Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Michael Yeager's MSDN Blog

A stigmergic trail of SharePoint, asp.net and Silverlight Solutions

Browse by Tags

All Tags » WSS v3   (RSS)
Talking about EUCCs
I have been getting emails from lots of you wanting the goods -- the real life examples of End User Composed Composites (EUCCs), and more information on the how and why of designing them... Unfortunately I haven't been blogging about EUCCs for a while Read More...
What the heck am I talking about?
Hey, I'm talking about EUCCAs and Versatilities. My last couple of blog posts are my personal crusade to get SharePoint architects and developers to focus on the most productive way (in my opinion) to use SharePoint as an application platform. A EUCCA Read More...
Requirements and Versatilities
Reusable components. A lot of work and effort and thought has been put into reusable components... OK, so let's talk about a specific type of reusable components... let's talk furniture design and Versatilities. There is a certain Scandinavian furniture Read More...
Using STSADM to set Form Services Properties
Use the SetFormsServiceProperty operation as follows: stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn <option name> -pv <option value> Option Names: DefaultDataConnectionTimeout MaxDataConnectionTimeout MaxDataConnectionResponseSize RequireSslForDataConnections Read More...
eXtreme End-User Driven Architectures (XEUDAs)
There is an emergent solution architecture which the most ingenious of our end users are piecing together without our help. It is an architecture without a name - so let's give it one: the eXtreme End-User Driven Architecture or XEUDA (zoo-da) A XEUDA Read More...
Reference list for SharePoint internal field names
Much used reprinting of list of fields with internal names for easy reference: Document Library fields Display Name Internal Name GUID Type ID ID {1d22ea11-1e32-424e-89ab-9fedbadb6ce1} Counter Content Type ID ContentTypeId {03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634} Read More...
Clearing the InfoPath Cache
When you load an InfoPath form, it is cached in the following location on your machine: C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\InfoPath\FormCache2 When a new version of the form is detected, such as when a new version Read More...
Content Deployment Debugging Links
There is more info on Content Deployment issues in earlier blog entries here. The main thing is to first install SP1 and KBs 941422, 948945 and 950279, and 952698 and 952704 (these last two may rollup all the changes in the earlier KBs, I am trying to Read More...
SharePoint Designer Check-in and Check-out and Publishing
Maybe I'm missing a hotfix or something, but SharePoint Designer seems to have a lot of problems with Check-ins and Check-outs. Often it shows a file as checked out when it is actually checked in and vice versa. Sometimes closing SD and opening the site Read More...
Style Library shortcut
Particularly when working on a MOSS Web Content Management site, you may find the need to go to the Style Library in the browser. But you'll find that there isn't a link in Site Settings. This is a tough one - just navigate to: http://<yoursite>/Style Read More...
Non Obvious Details about Content Deployment
When you have Quick Deployment job, and you edit a page and add it to Quick Deployment, the job appears in a list called: Quick Deploy Items Go to: http://<mysite>/Quick Deploy Items to view it. If Quick Deploy is failing, you can go to this list Read More...
Content Deployment Failure
Was able to work through an interesting content deployment issue on a medium SharePoint farm with the help of the following kb: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947285 All Content Deployment Jobs were failing and the error in the event log indicated a Read More...
New Version of the SharePoint v3 Tools for Visual Studio 2005
As of February 11, 2008, there is a version 1.1 of the SharePoint Visual Studio tools that can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en Note: Cannot be installed Read More...
SharePoint SDKs Updated to cover SP1
Version 1.3 of the WSS v3 SDK can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en And the MOSS SDK can be downloaded here (covers and includes WSS v3, you don't need Read More...
Multilingual and other interesting MOSS07 Sites
Been working on multilingual for a few clients, and recently did a quick survey of public MOSS07 sites that are using Variations for multilingual, including: Swiss International Airlines Migros Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights World Vision Read More...
More Posts Next page »
Page view tracker