Monthly Archives: March 2009

SharePoint Designer 2007 to be free on April 1st 2009

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Rouslan Grabar

Hope this is not an April Fools’ Day joke. Microsoft tells its partners that SharePoint Designer will be available to everyone free of charge as a download starting on 1st of April 2009. They are giving it away for free … Continue reading →

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20 steps to get together Windows Authentication, Silverlight and WCF service

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Rouslan Grabar

For one of my projects I had to query WCF web service for some data and display it in the Silverlight powered client. The web service should return data relevant to the identity of the person, querying the service with … Continue reading →

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AppPools and Timer Services recycle utility for SharePoint developers

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Rouslan Grabar

Working on timer jobs article translation I discovered really nice and very useful system tray utility. The purpose of the utility is to recycle web application pools, a humdrum task every SharePoint developer has to perform as a part o … Continue reading →

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