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Switch the sharepoint webpart page Display Mode into Edit Mode and Vice Versa

Recently one of my clients had a requirement to go into Edit mode of a sharepoint page using a manual link displayed in quick launch. He was lazy of going to Site Actions -> Edit Page and then again going somewhere else for Exit Edit Mode :) To give

Passing multiple filter values to EWA pivot table filter cell

Filter webparts in WSS are a great way to provide filtering in many different webparts like List View, Business Data Catalog, Excel Web Access etc. They are also great way to provide data view personalization when used with Excel services coupled with

RSS Reader webpart with tab support and asynchronous periodic data refresh using AJAX

I have recently written my first article on Codeproject. The article describes the development of AJAX enabled webpart on MOSS 2007 SP1. The cool thing about it is the that it also utilizes the AJAX Control Toolkit including programmatically adding and

Implementation of Logging and Instrumentation Application Block in MOSS 2007

Continuing the series of articles on Enterprise Library, I have written the first article on the implementation of Logging Application Block in MOSS 2007. Due to inclusion of formatted code and images, I have directly uploaded this on Codeproject. The

Get RSS Url for a list or Document Library Programmatically

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Reveal Unknown Error on Sharepoint 2007 pages

How often you have encountered the infamous Unknown Error on Sharepoint 2007 pages. If you are a Sharepoint developer, chances are that innumerable times :) However, if you are also seasoned ASP.NET developer as well, you also know the trick behind it

Unknown Error on Manage Form Templates Page (Manageformtemplates.aspx)

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Performing Operations on Infopath 2007 Contact Selector Control using Managed Code

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Doing Data Validations in Infopath 2007 Programmatically

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SharePoint 2007: using ASP.NET server side code in your pages

This is fairly undocumented piece of information which I have got from this blog http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=242 I havn't tried it myself, so I cannot gaurantee its completeness. I am posting it here for the sake

Preventing caching of page : Strategies in ASP.NET

Here I would discuss strategies to disable caching in your pages especially related to ASP.net and MOSS 2007. If you wanted to prevent caching in plain old HTML, you would use these directives <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"> <meta http-equiv="Pragma"

Resolving Workflow Status Stopped when sending mail to a Sharepoint Group

There is a mysterious stalemate occurs when you create a normal sharepoint Designer workflow with An action of sending a mail to a sharepoint group. The workflow runs fine when run under Administrator Account but shows status stopped when run under any

Data View Web Part Problems

Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator. This

Errors syncing SharePoint 2007 lists with Outlook 2007

I used to get a very frequent error whenever I got my document library offline to Outlook 2007. Task 'SharePoint' reported error (0x8000FFFF) : 'An error occurred either in Outlook or SharePoint. Contact the SharePoint site administrator.' or 'Outlook

How to use Site Groups as audiences in Shared Services

SSP's can only target Active Directory lists or Security Groups. Ben Curry shows in his blog, how to use even use Site Groups as audiences in Shared Services ... See more here.. http://mindsharpblogs.com/Ben/archive/2007/01/05/1459.aspx

Cannot find Data Connection Library in WSS v3

If you are wondering, when you go to create page in your sharepoint site and cannot see Data Connection Library option there, most likely, you do not have MOSS 2007 installed. Data Connection Library is a document library which lets you hold you data

Determining the Current User Context inside Sharepoint

W hat's the best way to determine the current user within a custom web part developed for MOSS 2007? I've found four so lutions so far, but I'm pretty sure there are more: 1. Use System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name, like in any ASP.Net web