Andrew Noon's Blog

Contact Selector / People Editor

I just spent far too long trying to find a blog on adding the SharePoint PeopleEditor control to InfoPath. I've done it before but I couldn't remember how! The controls are so similar that I didn't think the names would be different...

Published 12-11-2008 5:30 PM by Andrew Noon

Update on setting ReadOnly status on an SPSite

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forgive me blog for I have sinned, it has been 6 months (or so) since my last confession...

Published 11-11-2008 9:10 AM by Andrew Noon

SQL Server 2005 & Visual Studio 2008

I was having untold problems installing a new VM. Windows 2008 with MOSS 2007, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005. Because I was building in that order I kept having problems after installing SQL Server. Basically it didn't install the Management...

Published 06-15-2008 1:02 AM by Andrew Noon

Everyone wants one!

I've written so many SharePoint asset viewer type web parts (or applications) over the last few years I thought it was about time I blogged some code to get you started yourselves, the following will render a simple treeview that will allow you to...

Published 03-20-2008 1:28 PM by Andrew Noon

Collecting data from users in SharePoint workflow's created in Visual Studio 2008

In my previous blog entry I explained how to create a workflow for SharePoint using Visual Studio 2008. It was a simple workflow designed to get you started, but what happens when that’s not enough? Well the next, most natural step is to collect...

Published 02-11-2008 2:40 PM by Andrew Noon

SharePoint 2007 workflow with Visual Studio 2008

Before getting into this I thought developing workflow for SharePoint 2007 was a complex and daunting task to undertake. Whilst you still won’t find me saying it’s easy I will say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how intuitive the process has been...

Published 02-06-2008 5:12 PM by Andrew Noon

SPSite ReadOnly & WriteLocked properties fail on a GET request

So the following lines of code look pretty simple: SPSite site = new SPSite(sSiteURL); ... web.Site.ReadOnly = true; ... What's even better is that they actually work. Until that is they become part of a GET request (i.e. from a web page). If your...

Published 01-21-2008 4:20 PM by Andrew Noon

Adding Groups and Users in MOSS 2007

All I wanted to do was get hold of a users' email address and preferred name from the profile database. I needed to get it from my web service so that I could go ahead and add the user to a custom group. So I put some code together: ServerContext...

Published 12-12-2007 6:11 PM by Andrew Noon

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) - RELEASED!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en#filelist The link to the Excel spreadsheet of changes is broken but I fiddled and found that they'd linked to an xlsx file but it's...

Published 12-11-2007 9:17 PM by Andrew Noon

InfoPath Forms Server, Data Sources and Authentication

OK, So I put together a nice little InfoPath form, nothing too flash - it collects some data about a site and sub sites and then goes ahead and calls a web service to create the site, sub sites and sets permissions. Problem is that while the form works...

Published 12-06-2007 10:02 PM by Andrew Noon

Changing the MOSS "Sent To" behaviour

Great post from Mark Wilson: http://planetwilson.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-add-picker-to-send-to-other.html Does what you hoped it would do OOTB!

Published 09-26-2007 9:59 PM by Andrew Noon

Workflow with SharePoint Designer - collecting data

OK, so if we're talking real workflow then SharePoint Designer (SpD), clearly doesn't cut it and you need to look to other workflow solution providers (personally I like and have good experience of K2). However for quick wins, you might find SpD...

Published 09-18-2007 1:16 PM by Andrew Noon

Re-parenting a SharePoint Designer workflow to a different list

Before I start there is a good guide to transforming a SharePoint Designer workflow to a visual studio .net workflow here: Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio . This will allow you to package a workflow up as a feature and deploy and...

Published 09-18-2007 11:40 AM by Andrew Noon

Defining multiple authentication providers to a single MOSS 2007 web application

email I wrote this some time ago but never got around to blogging it. Much of the content is similar to information already out there but I think there is enough that is different to still warrant a quick blog... In particular I'd like to thank ANdrew...

Published 07-04-2007 2:52 PM by Andrew Noon

Settings for blog writers - Windows Live Writer

I noticed that in mtaylors blog http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mtaylor/archive/2007/06/01/windows-live-writer.aspx the pre-disaster instructions for setting up your blog writer to work with SharePointBlogs was to use the posting URL http://www.sharepointblogs...

Published 07-04-2007 2:42 PM by Andrew Noon

Nothing to do with SharePoint!

Just thought I'd resurrect my blogging and the first thing I want to do is tell you how great I think the Linked In web site is for colleague tracking accross company boundaries. Basically you build up a list of colleagues and contacts and by doing...

Published 11-29-2006 12:51 AM by Andrew Noon

MOSS 2007 - Increasing the navigation depth

I don't know about you but I found the out of the box fly-out navigation depth (1 sub-level) a bit basic. Here's how to customise the depth setting: The depth setting is in the SharePoint:AspMenu tag and it's name is MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels...

Published 11-29-2006 12:51 AM by Andrew Noon

MSD2D SharePoint Newsletter - Well worth subscribing!

Most SharePoint developers and architects will already know about this but if not then for regular alerts about some of the, usually simpler, cool stuff you can do with SharePoint it's well worth subscribing the the MSD2D newsletter for SharePoint...

Published 10-06-2006 1:22 PM by Andrew Noon

Business Data Catalog

I was working on a business data application definition for a customer today and had great difficulty getting the SQL like command to work, each time I tried I would run up the SQL profiler and the statement would look something like: exec sp_executesql...

Published 08-24-2006 1:41 AM by Andrew Noon

A couple of great links if you're planning to deploy or migrate to 2007MOSS

I'm always on the lookout for new architecture and deployment guides for 2007MOSS, here are a few that have been released recently: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog This site has more information than you could hope to take...

Published 08-21-2006 6:41 PM by Andrew Noon

Business Data Catalog application definition without the effort!

In the TAP materials and on the DevCon's it was obvious to us all that the business data catalog looked likely to change the way we looked at LOB integration. BUT, what was also abundantly clear was that it was going to be one hell of a job to author...

Published 08-18-2006 9:47 PM by Andrew Noon

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