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[wait…is this a (*gulp*) technical post? sheesh…when’s the last time I actually posted dev/technical content? I was shocked to find that it was March 2005 , when I posted three fairly useful items — more than a year ago! Well, then…let’s get going, and
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By now, the commotion surrounding KB 898631 has died down somewhat, after an inital explosion of commentary. Serge's first post seemed to be the initial spark that lit the tinder, and I suspect that his was but the most immediately recognizable voice
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Here's a sample console application written in C# which will copy the permissions from one document library to another using the built-in Permissions.asmx WebService. Note that this sample does not account for cross-domain use, etc. This will *only* work
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The SDK documents the GetAlertCreationLink() method as part of every class in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Alerts namespace. However, if we want to utilize this method in some way -- for example, to generate our own "Alert Me" link on a custom search
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First, some terminology. The terms "ghosted" and "unghosted" get thrown around a lot when talking about SharePoint site definitions, and all too often, they are used incorrectly. Here's the deal: Ghosted: a ghosted page is one that is read directly from
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NOTE: In this article, I discuss making some changes to SharePoint which are unsupported by Microsoft. As an employee within the Support realm, I want to stress that the CheckPermissions() solution below is currently unsupported by Microsoft -- if you
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The SDK includes documentation explaining how to create a custom Jscript file that can override the default functions that create items in the cute little drop-down menu associated with list items. For example, the drop-down below is for a PowerPoint
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On the surface, SharePoint can easily seem like a restrictive end-user, UI-based application; perhaps because it contains so much functionality out-of-the-box, I think it can be easy to forget -- or fail to realize -- just how flexible the product is.
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You can lead a CAML to water, but... The current MSDN documentation contains what I might call *adequate* coverage of the use of Web Services with Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0 In the case of simple operations, such as retrieving list items, the samples
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It's been one of those weeks, this week, and I haven't gotten around to posting any new information in a few days. A fair snapshot of how things have been going: over the weekend, I applied a healthy dose of a “weed and feed“ product to my lawn -- specially
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UPDATE: Download details: Microsoft SharePointPSSearch SQL Syntax (Preview) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6a10783-a4e4-4463-8444-f88be48760b3&displaylang=en This "SQL Syntax" is MSSQLFT explained in near-excruciating detail,
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This first Sharepoint-related post is a relatively complete example of how to create a custom web part with a custom tool part that uses a pop-up modal dialog (a “Web Dialog“) to choose a value and return it to the tool part. My sample uses a pretty silly
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