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• SharePoint Console Application Permissions for Read Only Access

  I was recently challenged with trying to come up with a least privilege scenario for running a console application or windows service against a SharePoint Farm to perform read-only type operations. Without the correct permissions there are several exceptions Read More... Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:22 PM by green.cliff | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Reporting Services: Value Either too Large or too Small for a Decimal

  I have seen a few reports recently that have been upgraded from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2008 where a ‘Value either too Large or too small for a decimal’ appears in the chart under certain circumstances. This typically manifest itself when an expression in the Read More... Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:09 PM by green.cliff | 1 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services

• SharePoint CopyIntoItems and Setting a Document Content Type

  I can’t take credit or this one, but a colleague I have been working with was able to figure this out. He doesn’t blog, so I am sharing it with the greater community. Our quest was to upload a document into a document library using the Copy.asmx web service Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:51 PM by green.cliff | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Web Services

• Reporting Services Migration Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  In working with a customer doing a migration from Reporting Services 2005 to 2008 an error appeared when in preview mode that didn’t appear in the previous version. The error was simply #Error in the report and the Error pane in Visual Studio showed The Read More... Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 1:04 PM by green.cliff | 1 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services

• SharePoint Tools Released

  I work in the ISV Practice here at Microsoft. There are two tools recently released to the SharePoint community that should have ISVs and Enterprise customers excited. SPDisposeCheck provides a static source code analysis tool to check for leaks that Read More... Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 2:26 PM by green.cliff | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Discover SharePoint Context within an Integrated SSRS report

  With SQL Reporting Services integration with SharePoint there may be a need to be contextually aware of the site or list where your report resides. With the ability to add code or reference custom assemblies in our report we have a starting point to gather Read More... Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 5:09 PM by green.cliff | 14 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Reporting Services, SSRS Code Examples, CAS

• Controlling Page Size in a Reporting Services Report

  The default page size in the US is Letter, 8.5in x 11in. In other parts of the world A4 (8.3in x 11.7in) is the standard. Reports in Reporting Services are hard coded as part of the design process. In order to control the page size in the rendering process Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:29 PM by green.cliff | 1 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services, SSRS Code Examples

• SharePoint Web Part Embedded Resource Permissions

  It is a normal expectation for companies to embed resources like javascript, CSS and other resources in an assembly. Web Parts are no exceptions. For those of you that deploy everything to the GAC, you can disregard the remainder of this post. The rest Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 3:45 PM by green.cliff | 3 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Web Parts, Embedded Resources, CAS

• Reporting Services: What Happens When I Upgrade

  Recently we were involved in a conversation around upgrading from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2008. The credit for this post goes to Robert Bruckner who guided us during the internal discussion. When you move from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2008 there are things that happen Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:03 PM by green.cliff | 2 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services

• Finding a SharePoint List Template Id

  There are several ways to find out the ID for a List. A typical scenario where a list template id is required is querying a list or set of lists using SPSiteDataQuery. You can find the list template id by looking at the 12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES directory Read More... Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 2:11 PM by green.cliff | 3 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Features

• Unravel the SharePoint Threaded Discussion

  The SharePoint Threaded Discussion is a forum type of post. Underneath, like all things SharePoint, it is a list. By default that list is made up of two content types, Discussion and Message. The content types have IDs of 0x012002 and 0x0107 respectively. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:41 PM by green.cliff | 3 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Threaded Discussion

• SQL Server 2008 RC0 canonical errors during setup

  I was installing the RC0 version of SQL Server 2008 this weekend and kept running into the following error: This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified. There were a lot of these errors in the Feb CTP related to Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 2:12 PM by green.cliff | 8 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

  One of the new features available in SharePoint 2007 are content types. Content types allow you to classify content to be a particular type. By marking content as a particular content type the metadata, workflow and policies associated with that content Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 4:06 PM by green.cliff | 31 Comments

• SharePoint Webs web service CreateContentType and UpdateContentType

  I was experimenting with the SharePoint Webs web service CreateContentType and UpdateContentType methods recently. The goal was to create a base content type and update it by adding an additional column with a separate web service call. According to the Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 7:44 PM by green.cliff | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Web Services

• Adding Web Parts to the Web Part Gallery Using the SharePoint Object Model

  Since my first post was based on removing web parts from the web part gallery of a 'My Site' there have been questions about how to add the web parts back should circumstances require it. This is pretty straight-forward, but can get more interesting depending Read More... Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 5:12 PM by green.cliff | 2 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Web Parts