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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:44 PM

HowTo: Create a quizzing application with SharePoint 2007

With SharePoint 2007 "Survey" list template, I recently created a quizzing application. The thing with survey list is that it stack ranks the questions taking into account how many of the respondents favored each options within that question. But for
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Attachment(s): CreateQuiz.zip
Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:18 PM

How do I use SecureString type in SharePoint 2007?

SecureString is the type that's used for passwords in SharePoint 2007. You might find its use when you are automating some "higher level" administration operation (like creating a web application for example). How do you use it is shown below: 1: private
Posted by sridhara | 3 Comments
Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:07 PM

The buzz with "UrlQueryString" in SharePoint navigation

SharePoint's navigation APIs have a property exposed that allows us to set query string properties for a URL. Sadly, but not surprisingly, this only works when root site collection has publishing feature enabled. Reason is simple... One a WSS only OR
Posted by sridhara | 1 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 2:01 AM

FBA and User Display Names in SharePoint 2007

If you have been working with FBA for a while, you might have noticed that the user name displayed in the Welcome control shows the account name of the FBA user. This is because of the field the welcome control is mapped to. As shown here, the welcome
Posted by sridhara | 2 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 7:03 PM

Why are my SharePoint Groups drop-down disabled?

This was an interesting issue.  The problem a customer reported was that when they wanted to add a user to a SharePoint Group, the "Add users to a SharePoint group" drop-down was disabled.  On investigation, it was found the customer
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Friday, June 27, 2008 3:42 AM

What permissions are behind the permission levels (roles) in SharePoint

Recently, I was involved in a support request where I had to find out what SPBasePermissions are assigned behind permission level in SharePoint using SharePoint OM code. First some basics about permission level and base permissions. If you are in your
Posted by sridhara | 1 Comments
Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:36 PM

Programming navigation in WSS 3.0

Modifying navigation elements through code is quite tricky in WSS 3.0. Here are few scenarios, I’ve tried to cover that I think will be helpful in playing around with WSS 3.0 navigation elements. I’ve used the top navigation bar in these examples. But
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 1:10 PM

Add/Update "sealed" properties in SharePoint lists

There’s always a question about updating properties in a list in SharePoint. Specifically, properties like “Modified By”, “Modified” etc., WSS 3.0 provides greater flexibility for enabling developers to do this with ease. Usually, this scenario would
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