Vu's Technical Notepad

If you've searched the web for articles on how to create custom web parts, then you will see some articles that describe how to do it in SharePoint 2003 and some will describe techniques in 2007. Make sure you are reading the article for the right version Read More...

I write a lot of custom code for MOSS. There are times when I need to save configuration settings for some of the components I write. Saving them in the <AppSettings> section of web.config is the easiest way, but hard to maintain. What I'd rather Read More...

A few good blog entries that talk about SharePoint web parts and AJAX: http://sharethispoint.com/archive/2007/02/28/Using-a-SPGridView-inside-an-ASP.net-Ajax-UpdatePanel.aspx http://www.capdes.com/2007/02/ajaxbasepart_easy_aspnet_20_aj.html http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/20/asp-net-ajax-and-sharepoint.asp Read More...

On a recent MCMS to MOSS conversion project, I had to convert some existing templates to page layouts. There were a couple of templates which were using AJAX. Each template has its own instance of the ScriptManager because each has a different ServiceReference Read More...

Two great blog entries describing MOSS Content Deployment and how to configure it: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/05/02/588140.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/content-deployment-step-by-step-tutorial.aspx Read More...

I spent a couple of nights working a custom web part for a client. The purpose of the web part is to recursively walk through all sub-sites and roll up all the calendar events marked with a special flag. After including it in a feature, deploying and Read More...

I ran into this problem the other day, and it took me a long time to figure this out. I figure I save you the aggravation by sharing the workaround with you guys... I had created a custom master page for a client. That master page was then applied to Read More...

I was asked to help one of my clients trouble shoot a problem in their MOSS environment one day. They gave me access to their Central Admin site and made me farm administrator. After logging onto the Central Admin site, I noticed a couple of important Read More...