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• SharePoint's core.css stylesheet: Put it to where it belongs!

  When rendering CSS stylesheets, SharePoint puts core.css always as the last stylesheet. This post is about how to change this sometimes unwanted behaviour. OK, why bother with how CSS Stylesheets are rendered? Imagine you create your own Stylesheet overriding... Posted Jul 16 2007, 12:25 AM by mhofer1976 with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, Visual Studio, WCM

• Creating custom 404 and landing pages (easy to remember URLs that are redirected) in SharePoint

  This post is about how to create custom landing pages ( www.mysite.com/products or www.mysite.com/newsletter ) that directs the visitor through and easy to remember URL to any page in your deep site hierarchy. It also contains the approach how to create... Posted Jul 12 2007, 03:44 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, Visual Studio, WCM

• SharePoint Solution Deployment: Handy Post-Build Events

  Having built some nice additional SharePoint WebControls, I want them to be deployed as a SharePoint solution, packed into a WSP file - and of course automated. I was very impressed how easy it is, to deploy Workflows based on the MOSS SDK Visual Studio... Posted Jul 06 2007, 12:39 AM by mhofer1976 with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, Workflow, Visual Studio, Development

• SharePoint under the hood - see real error description and callstack/stack trace

  I have always loved the nice SharePoint error messages that are presented when something goes wrong. My most popular error message is "An unknown error occured. Please contact your system administrator.". In order to see the real error messages... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:18 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, WSS, MOSS, SharePoint

• Implementing SPSiteDataQuery - Learning by doing

  (Migrated post from June 19th, 2007; Updated on July 12th (see comments)) Facing the challenge to write a custom query that spans multiple lists that contain subfolders and a rather complex set of metadata, we had to evaluate both methods of querying... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:16 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, SharePoint

• Customizing the Content Query Web Part and Custom Item Styles - Best Practices

  (Migrated post from June 15th, 2007) Facing the challenge to customize the Content Query Web Part by displaying custom site columns (following the wonderful description of Heater Solomon @ http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/customitemstyle.aspx... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:14 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, WSS, MOSS, SharePoint

• MOSS Backup & Restore: Misleading description

  (migrated post from June 15th, 2007) While performing a restore of a MOSS 2007 web application, I found that in the “Restore from Backup - Step 4 of 4: Select Restore Options” screen the following label is very misleading: Login Names And Passwords: If... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:10 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, WSS, Backup and Recovery, MOSS