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Robust print view for SharePoint list views
Nearly any intranet or extranet and especially Internet site will require to have a print view for pages or sections of the site. If you take a standard approach of modifying CSS you might be spending days trying to get details of list views acceptable for printing. Here we take a look at a solution that will potentially save you lots of time.
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Managed .NET Connectivity
Database connections are the lifeblood of enterprise applications, administrating the secure and steady flow of information b… (read more)
Finish the Job
Apparently many people have been through the experience of just not getting the job quite all the way done.
I received a whole slew of emails that essentially said nearly the same thing. It seems that the pressures of the times have forced many of you to get a job to a specific point in time, get it functional, then move on to the next urgent project, leaving the initial project unfinished at best, marginally functional at worst.
Add to this that consultants also chimed in – here’s an example – "Another trend that I’m noticing is database professionals not “owning” their effort, whatever it may be. I’m not sure what this is stemming from, but with what I’ve seen, there are a lot of half-done things out there. It frustrates management to no end when a consultant comes in and points out this out. As a consultant, I’m more than happy to finish the job… but it comes at a cost to the credibility of database professionals everywhere. I’d encourage all of you out there to bring your game to the next level and finish off that project, put in some unpaid time, nights, weekends, whatever. The alternative is seeing my smiling face."
It’s a good point. I think we have a responsibility to really push to get things fully completed as needed. After all, when it later breaks, it won’t be a situation of "what do you mean the system won’t be back online for awhile? I don’t remember you telling me we didn’t get everything in place – you blew it…"
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ExportToWord
This stored procedure can be used to export the text string into Microsoft Word. You can pass the text string and the file … (read more)