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FC.ImageSearch 3.0 Released

Jennifer Neumann — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:32:00 GMT

First the good news: the product is finally out and I am really happy about the results we've come up with. The new version of the FC.ImageSearch product is a great tool because it simplifies setting up an Image Search in SharePoint so that even mere mortals (non-programmers) can manage and con ... (More)

Setting the Xsl property of the CoreResultsWebPart

Jennifer Neumann — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:30:00 GMT

Modifying the Xsl property of the CoreResultsWebPart using the Web Part editor is straight-forward. But doing the same thing programmatically is a nuisance. In many situations you end up with an InvalidOperation exception. The reason for this trouble is the getter of the XslHash property: ... (More)

Debugging SharePoint Custom Admin Pages

Jennifer Neumann — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:37:00 GMT

I think everyone knows about the tag in the web.config to enable error details to be displayed by the Runtime Error page, which you usually get when your aspx markup and related code-behind has a problem. Normally this is set in the Virtual directory of the Web application a ... (More)

FC.ImageSearch 1.1 released for SharePoint 2007 / WSS3

Jennifer Neumann — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:11:00 GMT

We've just released version 1.1 of our FC.ImageSearch product. While this is officially a maintenance release I personally still consider it a "major" release, as we've put a major effort into supporting all kinds of ways people end up configuring their search center. E.g. the Sea ... (More)

FC.MetadataExtractor 3.2 released for SharePoint 2010

Jennifer Neumann — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:39:00 GMT

On the heels of the 2.3 release (for SharePoint 2007), comes the announcement for the 3.2 release for SharePoint 2010.All the goodies introduced in the 2.3 release have also found their way into the 3.2 release.Of course we didn't stop there, and implemented several new features that will make it ev ... (More)

FC.MetadataExtractor 2.3 released

Jennifer Neumann — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:47:00 GMT

I've been looking forward to announcing this major release, as it holds a good number of new features and usability improvements. The highlights for me are: - Extended file format support - Much improved ease of use around configuring and applying metadata mappings - Fixing the page redirec ... (More)

FC.MetadataExtractor 2.2 and 3.1 released

Jennifer Neumann — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:26:00 GMT

We've just put out a couple of maintenance releases for our FC.MetadataExtractor products. The 2.2 release is for the SharePoint 2007 platform and the3.1 release is for the SharePoint 2010 platform. There are subtle but valuable improvements around the handling of GPS metadata. First, we now s ... (More)

Accessing Location metadata using WIC - Windows Imaging Components

Jennifer Neumann — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:36:00 GMT

A customer just asked me how to retrieve the "City" metadata using the WIC. It's actually straight forward to pull that out of the IPTC information in most cases, as that is where Photoshop puts it when using the IPTC tab's "Sub-Location section, or the Origin tab. app13/irb/8bimi ... (More)

Change the Home page in SharePoint

Jennifer Neumann — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:11:00 GMT

Happy New Year to Everyone! Wow, it's been a while that I had the time to write a blog post. I was simply swamped over the last two months. Soo much has happened! Now I look forward to a good new year and I wish everyone exactly the same! Back to business! Unbelievable, but after year ... (More)

SharePoint 2010 Translation "Gem"

Jennifer Neumann — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:45:00 GMT

We'll be releasing the FC.ImageSearch for SharePoint 2010 product also in German. While testing we recognized this very innovative translation of a list column name: English: "CheckedOutUserId" German: "ID des Benutzers, der das Element ausgecheckt hat" Perfect down t ... (More)