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• Publishing Web: Inherit Parent Web's Workflow Settings

  In our current SharePoint project, we have a custom site definition based on the out-of-box Publishing Site with Workflow. We found a little problem with this though, because when the out-of-box Features for Publishing and it's Parallel Approval workflow... Posted Jun 20 2008, 01:42 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• Paul Andrew from the SharePoint Team in Wellington - NZ - Speaking at a special UG event

  Body: Paul Andrew is a Senior Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform from Microsoft, Redmond and he will be in Wellington, New Zealand and we are happy to be able to get Paul speak to the local developer community as part of a... Posted Jun 19 2008, 05:23 PM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: Development

• Ajaxify MOSS - now featuring .Net 3.5

  I just updated the Ajaxify MOSS codeplex release to include the needed web.config entries for using the .Net 3.5 version of System.Web.Extensions. There is, however, one manual step you still have to perform to the web.config files in order to get this... Posted Jun 19 2008, 04:51 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• Create Search Crawl Rules Programmatically

  A few days ago, I mentioned that we're trying to automate as much as possible in our new SharePoint based product, and I explained how we are creating custom search scopes in a Feature Receiver . Another component we're automating is the creation... Posted Jun 19 2008, 01:58 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• Create Search Scope in Feature Receiver

  I've recently been working on a SharePoint project which is being offered to clients as a product built on top of the SharePoint framework. While I can't describe in too much detail exactly what the product is, I figured it might be beneficial... Posted Jun 16 2008, 07:56 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• Profile Pictures Library

  I have created a deployment project for Steven Van de Craen 's solution for managing user profile pictures from a single picture library. About the original project: The project itself is a simple event handler that synchronizes a picture library... Posted May 28 2008, 09:23 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, Development

• Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide Released

  Body: Via [ Paul Andrew ] I'm pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released... Posted May 14 2008, 08:31 PM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: Development

• STSADM Extensions for ASP.NET AJAX Configuration in MOSS

  I've started getting tired of following the steps on Mike Ammerlaan's blog for Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint . It's not that the steps are difficult to follow, but there's a lot of stuff you need to get right if you want to... Posted May 12 2008, 01:30 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• How do I get the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX (Prometheus) to work in MOSS?

  Yesterday I posted about using the new RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX in MOSS, and I started moving the old controls in my current project over to the new ones. Just now, I found a problem when I was converting the RadEditor from the old to the new. In... Posted May 08 2008, 04:45 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development, Telerik

• Integrating Newest Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX into SharePoint

  I've been a huge proponent of Telerik over the past few years because of their very impressive controls, support, and documentation - let alone for the fact they are very easy to use. Now that I've been working with SharePoint 2007 for a few years... Posted May 07 2008, 05:43 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development, Telerik

• SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part context menu bug

  This bug was confirmed by Microsoft after we opened a "Severity A" issue on it. The original response from the support guy was : "oh my god!" :) because this kind of bugs are really easy to track down in a superficial QA testing. Eventually... Posted May 07 2008, 03:54 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, Development

• Programmatically Manipulating Variations

  Having spent a great deal of time developing Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 solutions, I've found there's a bunch of stuff I miss from the MCMS API. The single thing I miss the most: CmsContext.Searches.GetByGuid( string ) as HierarchyItem;... Posted Apr 29 2008, 12:32 AM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• Enable Workflow development in a class library project being used to create a WSSv3 Solution

  When creating a WSP in WSSv3, the common development practice is to create a project in Visual Studio using the Class Library project template. The problem with this is that none of the Workflow item templates are present when you try and add a new item... Posted Dec 28 2007, 04:05 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, WSP Development, Development

• Send email from MOSS using Outbound Email settings in Central Administration

  Being Asp.Net developers, we all know we can send email from within custom code using the virtual SMPT server running on the Web Front End server where our code is running, but what if you want to use the same SMTP/Exchange settings you configured in... Posted Dec 14 2007, 01:23 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• Get/Set custom profile properties in Profile Provider for MOSS

  I'm working on a site which uses Forms Based Authentication, and I want to extend the standard user profile with some of my own custom properties. I knew you could define a ProfileProvider in the MOSS web.config file, but the tricky part was getting... Posted Nov 30 2007, 12:34 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Development

• A nice blog post on Debugging in the GAC

  I just came across this nice article and thought I will share it. You Don't Need to Copy PDB Files to Debug in the GAC! -Guru Posted Nov 16 2007, 03:18 PM by SharePoint Journey Filed under: Development

• How to deal with URL fields in SharePoint Lists programmatically

  What seems to be a simple task has very little examples on the web. This is how: //Assuming You have an SPWeb object called "web" SPList list = web.Lists[ "YourList" ]; //Get a list SPListItem item = list.Items[0]; //Get an item item... Posted Oct 24 2007, 09:17 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• SharePoint navigation highlighting - Download project files

  A while ago I have posted a tutorial about how to make SharePoint's navigation highlighting to be more relevant. ( link to the post ) The download link for my sample project was broken, so thanks to some feedback from you I have fixed it. Here is... Posted Oct 15 2007, 06:23 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• SharePoint navigation - Make current item highlighting work

  One thing that bugs me (and a lot of clients of us) is that SharePoint's top menu (AKA Global navigation) highlighting is not working as we expect it to: If you create a subsite directly underneath the root web, and make it appear on global navigation... Posted Sep 18 2007, 08:41 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• The IgnoreIfAlreadyExists File Element Attribute

  Body: This attribute doesn't quite work the way I expected it to, or the way I have seen it described in other places on the web . (The documentation is not as clear as it should be. I really wish it did work the way described in Chris's great... Posted Sep 03 2007, 08:16 AM by Point2Share - By Daniel McPherson Filed under: Development

• Content migration API "Deep Dive" by Stefan Goßner

  Body: Great series of posts by Stefan on how to use the Content Migration API. Very timely for me as we are beginning to investigate how this might be used to synchronise Development -> Test -> Production and Production -> Test -> Development... Posted Sep 03 2007, 03:39 AM by Point2Share - By Daniel McPherson Filed under: Development

• White Paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007

  Good one! Deals with different data access methods for SharePoint Lists and their performance characteristics against different user loads and modes of operation. Excerpt: The test results in this white paper are intended to demonstrate the difference... Posted Aug 30 2007, 12:35 PM by SharePoint Journey Filed under: Development

• Importing SharePoint sites programmatically

  It all started after a simple migration from SPS2003 to MOSS2007. As you know, sites created under the SPS2003 sites directory are migrated as a new site collection each (!). That is not a desirable situation, and many of us use stsadm to export those... Posted Aug 06 2007, 03:34 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Policy

  Although kind of late, but I have just finished reading this document and had to recommend it. Even if your are familiar with most of the customization options available in SharePoint (like myself), reading it in such an organized fashion really help... Posted Jun 10 2007, 09:40 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Development

• SharePoint Customisation Policy 2007 White Paper

  Body: The recently released SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Policy 2007 White Paper provides a great starting point for implementing and managing customisations in a SharePoint based environment. The paper contains a list of customisations... Posted Jun 07 2007, 03:33 PM by Ari Bakker: Posts Filed under: Development