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June 2009 - Posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:33 PM

Understanding MCMS File Cache

How MCMS file upload works: When a file is uploaded, MCMS adds and saves them to the database. Once in the DB, it gets cached on the file system when there is a request for it. What happens when we rename / delete the file in file cache : When we remove/delete
Posted by chandrasekarn | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:29 PM

BDC Web Part - Column filtering

When a BDC web part is mapped with an instance of BDC Application Definition file ( that uses SQL database ), sometimes the column filtering doesn't work. On filtering of the column, it doesn't return any data. The reason being the issue integration of
Posted by chandrasekarn | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:26 PM

Let’s discuss about some BDC Web parts !

Business Data Actions Web Part : ========================== Business Data Actions Web part is used to display all “Actions” from the business data catalog application definition file. It displays all actions of an individual item which we are selecting
Posted by chandrasekarn | 4 Comments
Saturday, June 06, 2009 12:07 AM

Using User control (Web service call ) in SharePoint Web part

Everyone knows how easy it is to use an user control( web service call) in normal ASP.NET application and map it with ObjectDataSource control. But in SharePoint, when ObjectDataSource control is used, it will throw the error "The type specified in the
Posted by chandrasekarn | 6 Comments
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:00 PM

SPS 2003 to MOSS Migration – Applying the same CSS

Many think that just to get same look and feel for any migrated site, we can directly modify Out of the box style sheet pages to get it done. But, it’s not recommended to modify any Out of the box files in SharePoint. We need to use custom css file to
Posted by chandrasekarn | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:57 PM

How BIG is your SharePoint

Size of Site collection: string siteCollectionURL = “ http://localhost:80/sites/TestSite ”; SPSiteAdministration oSPSiteAdministration = new SPSiteAdministration (siteCollectionURL); float scDiskUsage = oSPSiteAdministration.DiskUsed; float sizeOfSiteCollection
Posted by chandrasekarn | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:17 PM

Workflow problem in sending Email attachments of large file size

When a large file size ( typically > 1 MB ) is sent as an Email attachment through Workflow, we might see timed out exception. The exact error message is “System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: The operation has timed out. at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage)”
Posted by chandrasekarn | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:07 PM

BDC Error Messages

· BDC Tool Design Surface Error Message : “Could not process Table ‘xyz’. Make sure you have SELECT rights on the Table/VIEW.” Possible Cause : The schema of the database table is Not dbo Resolution : Change the schema of the table to dbo · SSP File Import
Posted by chandrasekarn | 2 Comments
Monday, June 01, 2009 7:49 PM

CAS in SharePoint

Here i'm going to explain about using Code Access Security (CAS) policy configuration for locking down a webpart that make a "this.Page.LoadControl()" call to load a user control. Ø First create a custom web part, in the CreateChildControls() method load
Posted by chandrasekarn | 2 Comments
 
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