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• SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb.Dispose() and the webpart error '(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))'

  Weve been working on this one for a while, and it's been driving us nuts... In the current project we're working on, we haven't been able to add any new web parts to pages, nor have we been able to edit the properties on the existing ones... Posted Jul 16 2008, 07:18 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, wss, Development

• Enable MOSS Publishing Feature on site collection built using Team Site definition

  So, earlier I posted how I upgraded WSSv3 to MOSS. After I completed that task, I wanted to see what it would take to turn my existing top level site collection into a publishing site, as the Publishing Feature is one of the lowest hanging fruit in the... Posted Jun 24 2008, 06:01 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, wss

• Upgrade WSSv3 to MOSS?

  This seems to have come up a lot for me lately: We have a client who wants to know what it takes to upgrade from WSSv3 to MOSS. What do they need to do to make the MOSS Features available in their current WSS sites? Having been primarily only working... Posted Jun 24 2008, 03:47 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, wss

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• What happens when you close web parts rather than deleting them?

  So a client came to us today complaining that their SharePoint site was dead. Looking at the performance monitor revealed that the processor was maxed out. SQL showed around 1300 active connections. IISReset and bouncing of the server proved to be of... Posted Jan 18 2008, 04:48 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• 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

• WSS3/MOSS Service Pack 1 Applied Successfully

  Recently, I've seen a lot (read: too many ) posts about the release of SP1 for WSS3 and MOSS . I, however, wanted to post on the success of applying the upgrade. Often, people are concerned about patches and upgrades because they may have heard a... Posted Dec 13 2007, 11:06 AM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• 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

• Applying the MS07-059 Security Rollups for WSS/MOSS

  Just completed applying the security rollups for WSS/MOSS to fix the Elevation of Privilege security vulnerability as well as fixing the daylight savings time change issues. I followed Shane Young's post on performing the install and it was relatively... Posted Oct 21 2007, 01:23 AM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Install and Configure the Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition

  The Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition (CKS:IEE) is a tool that contains many useful pieces for both users and administrators of a publicly accessible SharePoint site and extends the already powerful Forms Based Authentication functionality... Posted Oct 19 2007, 05:23 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Relate to SharePoint as a Database - the two line up pretty well...

  With all the talk about SharePoint as an application platform lately, I figured it might be good to post on the way I like to describe to SharePoint to clients. Sure, you get a lot of neat features out of the box with SharePoint, but I've seen plenty... Posted Sep 25 2007, 01:06 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Creating and deploying a Custom Site Definition as a feature

  Ok, so you really don't develop a custom site definition as a Feature in the WSSv3 sense of the word 'feature ', but you can create a solution package which contains all the needed pieces for the custom site definition, including any Features... Posted Sep 23 2007, 11:42 AM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, WSP Development

• Access Denied error creating content crawl schedule

  When creating a content crawl schedule in MOSS, after pressing ok, the form came back with an access denied message... Error message: ERROR: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) Resolution: http://support.microsoft.com... Posted Aug 31 2007, 08:37 AM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Create DDF/WSP Tool - now with Manifest!

  Yesterday, I released a little tool that creates the ddf and wsp files as part of the vs build process . The downfall was that you still had to manage all those templatefile lines in the manifest file. This morning, I fixed that. The way the app works... Posted Aug 30 2007, 12:14 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, WSP Development

• Create DDF and WSP by building your Visual Studio project

  After wasting so much time by forgetting to add files to the ddf file (and just messing with the ddf file in general) I said to myself, there HAS to be a better way to do this DDF into WSP thing! So this morning I created a little program in an hour and... Posted Aug 29 2007, 01:06 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, WSP Development

• Sample Code for Custom C# MOSS Navigation Using PortalSiteMapProvider

  So, The Mossman commented on my post yesterday saying that a little source around the PSMP would be nice, so just for him, here it is. I figured it would be good to build on Andrew Connell's Telerik MOSS Integration Guide , so this example shows how... Posted Aug 15 2007, 02:47 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Custom C# MOSS Navigation Using PortalSiteMapProvider

  I was talking to a client who was having difficulty developing a navigation control using the methods described in most of the documentation out there, which explains creating a custom Site Map Provider which inherits from the PortalSiteMapProvider (PSMP... Posted Aug 14 2007, 12:01 PM by Rich Finn Filed under: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server