Recently a customer came up with an issue and wanted to create a custom submit action button handler in CMS 2002 and send email to the editor/moderator. The requirement was that the user should be able to select which editor or moderator the email needs...

Sometime back a customer came up with an issue. He has written a code in FeatureActivated event handler to add an entry into Web.Config file by using SPWebConfigModification API. The same entry was being removed in FeatureDeactivating event handler. ...

A customer came up with an issue. WSRPConsumerWebPart ’s userContextKey is always sending user’s display name when communicating with the producer. They were having a requirement that the userContextKey have to be a unique value to identify the user....

A team mate of mine was stuck with a curious issue. She was using SharePoint’s in-built Approval workflow but was using a custom ASP.net application to talk to a custom webservice hosted inside SharePoint server. That particular web service was having...

I have seen this error on various forums for quite sometime and wondered what is that SharePoint is doing around this? It usually happens when you add Asyc="True" attribute to a SharePoint page and try to run the page, you get Parser error "The async...

I was working with one of my colleague on an issue. It was a weird one, where customer was using SPWebConfigModification class to add the safe control entry into the web.config. The sample code being used was adapted from the SPWebConfigModification page...

I was working with custom email event handler in SharePoint using SPEmailEventReceiver and found that when using the default functionality of I am able to configure and get the attachments to be added to the document library. Here is how the Incoming...

Recently while working with a customer, got a requirement which got me digging into the emails generated by SharePoint alerts. When you setup alert in a SharePoint document library and get an alert email, you get an option to connect or subscribe to...