Andrew Kennel
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PHL ParkingTrouble with Immediate Alerts job on my test box
September 23, 2008We're about to do a test run of the Emergency Preparedness sites I've built. Tomorrow, we'll be pretending there is a fire at one of our hospitals to test how well the email alerts work, and to see what problems people run into with the site. I'd been avoiding turning on email alerts because I…
Continue Reading →New version of SPWakeUp
September 22, 2008The new version adds the option to exclude sites. It took me a little longer than I expected to add this feature. My first approach was to build an ArrayList of exclude sites. Then, I just put and if/else check around every attempt to add a site to the wake-up list. This worked fine…
Continue Reading →Infopath forms and hidden buttons
September 16, 2008I’ve been building some forms for a site called Emergency Preparedness this week. One of the things I wanted to do with the form was get rid of the button bar at the top and bottom and replace them with a couple of simple buttons. I decided I wanted a button that said Submit when…
Continue Reading →SPWakeup fixes and a new feature
September 15, 2008I just released another new version of SPWakeup. Download a copy here: http://www.codeplex.com/spwakeupThis new version fixes a bunch of bugs that popped up in the last version. The biggest of which was causing it to crash on some servers when run against localhost. I’ve got 3 test servers and 1 production farm available to me….
Continue Reading →A new version of SPWakeup
September 13, 2008I’ve finally gotten around to updating this app. SPWakeup was the first .Net application I’ve ever written, and as such, was written just as I’d write a Perl script. Specifically, it ignored all the Sharepoint hooks that .Net gives you and just shells out the command line. I could have done this app with batch…
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