August 2009 - BLACKTOP: Writings From the Road

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Installing SilverLight 3 Visual Studio Tools Offline

I recently needed to install the SilverLight 3 Visual Studio Tools in a VPC that was not connected to the internet. Unfortunately, the installer wants to connect to the internet to download the SilverLight SDK and won't complete without a connection....

Published Fri, Aug 28 2009 2:59 PM by DavidL
TIP: Accessing Resources as the Web Application Pool Account Instead of the Current User

Generally custom web applications that interact with K2 impersonate the current user for security by setting this attribute in the web.config file: <identity impersonate="true"/> But sometimes you want to perform some code in the security context...

Published Fri, Aug 21 2009 9:44 AM by DavidL
(Almost) Any Port in a Storm

I was working with a customer recently who was having authentication problems on their development environment. All K2 Components and MOSS were installed on the same server. However, whenever they went to K2 Workspace or opened an InfoPath form that used...

Published Mon, Aug 17 2009 1:12 PM by DavidL
Where did that activity data field go?

Every once in a while when I'm writing a server code event I have trouble remembering whether a particular activity data field is a destination instance field or an activity field and which API syntax is used to access it. Things like that happen when...

Published Wed, Aug 5 2009 1:47 PM by DavidL