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Jan 13

What You Need To Know About AllowUnsafeUpdates

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Very good insight on using "AllowUnsafeUpdates" in SharePoint object model.http://hristopavlov.w... ......

Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 10:18 AM MOSS , MOSS Object Model , Sharepoint 2010

Oct 12

Alternative for Sharepoint 2010 Discussion Boards

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If you have tried Sharepoint discussion boards, you already know that you cannot offer a PROPER forum experience with it. It's still very primitive and it will take considerable time and effort you to extend and customize.Fortunately I found that there are some third party solutions, and Lightning Storm Forum is a very nice alternative. I'ts not free ......

Posted On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:49 AM Sharepoint 2010

Sep 11

Use string values in Enum (c#)

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Very useful article by Wayne Hartman.

http://blog.waynehartman.com/articles/84.aspx

Posted On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:30 AM .net , .net 3.0

Aug 11

Enable Content Approval on a Custom SharePoint list using the list definition

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Yesterday I realized that non of my custom lists enforce content approval by default. That really worried me as 90% of the data we display in the web site which I'm working on are coming from custom lists. Enabling this manually is a piece of cake but I wanted to include this in the list definition. After some research and testing I found out that there ......

Posted On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:57 AM MOSS

Jun 11

GetUserListSchema(): Failed to get the list schema XML for feature

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These days I'm working on a CMS solution and I had all my list definitions and list instances in one feature, so everything was working fine. But its not ideal as each time I change the list definitions I have to de-activate and re-activate the whole feature. And each time I do that the default data I have defined in list definitions are duplicated. ......

Posted On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:15 PM .net , MOSS

Jun 10

Kill w3wp.exe and all it's child process

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Going over all the w3wp processes in task manager is frustrating if you wanna do this frequently :). So here it is.

taskkill /F /IM w3wp.exe /T

Works in the command line and PowerShell as well.

Posted On Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:53 AM .net , misc

Aug 09

Add Permission Level to a Sharepoint user group collection

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/// <summary> /// Add Permission Level to a Sharepoint user group collection /// </summary> /// <param name="spWeb">The sp web.</param> /// <param name="permissionName">Name of the permission.</param> /// <param name="groupCollection">The group collection.</param> public static void AddPermissionsToGroupCollec... ......

Posted On Monday, August 17, 2009 11:06 PM .net , .net 3.0 , MOSS , MOSS Object Model

Aug 09

Get value collection of a SharePoint Choice Field

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public static List<string> GetChoiceFieldValues(string listName,string fieldName, string siteCollection, string webSite) { List<string> fieldList; SPSite spSite = null; SPWeb spWeb = null; try { if (siteCollection != null) spSite = new SPSite(siteCollection); else spSite = SPContext.Current.Site; if (webSite != null) spWeb = spSite.OpenWeb(webSite); ......

Posted On Saturday, August 1, 2009 4:01 AM .net , .net 3.0 , MOSS , MOSS Object Model

Jun 09

Renaming a Report Server Computer and next....

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You know what happens when we change the name of a SharePoint server right? It simply won’t work again unless you run the SharePoint Server configuration wizard. So what would happen if you do the same for the SSRS (SQL server reporting services) server? Some say you might not be able to connect to the reporting services again. I changed my reporting ......

Posted On Monday, June 29, 2009 12:29 PM

Jan 09

Errors "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installation has failed. SQL 2008 Setup requires .NET 3.5 to be installed." and "This server version is not supported. Only servers up to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are supported."

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Today I had to work on a project which uses VS2008 and SQL Server 2008. I haven't used SQL2008 but had used VS2008 a little bit. When I tried to install SQL2008 (Developer edition) got this strange error which says "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installation has failed. SQL 2008 Setup requires .NET 3.5 to be installed." Strange thing is I had installed ......

Posted On Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:21 PM .net

Nov 08

Add a user programmatically to a User Group in SharePoint

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/// <summary> /// Add a user to a Sharepoint group /// </summary> /// <param name="userLoginName">Login name of the user to add</param> /// <param name="userGroupName">Group name to add</param> private void AddUserToAGroup(string userLoginName, string userGroupName) { //Executes this method with Full Control rights ......

Posted On Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:47 AM .net , MOSS , MOSS Object Model

Nov 08

Understand SharePoint Permissions

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Check these really good articles by James Tsai. Understand SharePoint Permissions - Part 1. SPBasePermissions in Hex, Decimal and Binary - The Basics Understand SharePoint Permissions - Part 2. Check SharePoint user/group permissions with Permissions web service and JavaScript Thanks Suranja for sending me these links ......

Posted On Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:07 AM

Sep 08

Can we deploy a Content Type as a feature with some extended settings like "Workflow settings" and "Information management policy settings"?

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I have a small question for sharepoint experts. :) Can we deploy a Content Type as a feature with some extended settings like "Workflow settings" and "Information management policy settings"? If so please enlighten me on how to do that ......

Posted On Tuesday, September 2, 2008 6:41 AM misc

Sep 08

Connecting to the VPC Console Session Directly from RDP

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Type below in the command line replacing <MC name or IP> with the machine name or IP you want to connect. This works with WinXP and Vista. mstsc -v:<MC name or IP> /f -console Updated: :D There is a easy way. Just type mstsc /console in the command prompt ......

Posted On Monday, September 1, 2008 9:31 PM misc

Aug 08

STSDEV: Simple Tools for SharePoint 2007 Development, With different project name support

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STSDEV is a simple tool for SharePoint developers. It helps you to create SharePoint projects (with solutions precisely) and deploy templates and components into the SharePoint 2007 platform. http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev This tool creates project and solution in same name and in the same folder. We all know we never put the solution and project files ......

Posted On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:39 AM .net , MOSS