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May 2009 - Posts

How to create custom Submit posting action handler to send email for MCMS 2002

Recently a customer came up with an issue and wanted to create a custom submit action button handler in CMS 2002 and send email to the editor/moderator. The requirement was that the user should be able to select which editor or moderator the email needs Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 10:49 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

SPWebConfigModification does not work on Farms with multiple WFEs

Sometime back a customer came up with an issue. He has written a code in FeatureActivated event handler to add an entry into Web.Config file by using SPWebConfigModification API. The same entry was being removed in FeatureDeactivating event handler. The Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 4:26 AM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

WSRPConsumerWebPart does not have unique ID for userContextKey

A customer came up with an issue. WSRPConsumerWebPart ’s userContextKey is always sending user’s display name when communicating with the producer. They were having a requirement that the userContextKey have to be a unique value to identify the user. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:37 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments

How to programmatically complete Approval workflow task

A team mate of mine was stuck with a curious issue. She was using SharePoint’s in-built Approval workflow but was using a custom ASP.net application to talk to a custom webservice hosted inside SharePoint server. That particular web service was having Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:11 PM by Manpreet Alag | 3 Comments

Parser error : “The async attribute on the page directive is not allowed in this page”

I have seen this error on various forums for quite sometime and wondered what is that SharePoint is doing around this? It usually happens when you add Asyc="True" attribute to a SharePoint page and try to run the page, you get Parser error "The async Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:32 PM by Manpreet Alag | 4 Comments

SPWebConfigModification adds the entry in web.config, but does not remove it

I was working with one of my colleague on an issue. It was a weird one, where customer was using SPWebConfigModification class to add the safe control entry into the web.config. The sample code being used was adapted from the SPWebConfigModification page Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 3:23 PM by Manpreet Alag | 3 Comments

Attachments disappear with custom email event handler

I was working with custom email event handler in SharePoint using SPEmailEventReceiver and found that when using the default functionality of I am able to configure and get the attachments to be added to the document library. Here is how the Incoming Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:20 AM by Manpreet Alag | 17 Comments

How to “not” connect SharePoint document library to Outlook Client

Recently while working with a customer, got a requirement which got me digging into the emails generated by SharePoint alerts. When you setup alert in a SharePoint document library and get an alert email, you get an option to connect or subscribe to that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:11 PM by Manpreet Alag | 1 Comments
 
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