SharePoint Diaries

The Web application at XXX could not be found when using SharePoint OM in an ASP.NET WebApplication on 64 bit server

When using SharePoint 2010 Server OM code in an ASP.NET web application on a Windows 2008 64 bit...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 06/18/2010

Activating SharePoint 2010 SandBox Solutions aka User Solutions Programmatically

It seems SPUserSolutionCollection.Add though changes the status of a User Solution to 'Activated'...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 06/15/2010

Manipulating SharePoint 2010 User Solutions Programmatically

In continuance of my last post, I noticed that when I added the SPWeb WSPs (SPWeb.SaveAsTemplate) to...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 06/09/2010

My first dig at SharePoint 2010..nah..I have been working on it for some time ..and am sure better...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 06/09/2010

Blank Dialog Box on Clicking Ok button on _layouts/Copy.aspx

The button OK on the copy.aspx (which opens when selecting “Send To-> Other Location”...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 06/04/2010

Unexpected Token Error in the Site Data Web Service during Crawl

Just a small note about naming conventions to take care when declaratively creating fields and...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 06/02/2010

XSL performance issue when using custom Itemstyle Xsl with ContentQueryWebPart.

In one of my support cases customer was using a modified "ItemStyle.xsl" sheet to display...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 05/25/2010

Hiding ECB menus selectively based on an item property

I needed to hide context menu item “Edit Document”, for files of a particular type (which SharePoint...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 05/15/2010

How to Export Values for a MultiLine Column with - Append Changes to Existing Text

One of my customers recently came up with a requirement below : -In a List there’s a column...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 05/14/2010

SPApplicationPool - Never forget that Application pools created in IIS directly cannot be used with the SharePoint object model.

The usual and the slowest way of changing the apppool association of a SharePoint webapplication is...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 03/29/2010

Contenttypebinding, ListUrl and Multi-Lingual Sites

SCENARIO : You have created a custom site definitions and features to create Custom Site columns,...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 10/07/2009

Creating a Global Calendar Webpart using SPCalendarView

In order to make such a custom Calendar Webpart that will display events from all Calendars on the...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/21/2009

Must have cube sheets for SharePoint Developers

Very useful when "12" hive is not readily accessible for a quick search or even otherwise good to...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/21/2009

ItemAdded Event on Document Library & the file.. has been modified by.. on.. error.

I am sure most of us would have faced this issue when an ItemAdded eventreciever is attached to a...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/21/2009

Where do Custom Channel Properties go while migrating a MCMS site to MOSS?

Where do Custom Channel Properties go while migrating MCMS site to MOSS 2007? I am not sure if it’s...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/20/2009

How to Hide Default Content Type from "New" menu

Once I received this question from one of my customer’s who probably hadn’t dabbled much with...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/20/2009

WSS 3.0 Web Services : Some issues and Workarounds Part 1

Here, I write about few interesting scenarios, findings and workarounds while using SharePoint v3...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/19/2009

Content By Query WebPart and the "a" Mystery

It’s about One of my favourites : Content By Query Webpart Quite some time back I faced an...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/18/2009

SharePoint Diaries : My First Post

Having been working, pursuing, supporting and customizing SharePoint for some time now and with...

Author: Manuj Nagpal Date: 09/18/2009