Recently, I got a request from one of my friend who had never worked on SharePoint to provide him resources to quickly get on speed with SharePoint. It was really tough to tell about SharePoint technologies (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007), which is such huge and expansive area, to someone who hasn’t seen it...

Many times, I get question from my customers if they should build a new application in SharePoint or ASP.net. For certain kind of applications such as Collaboration or KM Portal, Internet facing web site, intranet social networking site, applications requiring browser enabled forms or Enterprise Search...

Update (7-Jul-2010) I have created another post on similar lines of this post for SharePoint 2010. One thing to note is that many tools that you were using earlier such as VSTS, Fiddler, HttpWatch – they would remain same even in 2010. However, what would change mainly is the bench marks (results) that...

Have you come across a situation, where you get a URL and you need to identify what object type is this: SPSite, SPWeb, SPList, SPFolder, SPListItem or SPFile? I faced this multiple times. Recently, I was working on custom content deployment utility. Customer wanted a command line utility, which was...

Have you faced the issue of getting limited to 255 characters when working with your custom field controls? Especially, when you are inheriting from a field such as SPFieldMultiColumn! When you save an item having custom field control with more than 255 characters, you can get this type of message: ...

If you are developing a custom result page, some of the key requirements (in addition to showing relevant results) that are common across many types of projects are: Showing the total number of search results based on the submitted keyword or query so that you can show some statistics like Results...

Recently, while working on a WCM project, I realized that many developers don't know that various properties of a list item (especially document library) are inter dependent and may change based on each other's values. These properties are: Moderation (Approval) status, Scheduling status, Versions Numbers...

I've been working on implementing accessibility requirements for a public facing site on MOSS. Though keywords such as "SharePoint accessibility" provide a number of results on Live Search or any other engine, I had difficult time in searching the appropriate resources. Thought it would be worthwhile...