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Images working again

Images should be working again now, I broke them all when I added my domain name to WP. Please let me know if you see any broken images I may have missed.
Tah

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Email to Blog

Another nice reason to move to WordPress.com – I can email posts directly to my blog :)

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I have Resharper 4 installed into Visual Studio 2008.  On 64-bit the CTRL-F functionality crashes the application, which has driving me nuts.  My colleague Anand posted a solution to our company Intranet, so I stole his post for my blog for future reference. 
Thanks Anand ;)
“Visual Studio might crash when using the Find feature on [...]

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On a whim decision in middle of yesterday evening I decided to move my blog from Community Server 2.1 to WordPress.com.
Please update syndication URL to http://blog.robgarrett.com/feed/

Community Server and the team at Data Research Group, where my blog was hosted, have been great and I thank both DRG for their support and free hosting; and [...]

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Never use SPList.Items.Add because this approach gets all items in the list before adding a new SPListItem.  Use the following method instead, which does not preload the list items:

1: /// <summary>
2: /// More efficient way of adding an item [...]

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I’ve read several blog posts of late regarding best practices for developing SharePoint API based components.  Some developers are aware of issues surrounding disposal of SPSite and SPWeb objects and the use of SPList Item collections, and some are not.  The simple fact is the SharePoint API is not intuitive when it comes usage of [...]

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If you receiver the error "Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream" when accessing "Search Settings" in the SSP, the following steps will resolve the issue.  The issue is a result of incorrect self-serving-certificate.
1. Install the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit on the index server (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en) 2. Assign a [...]

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Test your GTD IQ at:
http://www.gtdiq.com/
Here's my result below [;)]

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My colleague, Carlos Fernandez, sent me this CSCRIPT command for recycling the an IIS application pool:
%windir%\system32\cscript.exe c:\windows\system32\iisapp.vbs /a "SharePoint – 80" /r
Tired of manually recycling the app pool each time you make a code change to your SharePoint web part?  No problem, add the following command to the post build events in Visual Studio.

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When developing 3rd party components for SharePoint you cannot avoid debugging.  Debugging usually involves attaching to a W3WP.EXE process – IIS host for a SharePoint application, from within Visual Studio. 
When presented with the attach to process dialog box, you should typically see two to three instances of W3WP.EXE, one for central administration site, maybe [...]

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