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Simple Pattern / Solution for Cross-thread operation not valid

16 July, 2010 (10:54) | .NET | By: Paul Liebrand

If you have ever done any threaded programming in .NET WinForms you have more than likely run into the following error message at some point:   InvalidOperationException was unhandled Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. This exception is normally displayed while running in [...]

SharePoint Development to BIN folder and extremely slow initial render times – Solution!

18 September, 2009 (09:06) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

My fellow co-workers and I have been dealing with an extremely slow build > render process when we are developing SharePoint solutions that are deployed to the BIN folder for over a year now. We are all using are own Windows Server 2003 image hosted on a VMware ESX Server farm with tons of other [...]

SharePoint URL Shortener – Feature Highlight

1 September, 2009 (07:25) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

There is a feature in my SharePoint URL Shortener solution that was not included in the video I posted on YouTube recently. I thought I would take the time to spotlight this feature because it may not be too obvious. The video highlights the ability to generate a short URL by using the drop down [...]

SharePoint URL Shortener Codeplex site has been published and is live!

29 August, 2009 (16:43) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

The SharePoint URL Shortener Codeplex site has been published and is now publically available (as promised from yesterdays post). As a reminder, the URL is http://spurlshortener.codeplex.com. If you have any problems, please post something on the Codeplex site and/or hit me up on Twitter (@PaulLiebrand). Thank you and please be gentle!

SharePoint Url Shortener – it’s finally here!

28 August, 2009 (23:32) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

After many iterations and delays I am pleased to announce that my SharePoint Url Shortener (initial version) is finally here! There is still some work to be done on this but I have decided to release it in its current state to start getting some feedback from the community. Here is a demonstration of the [...]

“TinyUrl” for SharePoint Feature Requests

3 March, 2009 (07:41) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

[Update – 9/2/2009] I have released the first public version of my SharePoint URL Shortener. Please read the following blog posts for more information: http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/28/sharepoint-url-shortener-its-finally-here/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/29/sharepoint-url-shortener-codeplex-site-has-been-published-and-is-live/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/09/01/sharepoint-url-shortener-feature-highlight/ I am soliciting feature requests on Twitter for the first version of the “TinyUrl” for SharePoint feature I’ll am developing. If you do not want to post them [...]

Article on SharePointMagazine.net – Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling – Part 2

6 November, 2008 (21:47) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

The second part of my article, Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling – Part 2, has been posted on www.SharePointMagazine.net. Hopefully you find this information useful. Please check it out of you have a free moment.

Useful SharePoint Utilities

3 October, 2008 (08:04) | SharePoint, Tools | By: Paul Liebrand

A recent update to one of the utilities I use on a regular basis prompted me to write this post which I have been wanting to do for a long time. Carsten Keutmann develops SharePoint utilities that I consider essential to my administration / development toolkit. The utilities I am talking about is SharePoint Manager [...]

Updated: "TinyUrl" like feature for SharePoint

8 September, 2008 (10:31) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

[Updated – 8/30/2009] For those of you who have not seen it yet, my SharePoint URL Shortener has been released.  Please see the following posts for more information: http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/28/sharepoint-url-shortener-its-finally-here/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/29/sharepoint-url-shortener-codeplex-site-has-been-published-and-is-live/ [Updated – 4/13/2009] As you have probably seen by now I was unable to get the TinyUrl like feature for SharePoint posted by my self [...]

Article on SharePointMagazine.net – Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling

18 August, 2008 (07:28) | SharePoint | By: Paul Liebrand

The first part of my article, Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling, has been published. Give it a read if you have a moment.