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Visual Studio SDK 4.0, Vista and symbolic links... - September 22, 2007

When you install Visual Studio SDK on Vista, it doesn't install by default on X:Program Files, but on X:Program Files (x86). When I tried to recompile the VSIP Software Factory from Codeplex, it had links to the Visual Studio SDK in c:program files. Instead of moving things around I created a symbolic directory link: mklink D "Visual Studio 2005 SDK" "c:Program Files (x86)Visual Studio 2005 SDK" Works like a breeze!
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2007/09/22/visual-studio-sdk-4-0-vista-and-symbolic-...

SharePoint: Custom Field Type for MultiLine text - September 18, 2007

When you add a custom field type that can hold more than the 255 characters you can't use a field of type SPFieldText because it has a max length of 255 characters. An obvious candidate is to use the field type SPFieldMultiLineText. No problems so far. But... in your custom version of the fldtypes.xml file (for example fldtypes_mytypes.xml) you have to define your parent type of the custom field. You would expect a parent type named MultiLineText, but no, that would be too obvious. It...
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2007/09/18/sharepoint-custom-field-type-for-multilin...