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Story of wrong content type and InfoPath publishing location
29 April 09 01:54 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
I found myself troubleshooting on issue that I thought shouldn’t be issue anymore. I have created InfoPath form and published it to the SharePoint. However when I created new form using that template it ended up using wrong content type at my library. Read More...
SQL Server Profiler and SPQuery
21 June 08 10:58 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
Question: I’m using SPQuery to retrieve items from my SharePoint list and now I want to know little bit more about SPQuery properties. Actually I’m interested about performance related things since I’m not sure about my query currently. I currently have Read More...
Link: SharePoint slow spin-up times…
29 May 08 06:14 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
I accidently found myself on this page: SharePoint 2007 Quirks - Solving painfully slow spin-up times . After reading that article I was forced to test that. And my stsadm experience was really fast after that! So this link deserves a link post even if Read More...
CRM 4.0 (or SharePoint or custom application) and DebugView
07 May 08 10:04 AM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Every now and then I’m find myself trying to solve same issues over and over again :-) That’s why I found myself (again) using DebugView as my debugging assistant at remote box. If you don’t know what DebugView is then you should definitely try it out. Read More...
Custom SharePoint application and System.IO.FileNotFoundException
23 February 08 10:55 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
Question: I have normal user access rights at SharePoint but I'm administrator of the physical SharePoint box. I don't have access rights to SharePoint databases but I still need to run few lines of code against SharePoint. I have created small console Read More...
CRM 4.0, SharePoint and ASP.NET Trace
23 February 08 08:12 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Sometimes I tend to forget how much stuff is built into .NET Framework. Framework gives you nice set of features that you can use without writing a single line of code. ASP.NET Trace is one of them. I know that it's nothing new but I think that it's still Read More...
Catching unhandled exceptions in SharePoint
04 February 08 06:13 PM | jannemattila | 18 Comments   
If you have done some dev stuff with MOSS you have most likely seen this: " An unexpected error has occurred. " is something that you probably don't want to see at your browser.... you want to have customized error page. In ASP.NET application you normally Read More...
Create Silverlight 1.1 applications for SharePoint with VS2008
19 December 07 11:26 PM | jannemattila | 11 Comments   
Title says it all :-) My plan is to create small walkthrough how you can create your own Silverlight 1.1 application with Visual Studio 2008 and then run it in SharePoint. And I don't want to install a lot of stuff to my SharePoint environment so I'll Read More...
External datasource (SharePoint list) and Forms Server
11 December 07 12:32 PM | jannemattila | 1 Comments   
If you have following setup... You need to create InfoPath Form that you're going to use in Forms Server (=Browser compatible) Your form contains external data source to SharePoint list Data from the list needs to be in certain order in your form (in Read More...
Use dynamically created InfoPath form instance to pre-fill form
08 November 07 12:05 AM | jannemattila | 10 Comments   
If you want to pre-fill InfoPath form before user gets his/her hands to it... you have two ways to do that: Call Web Services from InfoPath It normally takes quite long Dynamically create InfoPath form instance Fast and there isn't any limitations where Read More...
Dynamically create static Excel files for Excel Service
06 November 07 07:07 PM | jannemattila | 3 Comments   
Excel Services is pretty nice for displaying Excel files over the network. But if you're developing Excel Services solution for the first time you might first think of the limitations or something that forces you to build your overall solution in certain Read More...
Adding own custom web service to SharePoint
26 September 07 10:10 PM | jannemattila | 12 Comments   
I posted awhile back about InfoPath and Web Service data connection and I got question about using own web services in SharePoint (or at least I interpreted it that way :-). I tried to describe idea to have own custom "proxy" web service that would do Read More...
MOSS: Backup and restore and missing Timer job definitions
31 August 07 01:44 PM | jannemattila | 11 Comments   
If you have your SharePoint application running on Server1 and you decide to move it to Server2 with backup and restore... you'll (may) end up having application at the Server2 that doesn't have all the necessary timer job definitions. There is however Read More...
Failed to determine definition for Feature...
27 August 07 04:04 PM | jannemattila | 4 Comments   
I was working on SharePoint case and found myself staring at the logs... again :-) I found 11 lines with " Failed to determine definition for Feature with ID ..." and it was repeating quite often. And that error is something new for me... And if you have Read More...
How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools to XP or Vista
16 August 07 06:42 AM | jannemattila | 81 Comments   
I got email from Philip Edney with a hint that how you can install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions (VSeWSS) for none-Windows 2003 server OS. Of course since that's not supported you'll have to do small registry hack Read More...
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