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SPWebPartManager doesn't honour the WebPartCancelEventArgs.Cancel value while deleting the webpart

Some scenarios developers may want to restrict users from deleting webparts from a page, the...

Author: nishandv Date: 09/21/2009

Setting the property 'AllowMultipleValues' resets the control's type to "Lookup" when it is inherited from SPFieldLookup class.

When you develop a custom field type that inherits from SPFieldLookUp/SPFieldUser(not sure about any...

Author: nishandv Date: 09/21/2009

Issue with Multi Field/Group values and SPWorkflowTaskProperties.ExtendedProperties

I encountered an issue when assigning a multi-user data to a workflow task field from within the...

Author: nishandv Date: 09/14/2009

FullTextSqlQuery with QueryText length greater than 4096 characters throws ArgumentOutOfRange exception.

The max number of characters that can be passed through FullTextSqlQuery is 4096 characters, beyond...

Author: nishandv Date: 10/02/2008

How to implement custom User Profile handler?

1: namespace MyNewProfileHandler 2: { 3: public class MyUserProfileHandler : MySiteProfileHandler 4:...

Author: nishandv Date: 08/28/2008

How to add, remove and start workflow programmatically?

Removing Association 1: SPSite site = new SPSite("https://localhost"); 2: SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();...

Author: nishandv Date: 08/27/2008

How to change the Workflow History list programmatically?

1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite("https://localhost"); 2: SPWeb spWeb = spSite.OpenWeb(); 3: SPList...

Author: nishandv Date: 08/27/2008

Updating 'ModerationStatus' field

You might have experienced a road block when trying to the update the ‘ModerationStatus’ field with...

Author: nishandv Date: 06/07/2008

SPWeb.GetObject() throws an exception when site context changes.

Here is the scenario, you may want to get an object(SPListItem) without iterating through the list...

Author: nishandv Date: 06/07/2008

How to delete SPRecycleBin items?

1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite("https://nishand:100/sites/InternetSite/"); 2:...

Author: nishandv Date: 06/07/2008

What does the SPWeb.ParserEnabled property do?

When we set SPWeb.ParserEnabled to false, it disables the document parser (there will not be any...

Author: nishandv Date: 06/06/2008

Changing the SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays property

By default the SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays property value is set to ‘60’ days, to set this...

Author: nishandv Date: 09/11/2007

How to hide subsite's GlobalNavigation nodes/tabs through SharePoint API?

When we create a site either through UI or OM, it will not come as a tab unless you check the option...

Author: nishandv Date: 09/10/2007

How to create SearchAlert Programmatically?

Note: Make sure that you have enabled search based alerts SSP-> Search Settings -> Search...

Author: nishandv Date: 07/05/2007

How to set user permissions programmatically?

1: SPSite site = null; 2: SPWeb web = null; 3: site = new...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/24/2007

The InfoPath form's 'Attachment control doesn't work with SharePoint Workflow forms.

When we use InfoPath form as a workflow form with an attachment control, on selecting a file says...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

How to update Content Types through the Object Model?

When we add a field to the site content type SharePoint doesn't push-down those changes to the...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

When you try accessing the ProjectDrillDownPart reference from a windows/console application returns 'ErrorWebPart' object instead of orginal object

Per my observation, this behavior is due to some internal expection occured because of...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

How to create an XMLFormView control in custom aspx page within SharePoint?

Adding “XmlFormView” control to a custom aspx page that provisioned within SharePoint throws an...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

UserProfileManager object creating fails when we try to create an instance from a SharePoint workflow application.

A work-around to this issue is, execute the code under admin privileges(impersonate the user), you...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

"User cannot be found." error when creating an FBA site programmatically through Windows application or a console application.

When we create an FBA site through console app or a windows app, we need to have the membership...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

How to install custom security trimmer?

  1. Shared Services Administration: ShareServices1> Search Setting >Crawls Rules > Add or...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

Updating UserProfile Property of type ChoiceList

What I found from my research is, before updating the “ChoiceList” set the “MaximumShown” property...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

How to set SPFolder.WelcomePage property?

Some SharePoint objects needs an instance to work perfectly, one example is here; Sample 2 works...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/20/2007

Debugging Workflows

It would be very painful to debugg the workflow, VS provides help to some extend, however for...

Author: nishandv Date: 05/18/2007

Site Customization

.style1 { font-family: trebuchet ms font-size: x-small; } .style2 { font-family: trebuchet ms...

Author: nishandv Date: 11/19/2006

Updates are currently disallowed on GET requests. while creating a WSS site

This exception occurs when your try to create a WSS site from an Asp.Net application. Please make...

Author: nishandv Date: 08/07/2006