Recently I worked a case where the customer was not able to create publishing pages at all.  Whenever they trying doing so, it errors out in the browser and in the ULS logs we see the following stack:   System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index...

There are quite a few articles that talks about implementing a contextual ribbon button that does a post back in SharePoint 2010.  But despite quite a few tries, I’ve not been able to get hold of a complete walk-through on it.  I am posting...

When working SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model on an SSL enabled SharePoint 2010 site, we also need to pass in the certificate and validate it for the client object model calls to work. Below is a sample. 1: private void button1_Click( object sender...

Recently, I was tasked to find out how to update a taxonomy field value in a list item through SharePoint web services (lists.asmx).  Though this sounds quite simple, it turned out to be a good learning. Taxonomy fields are very similar to lookup...

If you are interested (as I was) to know what happens behind the scenes in a SharePoint 2010 Service Application, there’s a very neat way to do this.  I had a specific scenario where I had to understand what happens in the back-end of BCS service...

I had to write up an internal article on creating custom service applications and making it work with SharePoint 2010. This was not an easy joke at all and is pretty involved process. I used the sample walk-through provided in Service Application Framework...

There are 2 ways to upload files to SharePoint 2010 document libraries using managed client object model. The first method uses a client library batch mechanism.  It will encode the binary using BASE64 encoding, which could increase the message size...

Check out previous posts on the same topic: Part1 Part2 Case where an external content type created did not show up in the external content type picker control.  This case was amazing as we (me and the customer) found the cause while on call! The...

In Part1 , I covered a specific scenario related to viewing external list and BDC throttling settings.  In this post, I’ll cover a similar specific scenario but related to authentication. When we create an external content type using SPD2010, the...

I am posting this article split into series covering specific BCS learning when working with customers.  In this post, I’ll cover a specific scenario where when browsing to an external list we might see the following error.   In most cases,...

A lot of download links point to the older version of Geneva framework.  So, if you are like me (like browse to www.bing.com and type in “download geneva framework”) and installed it, possibilities are you have the wrong one. Install the correct...

We used to perform SSO impersonation in BDC in MOSS 2007.  We now have a secure store service application that allows us to specify types of target applications to use for impersonating specific services including BCS.  Here’s a walk-through...

Wow! LINQ to SharePoint 2010 is awesome! You have to work with it to see how it simplifies development tasks.  I especially love the ability to see what underlying CAML that’s generated on the fly and passed to the server for execution.  With...

Setting up claims using AspNetSqlMembershipProvider is very similar to this walk-through.  However, the provider information would be different and we’ll need to add an additional connection string element to specify the SQL Server and the database...

Recently, I ran into an interesting issue.  I thought I’ll post this as I guess most SharePoint Developers could possibly run into it. I used to have my MOSS 2007 development environment on one domain (let’s say mydomain1.com).  I then joined...

This is a walk-through on setting up FBA Claims in SharePoint 2010 using the Active Directory Membership Provider. The very first step is to create a web application AND create that with claims authentication mode.  I am going to provision a web...

It’s been a while I updated my blog posts!  Have been quite busy with SharePoint 2010 and the splendid new things it has to offer.  I realized I’ll take a crack at SharePoint 2010 starting with the several learning opportunities available publicly...

With SharePoint 2007 "Survey" list template, I recently created a quizzing application. The thing with survey list is that it stack ranks the questions taking into account how many of the respondents favored each options within that question. But for...

SecureString is the type that's used for passwords in SharePoint 2007. You might find its use when you are automating some "higher level" administration operation (like creating a web application for example). How do you use it is shown below: 1...

There are good number of articles that explains the different caching option Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides and ways to leverage them to achieve better site performance. However, there are scenarios where you might want to implement...

Being able to perform wildcard search is probably an area that's missing in out of the box search in SharePoint. Here's a small web part sample you can use to perform wildcard search in MOSS 2007 (and it can be engineered backward to fit into SharePoint...

I recently handled a case where the customer sees a "Failed to verify user permissions" error when accessing the DspSts.asmx web service in SharePoint 2007. Below is the code similar to what they were using to invoke the Query method of DspSts.asmx web...

SharePoint's navigation APIs have a property exposed that allows us to set query string properties for a URL. Sadly, but not surprisingly, this only works when root site collection has publishing feature enabled. Reason is simple... One a WSS only...

The "Organization Hierarchy" is a cool little thing that let's SharePoint users to remember who their colleagues are and more importantly who their manager is. If you are wondering about customizing it, honestly, it's quite a bit of a work if you...

If you have been working with FBA for a while, you might have noticed that the user name displayed in the Welcome control shows the account name of the FBA user. This is because of the field the welcome control is mapped to. As shown here, the welcome...