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'How do I' get redirected to the default Error or Success layouts pages?

You just want the error message to be displayed on the default SharePoint error page. Is this an easy In Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility there are 2 functions: SPUtility.TransferToErrorPage - this transfers the user to the administrative layouts Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:32 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments
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'How do I' create a layouts page

Following the lead of Sara Ford , I think I want to do a 'How do I' piece for SharePoint developers. I don't know how long this will last, but this is the first post. First off, layout pages require the following directives. Try as I may, I have never Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:42 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Starting/Canceling a SharePoint Designer workflow programmatically

I had enough trying to find this code, so I'm putting what I've pieced together to activate a workflow programmatically (specifically a SharePoint Designer Workflow) public static string StartWorkflow(ContractListItem contract, string workflowName) { Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 5:12 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments

SharePoint ReadOnly Field can be written to by workflows

So, I scoured the internet (all of it, I swear) to find some information on readonly fields in SharePoint. Apparently, SharePoint workflows can write to readonly columns. The only problem I'm having now is getting the column to show up in a columns list. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:16 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Addition to Steve Peschka's PartCheck code

I ran into a problem when trying to use Peschka's PartCheck code for My Site autoconfiguration to modify some boolean fields on the Colleague Tracker web part and found some modifications you'll need to make in order to set boolean fields on controls Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:47 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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IIS app pool limits to keep in mind for SharePoint

Depending on your hardware configuration IIS 6.0 does have a potential limit to the number of application pools. The TechNet FAQ for IIS stated here says: The answer varies depending on the hardware and software configurations of your server as well as Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:18 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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SharePoint Star Wars lines

I posted these to Joel Oleson's MSDN blog , but since he's moving the blog, I didn't want to lose them. Uber-nerd SharePoint versions of Star Wars lines: These aren't the content databases you are looking for. (compliments Eric Charran ) If you only knew Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:41 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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Migrating Web Part Pages to Publishing Pages

Unfortunately, you cannot natively migrate web part pages to WCM publishing pages. The benefit of publishing pages manifests itself in the centralized page layouts. Web part pages cannot be modified universally, but publishing page layouts can be thusly Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:54 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 2 Comments
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Joined the Community Kit for SharePoint team

I recently joined the Community Kit for SharePoint team. I'm hoping to enhance the Discussion Board features of SharePoint beyond the very basic forums we get out-of-box. Check it out: http://codeplex.com/cks Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:50 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 0 Comments
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OpenSearch provider for MOSS search

It's nice to have that handy-dandy search bar in the upper right corner of your Internet Explorer browser, but how do you get that to show up with custom searches for MOSS? Well, you'll need to build a custom opensearch provider for your MOSS site. For Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:13 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Migrating MyLinks

So, I was recently asked how to migrate MyLinks from an SPS2003 SharePoint site. The hurdle is that that MyLinks are not easily available in the SPS 2003 API nor are they easy to migrate (provided you don't want to upgrade the shared services provider). Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:56 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments

SharePoint development best practices on MSDN

Some great articles on SharePoint best practices have been published on MSDN. Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects Creating a Windows SharePoint Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 7:28 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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SharePoint customization guide - Brett Geoffroy

If you're into MOSS customizations, check out Brett Geoffroy's MSDN blog . He's done a sweet job organizing all his experience into a guide. Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Introduction Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Part 1a: High-level Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:14 PM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Some great SharePoint training

Official SharePoint Blog – this site has real world examples http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/ Test drive Office 2007 system http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101687261033.aspx MSDN SharePoint Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:52 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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Managed paths for new site collections

Just saw a great demo on planning sites and found out how to use managed paths to create site collections in a web application that do not have to be the /sites/ path. I'm guessing this was the intended approach in SPS 2003, but having never seen it before Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:59 AM by Suman Chakrabarti | 1 Comments
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