Maurice’s SharePoint Thoughts post discusses the future of web part development and using SmartPart to achieve it. Check it out
The article suggests using CustomPropertyDbEx, Migration Console, and Web Manager to simplify MCMS 2002 custom property upgrades
MCMS 2002 is a CMS platform that stores site assets, with the ability to add custom metadata properties through Site Manager or PAPI for improved management.
CustomPropertyDbEx enhances content management by migrating custom properties of channels, templates, and postings to a database, retaining CMS linkage.
Project involves many nested channels and creating them on the fly. Programmatically working with custom properties in CMS channels is challenging