In this series of three posts, I will attempt to introduce working with the SharePoint Single Sign-On service from a more programming standpoint, and I will pepper in some of the administrative and configuration stuff because I haven't seen it covered very well at all, either on the web or in books. I will firstly [...]

I am curious as to whether anyone has actually found a decent, flexible SharePoint host that allows SharePoint developers the level of use that would be required in order to have a formidable public development environment. I personally have never seen one, and I know, I might be kinda obnoxious with my demands (as I [...]

There was a question in the SharePoint development newsgroups as to how someone might go about getting specific IIS settings when wanting to target an arbitrary SharePoint zone from which to query those settings. Fortunately, within the SharePoint object model, this is feasible using the GetIisSettingsWithFallBack method out of SPWebApplication. For example, this method is [...]

Ok, I am done with my rants, I probably could have brought up 15 other subjects, but I will quit now. I was kinda enjoying not doing something entirely technical on this blog and expressing my feelings about some things, but apparently several people took exception to my writing, particularly some recruiting companies I work [...]

I hate you! You know who you are. You are the guy that no matter what comes up, there is your stupid third party solution that although you think will work, it never does and I get blamed for you being inept. You mainly suggest your stupid little solution during project conversation because you know [...]