Scenario Recently a client had a requirement to upload documents to their SharePoint site. They wanted the ability to drop numerous files in a FTP folder and have them uploaded to SharePoint automatically. Solution We decided to solve this using a Custom SSIS Task that uploads files to the required Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) Document Library. We therefore used the Integration Services Project under the Business Intelligence Project types within Microsoft Visual Studio ... [Read more]

Two of Dot Net Solutions’ very own have recently been busy writing a book on Azure, which has just been published. Dan Scarfe and Marcus Tillett teamed up with Stephen Parker to write one of a new series of “Thinking of” books. The table of contents gives a brief flavour of the book, which is written in a very condensed style. Giving as much information, as quickly as possible. 1 Major players in IT are spending billions on the Cloud – why? 2 Could I have a platform in the sky? Sure th ... [Read more]

A new application we are currently building was occasionally throwing an UnauthorizedAccessException exception. Using the ASP.NET health monitoring we became aware of this very quickly. Having used the health monitoring for several past projects, we generally find it a very effective way to get information about problems, such as the exception message and stack trace. Unfortunately, the health monitoring event raised by the UnauthorizedAccessException exception did not contain any informatio ... [Read more]