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Posts related to software and Unity Assets development using the .Net and C# technology stack.

Displaying properties of a Documentum object

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When working with Documentum TypedObjects, you almost always need to retrieve their properties. Below is a method to print those properties to the Console. Notice, that this example uses the getAllRepeatingStrings() method – a useful method for displaying values to the user, but not very useful if you need to process and work with the … Read more

The Visitor design pattern

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I’ve always been a huge advocate for design patterns in the past, but up until recently, I didn’t get a chance to actually implement the Visitor design pattern. This changed last week, when one of my colleagues asked me to implement a small tool that handles one of our standard XML files. The tool was … Read more

User friendly file size

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Based on a utility method found in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility class, here’s a method to get a user-friendly text for a file size:

MIME Types and File Extensions

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Whenever working with content of files, it is often useful to have a way to find the MIME type based on a file extension, or the other way around – finding the file extension from a MIME type. Below are 2 useful methods for such requirements:

SqlCE doesn’t support TRUNCATE TABLE

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Not long ago, I modified a piece of code to use SqlCE as a data store. The older code was using OleDb to access an MS Access file. As part of the modifications, our team did a general overview of much of the data access code. We did many changes, more than I can even … Read more

Connecting to Documentum using .Net

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I’ve spoke in an earlier post about working with Documentum in .Net. In this post, I’ll show you how to connect to a DocBase, and get the list of cabinets. The following code will connect to a DocBase. It assumes that you have a Username, Password and DocBase variables declared that contain valid information: Now, … Read more

Retrieving extended permissions in Documentum with .Net

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Following version 5 of the Documentum Content Server, security entities can have extended permissions on items. Those extended permissions include: Execute Procedure, Change Location, Change State, Change Permission and Change Ownership. In order to retrieve those permissions by code, it is required to manually check for those permissions. Assuming that you have the object ID … Read more

Retrieving a list of available Documentum DocBases

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While adding support for EMC Documentum to the Tzunami Deployer, our SharePoint migration tool, I needed to allow the user to enter the name of a DocBase to connect to. I wanted an interface that is a bit more than just a TextBox where the user can enter the DocBase name. I ended up using … Read more

Updating GUI from different threads – Part 2

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As part of my work at Tzunami Inc., I’m working on migrating our product Deployer – a SharePoint migration tool – from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. One of the first things we’ve encountered was the managed debugging assistants (MDA). I’ll talk about the MDAs in a later entry, but for … Read more

Populating a TreeView with Outlook folders

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In this post I will demonstrate how to populate a TreeView with the different Outlook folders. We’ll be using the Outlook Object Model (OOM) to retrieve the folder and some basic information about them. The code itself is well documented, so I’ll not explain it.

Updating GUI from different threads

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Even the smallest thing, when thought upfront, can help you go a long way. Whenever you create an application that is more that two forms thrown together, and that does a little bit more than just saying “Hello world”, you’ll encounter a point where you’ll want to use threads. So if you’re going to reach … Read more