Writing custom code for SharePoint

Blog retirement

Since I am no longer a member of the SharePoint support team at Microsoft, there will be no future...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 09/02/2010

Delete lots of items in the site collection Recycle Bin

It happened that after some time, the site collection Recycle Bin got "filled" with lots of items...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 06/30/2010

June 2010 Cumulative Update released!

The June 2010 Cumulative Update was just released!Descriptions:WSS:...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 06/30/2010

The web application could not be found

Supposed you're using the following: - SharePoint Server 2010 or SharePoint Foundation 2010 - Visual...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 06/23/2010

Change global people-picker settings programatically

Supposed that you want to change the peoplepicker-searchadcustomquery property via STSADM and, for...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 06/21/2010

Easy farm passphrase recovery

Since it happened twice that I forgot my MSF2010 testing environment's farm passphrase, I think that...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 05/26/2010

Since the RTM versions of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 05/07/2010

April 2010 Cumulative Update released!

This cumulative update includes a fix for a possible memory leak (which may cause the application...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 04/30/2010

'Modified' field not getting updated anymore

It has occured that the 'Modified' field would not get updated automatically after a change has been...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 04/20/2010

Office 2010 reaches RTM!

These are times for great announcements, so we're going to keep them coming! Office 2010 (including...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 04/19/2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 available!

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 were finally released! Below you can find some of the...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 04/14/2010

Various "Access Denied" error messages / lack of functionality on site

This time it's again not about development, but rather about multiple "unexplainable" behaviors on a...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 04/02/2010

Document Information Panel cannot open the form

Supposed that you create a Site Content Type and add a lookup field column to it. You then associate...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 03/30/2010

Use SQL Server Management Studio Express with SQL Server Embedded Edition

Ever installed a WSS stand-alone machine? Well in this case, all your databases will be hosted by a...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 03/04/2010

February 2010 Cumulative Update released!

Below is the usual information. This one also came in right on time!Descriptions:WSS:...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 03/04/2010

Event handlers for the Datasheet view

Due to some reasons, in very rare cases columns defined in a content type would lose their...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/22/2010

Survey results for questions with multiple answers

This is a rather nice one ...Considering the fact that I've been working in market research for some...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/12/2010

Errors when using loops in custom workflows

Custom workflows are always fun to develop and run, aren't they? Just not when they start throwing...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/12/2010

Alert jobs do not take ST / DST changes into account

This time, it's not about SharePoint Development, but I really think this may be useful to many. It...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/10/2010

Files or folders not visible in the SharePoint UI

Here's how it goes: Certain files or folders are not visible in the SharePoint UI ("Normal View"),...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/10/2010

This may sound like an odd question, but may make perfect sense in a certain context...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/10/2010

Customize drop-down fields for SPLists

All of us love to use lookup columns. A lot.But what happens when you add two lookup fields to a...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/10/2010

STSADM export / import fails because of "ghost" event handlers

It's not uncommon at all to encounter the following scenario:A SPS 2003 environment on which you had...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 02/10/2010

Backing up and restoring "sensitive" metadata

It happened a few times that specific lists or document libraries showed behaviors which we couldn't...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 12/18/2009

December 2009 Cumulative Update released!

Below is the usual information. This one actually came in very early!Descriptions:WSS:...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 12/18/2009

October 2009 Cumulative Update released!

Here is the information, apologies for the delay: Descriptions:WSS:...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 11/12/2009

Copy the versioning data to a custom column on a document library

This is a rather interesting one, regarding SharePoint 2007 document libraries, Office Word 2007 and...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 09/22/2009

Working with the SPMeeting.LinkWithEvent() method

The scenario we’re focusing on is the following: 1. Create a new Team Site2. Create a new...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 09/19/2009

Edit documents directly from the search results page

While using SharePoint 2007, I have come across the following behavior:- When clicking on a...

Author: Rares Marinescu Date: 09/18/2009