Adventures in Consulting
This is a place for me to share those little gems one finds when doing consulting work. Since I focus mainly on SharePoint Server, most of the posts will cover topics relating to SharePoint.
Solving the “User cannot be found” error with SPFile.Author
I ran into a bug today that was a bit unusual. We have a custom ASP.NET page that shows information...
Author: Valdon Date: 06/16/2011
Remove List Item Menu Options with Javascript
SharePoint has a lot of JavaScript code to manage UI, and a lot of customization can be done by...
Author: Valdon Date: 06/08/2010
Customizing ASP.NET Validators without using the CustomValidator Control
This isn’t a SharePoint tip, per se, but it is an interesting way to expand on what the default...
Author: Valdon Date: 02/11/2010
FF at the End of a Content Type ID Kills Update Propagation
I just spent a couple of hours tracking down an issue where our content type update code wasn’t...
Author: Valdon Date: 12/04/2009
Creating Several List Instances in a Single Feature
I’m not sure why I didn’t find this earlier, but I have always put a single list instance definition...
Author: Valdon Date: 08/06/2009
Removing Extra Workflow Status Column in Default View
When SharePoint starts a workflow on a list for the first time, it has this annoying behavior of...
Author: Valdon Date: 05/05/2009
Using Calculated Fields to Pad Numbers with Leading Zeros
Just a quick note on one way to put leading zeros in a SharePoint list field using a Calculated...
Author: Valdon Date: 05/05/2009
How to work around bugs in the SPGridView control
SharePoint has a little known web control called SPGridView. This control can give you a SharePoint...
Author: Valdon Date: 03/11/2009
Using Both Field and FieldRef in InfoPath List Loses Data
It appears that if you have both a Field and a FieldRef definition in your SharePoint list...
Author: Valdon Date: 01/23/2009
Getting To the Root (Well Almost) - Navigating the SPWeb Hierarchy
Recently I was faced with the problem of finding an ancestor web (SPWeb object) of the current web....
Author: Valdon Date: 11/11/2008
Empty Active Directory Groups do not Show up for SharePoint 2007 Audiences
I ran into an interesting issue at a customer site. They had dozens of newly created Active...
Author: Valdon Date: 09/08/2008
Lookup Helper Methods
Sometimes when writing custom code for SharePoint, you want to open the list to which another list...
Author: Valdon Date: 06/16/2008
Wrapping Text in a SharePoint WebPart Title
An interesting bit of CSS formatting behavior that I ran across recently at a customer site. They...
Author: Valdon Date: 04/25/2008
Accessing images and other binary files in blob fields through SharePoint BDC
There are many applications that store binary data in blob or varbinary fields of a database,...
Author: Valdon Date: 04/24/2008