Sridhar's Blog : WSS 2.0

HowTo: Create a quizzing application with SharePoint 2007

sridhara — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:44:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

sridhara — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)

"The security validation for this page is invalid" error when updating objects through SharePoint object model

sridhara — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:51:00 GMT

This error is often encountered when SharePoint OM is used to update site/web/list objects from within a web context. Some thing so basic as the code below could fail: using ( SPSite site = new SPSite ( "http://moss" )) { using ( SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())...(read more)

GetWebTemplate web method does not return & AddList web method does not recognize my custom list templates!

sridhara — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:01:00 GMT

When you use the “GetWebTemplate” web method provided through webs.asmx web service, you’ll notice that the custom list templates you might have created is not available in the collection returned. This is because the OM call that happens behind-the-wires,...(read more)

"Out of Memory" exception - when adding item to a list using SharePoint OM

sridhara — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Here’s the scenario: A tool that’s designed to add log messages from an application to a SharePoint list. The log messages are themselves “strings”, which when put in a text file may vary anywhere between 1kb to 10mb in size. At a single time, this logging...(read more)

Starting note on Content Editor Web Part

sridhara — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:51:00 GMT

Recently, I worked a tricky and interesting case where a customer wanted to “silently” put a file in user’s computer. My buddy, Sowmyan bet me by blogging about it here . A job superbly done!! Watch out for enabling Initialize and script ActiveX controls...(read more)