Tower Defense prototype update – now with sound!
I've uploaded another video of my Tower Defense prototype. I've managed to fix my audio drivers so it includes sound effects and music this time. Not a whole lot of visible changes since last time, since a lot of the stuff I've been working on has been underlying stuff.
How to remove the “I Like It” and “Tags & Notes” buttons from the ribbon in SharePoint 2010
I've seen this question pop up on the forums from time to time, and it an understandable business requirement. Not every company want these buttons on their internal (or external) websites. Now my first thought to get rid of these was to use the HideCustomAction functionality, but after digging around for a big I realized there's a far easier way to turn it off.
Adding a custom button to the ribbon using a feature in SharePoint 2010
I know a lot of people don't like the Ribbon, but I personally love it. It's being put into more and more of Microsoft (and third party!) applications and SharePoint 2010 is no exception. But how do you go about and customize it? I've been looking at doing so for the last few days, and I'm glad to say that so far it's not too tricky.
Second look at Tower Defense prototype built with XNA
Here's a second look at the Tower Defense game that I've been working on. It's still quite early in the development stage, but there's been some significant additions since the last video. Most notably, although it's not obvious in the video, is the addition of sound effects. Unfortunately I was unable to get CamStudio to record with audio, so you can't actually hear it. Bummer.
Changing the properties of an existing Web Part using PowerShell
Sometimes you need to change the properties of a Web Part without browsing to the page itself and set it. There could be numerous reasons as to why you would want or need to do this. A while back I created a really simple redirect web part for one of my clients. It had two custom properties, EnableRedirect and Url. If EnableRedirect was true, it would redirect the user to the specified Url. Obviously, if you want to change either of these properties while the EnableRedirect is true, that's going to be a problem.
Fast forward and the redirect web parts need to be changed and/or disabled. Obviously we can't navigate to the page and just change it, because the page will redirect you. But it can be done relatively easy using PowerShell.
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