The title of this post is a bit misleading because it’s actually not possible to index this field. You can map it to a metadata property but you won’t ever get any results back. The fact is, indexing this field is by design not supported in SharePoint...

When using the Event Receivers in SharePoint a common scenario is to update a property on the item the event was fired on. I’ve heard of people running into this issue a few times and it’s not all that obvious what the proper way is to do this. A general...

My main development machine is not domain joined, but I often need to use it to access domain resources. Usually this isn’t an issue as I have the option to enter my credentials through some type of login box. In SQL Management Studio this option doesn...

There is a lot of information out there on working with large lists in SharePoint 2007. There is some good info here and here and Steve Peschka has a great whitepaper on working with large lists in SharePoint 2007 that has been out for a while now. One...

I’ve been working on a utility for the past few days to manipulate some data on a SharePoint server. This code got the “works on my machine” stamp of approval, but every time we ran it against a backup of production data it would hang after processing...

There are a bunch of posts out there on how to get your SharePoint development environment up and running. A quick search on “Setting up your SharePoint development environment” will yield plenty of results to skim through to fit your needs. However,...

If you are developing custom SharePoint applications there is a good chance that you are going to need some custom web services at some point, especially if you are making use of AJAX and JSON.  There is a great walkthrough over on MSDN on how to...

I’m going to take a break from the normal techno-speak ASP.NET and SharePoint for a minute because I was recently reading something that really struck a chord with me as I’ve been experiencing a lot of it lately.  I was reading this article on The...

Since my post on Easily Making the DataFormWebPart Reuseable , I’ve had a couple questions on the parameters and how to make use of them.  I’m going to attempt to document some of the more useful parameters, but hopefully provide a framework for...

Sometimes you will have a feature that you activate on a sub site where you want to change the “Welcome Page” or landing page to be a custom one that you provision through your feature.  I was doing this the other day and realized that it isn’t blatantly...

There are quite a few posts out there on this topic, but I’m yet to find one comprehensive post that walks through this beginning to end and actually works.  Let’s give it a go. A very common scenario for SharePoint publishing sites is to customize...

In the global economy that we live in today, we can no longer assume that everyone using our applications will be speaking English. Currently, it is pretty easy to build a Windows or Web .NET application with support for multiple languages by making use...

There are plenty of examples out there of the many capabilities of the so called "Swiss Army" Web Part, the Data Form Web Part. Although a lot of developers know about the capabilities, many of them dismiss this Web Part as a one-off, not a versatile...

A colleague sparked my interest in this today by asking me if getting the current user ID was possible without writing code. This would be a very trivial task by creating a custom web part but with that comes deployment, maintenance, support, etc. He...

This was an interesting problem that I ran into today that really stumped me for a while. The scenario was this, we had a flash file (swf) sitting in a document library. This flash file was being served up on the home page of the site. All of a sudden...

I've been doing a lot of content management work with SharePoint lately, which means a lot of the same functionality but always a different look and feel. XSLT is one of the main pillars of SharePoint development, and if you haven't been using it or haven...

I find that nearly all my customers want some level of personalization and targeting in their portals and web sites. It seems the world today is filled with so much information one of our biggest problems is information overload. The audiences feature...

Recently a question came across a distribution list that I am a member of about updating the default view through code in SharePoint 2007. Whenever I answer a question like this I try to remember it and blog about it. Hopefully the next time someone is...

UPDATE: In the comments I’ve seen some people saying that this doesn’t work for them. One thing that I discovered recently is that, in order for this to work, the URL specified in your schema.xml file MUST MATCH the List attribute on all your Field references...

I often get the question of how to turn off content approval for a publishing portal w/workflow. Most of the time this request comes because an administrator or content editor is working on the portal and it has not yet been released to production. During...

I ran into an interesting issue in Sharepoint 2007 last week that took me a few hours to solve and was not easy to debug. I couldn't find any info on it anywhere so I thought this would be a good candidate for my first post to this blog. One of my...