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The classification widgets in Sitefinity allows you to display the list of taxonomy names (such as categories or tags) used by content items in Sitefinity. You can specify a specific content type (even Dynamic Modules with this workaround) and to allow your visitors to filter the content items.

Custom Blogs Taxonomy Control

However, if you have multiple blogs on your website and use the taxonomy widget, it will include tags and categories used by ANY blog post from ANY of the blogs. There is currently no way to specify a parent blog.

Fortunately, this can be easily fixed ...

Now that I've got the backstory on this project out of the way, I can finally officially introduce WunderLook: an Outlook Add-in for Wunderlist.

This is my first attempt at writing both an Outlook Add-in as well as developing with Wunderlist. They don't have an official API that I could find, but I did discover the .NET Wunderlist API by lerainieur on SourceForge which is a major component of this project. Many thanks to the developer for making this available.

Status: Pre-pre-pre-alpha

The Add-in itself is not very useable. You cannot yet create lists, or tasks. You can only ...

As I mentioned last time, I was inspired by Wunderlist to expand my developer skillset by learning how to create an Add-in for Outlook that would let me display and manage tasks. Although the functionality of the add-in is important, it was really more of an excuse to see if I could do it.

However, I had a difficult time just finding relevant and useful information on just how the heck you do this. I searched for hours on MSDN, as well as general searching on the internet for variations of "how to create an outlook add-in" that yielded pretty ...

If you're like me you use Outlook all day, every day to manage not only email, but tasks, appointments, contacts and more. And now that I have a Windows Phone 7, I am more in sync than ever. Having come from years of the travesty days of Windows Mobile, I can honestly say it's finally a fantastic time to be fully on the Microsoft stack!

My Kingdom for a Task Manager

That being said, one thing that continues to be severely (and confusingly) lacking is the support for synchronizing tasks from Outlook to Windows Phone. There is no official or ...

One of my biggest annoyances about SQL Server is the inability to load a database from a later version into a previous one. Database files and backups don't have any indicators of their version (unless you are OCD enough to enforce naming conventions) so whenever I get a backup file from a client (or from my archive) it's a crapshoot which server it belongs to.

Worst of all, restoring it to a LATER version IS supported, so if I have an SQL Server 2005 backup and restore it to my local SQL Server 2008, it works fine. Then when I ...