Powlo's SharePoint Treats

Adding custom SharePoint Toolbar and ToolbarButtons in code

2008-02-25T02:21:00Z

Part 3: Extending your web part to include toolbars SharePoint toolbars use user controls (.ascx files) to control HTML rendering and layout. This is great if you have an ASPX page to use them on (in fact, you can base your efforts off one of the built in pages in the layouts directory). However, this presents an interesting challenge when you want to create toolbars through assembly code alone. You'll notice there's no constructor for the two useful classes, Toolbar and ToolbarButton in the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls...(read more)

SPGridView: Using Filter properties

2007-05-15T10:56:00Z

Great news everyone \o/ - a solution to setting an SPGridView filter has been researched and documented in this post over at Bob's SharePoint Bonanza - well done that man! This should give you pretty much everything you need to build an SPGridView control which provides custom data binding, grouping, drop down menus and pagination - see part 1 and part 2 in this blog for an introduction....(read more)

SPGridView: Adding paging to SharePoint when using custom data sources

2007-03-23T16:53:00Z

In 'Part 1: Using SPGridview, adding menus, grouping and sorting' I looked at how to use an SPGridView from the ground up to bind to a custom DataSet. One of the features I omitted at the time was paging, and this post shows you how to add paging support to your grid....(read more)

SPGridView and SPMenuField: Displaying custom data through SharePoint lists

2007-02-26T01:30:00Z

Step-by-step guide to using SPGridView and SPMenuField to build a Web Part which uses the standard SharePoint UI controls to render non-SharePoint data, in this case from a classic .NET DataSet....(read more)

MOSS Enterprise Search - 16 things you might not know

2007-02-26T01:08:00Z

Hello everybody \o/ - a few bits and pieces you might find useful when designing and deploying Enterprise Search based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 - most of these tips can be credited to some Partner training delivered by Morten Schioldan. Really interesting things On document libraries which support approval, users might be able to search and view abstracts for unpublished content which they would otherwise not be able to see. This happens if the crawler account has permission to view drafts,...(read more)

Deploying and debugging Web Parts

2007-02-26T01:07:00Z

When it comes to deploying and debugging your Web Part, you're spoilt for choice. My preference is to package the web part into a cab file, creating and including a manifest XML and DWP file. This should be familiar ground to seasoned web part developers, but an assortment of good MSDN and community content is available on this topic. Then deploy into the SharePoint mist with stsadm. Debugging Tip 0 - Setting up your environment Check your environment is configured per Debugging Web Parts , the most...(read more)

Fix for error: Outlook could not create the work file

2007-01-01T20:39:00Z

A friend of mine, Chris Fenly from Waterstons, got in touch today about a weird problem he was having with two Windows XP SP 2 machines running Office 2003. Opening Word or Outlook generated the error "Outlook could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable." It's an issue which a few people seem to have according to Internet search engines. Anyway, before I could be of any help, he'd fixed it. On his machines HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\User Shell...(read more)