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• The "datenoyear" field in the SharePoint user profiles

  At the moment I'm working on the new and improved version of the Macaw Birthday web part. This web part uses the Birthday field of the user profile to query for people who will have their birthday in the next "x" days. Where you can... Posted May 13 2008, 03:56 PM by Mirjam with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Search, SharePoint, Development

• Using SPWeb.EnsureUser(loginName) to add a new SPUser to a web

  It happens quite often that I have to write a piece of code to set user permissions on a SharePoint site. One of the challenges you encounter when doing so is that you need to have a valid SPUser object, that is known in the site collection to be able... Posted Dec 20 2007, 04:30 PM by Mirjam with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Security

• Setting item level security in an eventhandler

  Last week I was building a solution for a customer that involved setting item level security on a document in a document library the moment it is added to the document library. I'm not a big fan of item level security, because it can create chaos... Posted Nov 11 2007, 01:45 PM by Mirjam with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Security, Feature

• The use of SPContext

  When building custom web parts for Windows SharePoint Services V3. You can use the SPContext object to get for instance the site or web from the current context. But that's not all you can get from SPContext. You can also get the listitem and the... Posted Feb 23 2007, 08:37 PM by Mirjam with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Search, Development

• The ClassResourcePath for custom webparts in MOSS 2007

  At Macaw we've been using standard project templates for most of our development projects for years. In the project template for custom webparts for SharePoint 2003 we've had a basewebpart. All custom webparts for SharePoint 2003 inherit from... Posted Jan 17 2007, 08:53 PM by Mirjam with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Web Parts

• Impersonation in SharePoint 2007

  In SharePoint 2003 there was no easy way to use impersonation. In SharePoint 2007 there is a nice and easy build in way to use impersonation: SPSite site = new SPSite("SiteCollection_Url"); SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(); SPUser user = web.AllUsers... Posted Nov 02 2006, 03:14 PM by Mirjam with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Impersonation