Recently, I was encountering insanely slow project loading times during debugging in Visual Studio 2008. Interestingly, this only happened while loading the project only in debug mode. Also, during the slow symbol loading time, the status bar at Visual...

Lately, I have been doing Test Driven development in my development projects. I have noticed a strange issue which occurs especially when the code coverage is enabled for the assemblies. The result is , unit tests works normally in Debug mode and do not...

Recently one of my clients had a requirement to go into Edit mode of a sharepoint page using a manual link displayed in quick launch. He was lazy of going to Site Actions -> Edit Page and then again going somewhere else for Exit Edit Mode :) To...

Recently, I have seen a lot of discussions on forums about showing user's mailbox on a portal homepage. This is very similar to the case in My Site, but in this case the portal is not My Site and the requirement is to let each user view his/her mailbox...

Most of the ASP.NET 2.0 controls provide way to add client events to them. For example, TextBoxes, checkbox are simply rendered as <input> elements and can be easily hooked to JavaScript functions either programmatically or declaratively. However...

I used to get a very frequent error whenever I got my document library offline to Outlook 2007. Task 'SharePoint' reported error (0x8000FFFF) : 'An error occurred either in Outlook or SharePoint. Contact the SharePoint site administrator.' or 'Outlook...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Infopath 2007 provides an out of the box contact selector control to select the user and validate against the Active Directory. In this blog, We will see, how to get more out of this control. Performing...

There are two confusing terms in MOSS 2007, site templates and site definitions. A site template is a .stp file which contains only the difference of changes from the Original site definition. A user wants to install a custom .stp file must have a site...

Support of infopath 2007 browser rendering has opened a whole lot of options for web forms. Now instead of creating a form in ASPX , one can create an infopath form and take advantage of various submitting options like submitting to web service, database...

Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server doesn't have support of localization in multiple Languages natively. The document at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/sps2003/maintain/spsinatl.mspx#E5F Discusses this situation. It is clearly mentioned...

Here I would discuss strategies to disable caching in your pages especially related to ASP.net and MOSS 2007. If you wanted to prevent caching in plain old HTML, you would use these directives <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"> <meta http...

If you are wondering, when you go to create page in your sharepoint site and cannot see Data Connection Library option there, most likely, you do not have MOSS 2007 installed. Data Connection Library is a document library which lets you hold you data...

Filter webparts in WSS are a great way to provide filtering in many different webparts like List View, Business Data Catalog, Excel Web Access etc. They are also great way to provide data view personalization when used with Excel services coupled with...

How often you have encountered the infamous Unknown Error on Sharepoint 2007 pages. If you are a Sharepoint developer, chances are that innumerable times :) However, if you are also seasoned ASP.NET developer as well, you also know the trick behind...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Recently I developed an RSS Reader webpart which would take the RSS URL of list to render its feeds. Very much same like the out of the box webpart with the exception that it...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Infopath 2007 provides rich validation function for each of its controls. For ex, you can validate a text box or a field For conditions such as equal to, is blank, is greater than...

Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator....

WinDbg is a powerful tool to debug applications. Lately, its use has been extended to managed debugging as well through an extension called sos.dll (Son of Strike). Sos.dll is shipped with both .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET 1.1 Framework and is a WinDbg...

Lately, I have been working a lot with site templates in MOSS 2007. I have seen common issues which keep occurring now and then. I am posting the resolution of those since you might also run across them frequently.   File Cannot be found This one...

You may face this error while Adding / Removing features from Visual Studio 2008 if SP1 is already installed. One of the workaround is to uninstall SP1 before this operation and install it again after performing this operation. However, this can be tedious...

This is fairly undocumented piece of information which I have got from this blog http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=242 I havn't tried it myself, so I cannot gaurantee its completeness. I am posting it here for the sake...

There is a mysterious stalemate occurs when you create a normal sharepoint Designer workflow with An action of sending a mail to a sharepoint group. The workflow runs fine when run under Administrator Account but shows status stopped when run under...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Getting Unknown Error on this page?. No helpful clue in Sharepoint log or Event Viewer? This can happen if database record in the list of published InfoPath forms had a null where it shouldn't be....

I recently faced this error while connecting to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis services from Microsoft Excel 2007. Inspite of the several solutions given on various sites none of them seemed to work. The solution was simple, you need to install Microsoft...

Normal installation of MOSS 2007 require a farm of computers like domain controller, database server and atlast a web server for a reasonable performance. But if you are a home user like me, who has unfortunately only a single laptop , even then you...