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• Testing Whether ADFS User Is Authenticated

  I have been working with ADFS claims more and more at work, habitually trying to bridge some of the gaps natively built in between the ADFS and MOSS platform (noticeably visible when working with MOSS specific user and security features like Profiles... Posted May 09 2008, 07:29 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• MethodBase Without Reflection

  One of my friends early this morning (Too early if you ask me. It takes me a lil bit to get my engines going) asked me about getting presently executing method information. Well, that is pretty easy, right? We have System.Reflection that allows us to... Posted May 07 2008, 07:46 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• The Degradation of Empirical Software Development Management Techniques

  Today I went to the last lecture that concluded my foundational MBA course at USC (actually I am still in the lecture hall while I am writing this). The title of the lecture sounded intimidating: The Degradation of Empirical Software Development Management... Posted Apr 24 2008, 09:36 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development, SharePoint 2007 Architecture

• Casting To SPDocumentLibrary

  A friend just asked me the way to cast a SPList To a SPDocumentLibrary so that he could access the document library specific attributes for document library objects. This is one way of doing it: Select For Unformatted Code C#: public static SPWeb GetWeb(string... Posted Apr 10 2008, 02:43 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Returning Table Field Names

  So, today one of my friends asked me if I knew how to return the names of all the fields in a table using a stored procedure so that he could build the names into a generic string collection. This is how you do it: Select For Unformatted Code SQL: CREATE... Posted Apr 07 2008, 10:48 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Next Revision Of CryptoCollaboration (V5)

  I am almost done with the next revision of CryptoCollaboration, which will now make the revision count up to 5. Within a week. Yeesh. I need to get a hobby Anyways, the largest changes are conditional standard encryption of attachments using the same... Posted Mar 31 2008, 08:49 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Using TypeMock.NET To Abstract SharePoint With Mocks

  On my current project, I am developing some pretty intensive SharePoint WebParts that would otherwise take a ton of time when actually making tangible calls to either the SharePoint object model or database. For this reason, I took the advice of some... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:59 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• CryptoCollaboration Version 0.0.0.4 (New) Being Released

  * THIS WILL BE RELEASED MARCH 26, 6:00 p.m. PST * **For more information regarding this project, releases (both past and current), and screen-shot diaries of CryptoCollaboration in action, please visit: http://www.codeplex.com/CryptoCollaboration ** Yeah... Posted Mar 26 2008, 02:59 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development, SharePoint 2007 Security

• CryptoCollaboration Version 0.0.0.2 Alpha Released

  Encryption while by all popular means with collaboration systems remains a somewhat esoteric subject, is nonetheless crucial for maintaining privacy, security, and data integrity. While the native SharePoint security functions do indeed provide some level... Posted Mar 25 2008, 05:22 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development, SharePoint 2007 Security

• Dump Recycle Bin Programmatically

  At times, you may find that you wish to work with SharePoint recycle bins programmatically. I had a friend ask me this morning about approaches regarding dumping objects out of the recycle bin since he was experiencing storage issues disallowing deletion... Posted Mar 25 2008, 01:58 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Returning GUID’s For Internal SharePoint Fields

  So, a friend today asked me a pretty straightforward question. What is the easiest way that one can grab the GUID of the internal fields that SharePoint provides? What is the most efficient, clear, and maintainable way across environments to consistently... Posted Mar 19 2008, 01:02 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Rewriting Links In Search Results (XSLT)

  Occasionly you may find that you want to build your own link translation functions directly into the search XSLT, essentially stating two parameters, the URL attributes to find, and the URL attributes to replace it to, adjusting the return on the SharePoint... Posted Jan 17 2008, 01:04 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Iterating Through All WebParts On Page

  One of my friends instant messaged me this morning and asked if it was feasible to use a method that would take an SPWeb object, and a URL as a parameter in order to return a collection of all the WebParts that coordinated with the URL. I haven't... Posted Jan 16 2008, 11:57 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Cloning SharePoint List Security (Freeware Security Tool)

  I have run up into a cloning issue on other occasions, quite recently actually, since the project I am currently slated for has a really complex scheme in order to control user access to our local SharePoint instance and its related objects, as such sometimes... Posted Jan 16 2008, 09:32 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development, SharePoint 2007 Security

• ClickOnce Makes SDC Not Suck So Bad

  Within federal computing systems, it is commonplace (and regulated) that a standard image be used when creating new machines that are going to be put on either NIPRNet (unclassified) and SIPRNet (classified) systems. While this is all fine and good, there... Posted Jan 01 2008, 11:15 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: General (Personal), SharePoint 2007 Development

• String.Compare for Performance And Readability

  Sometimes, I am just so used to doing things a certain way that I don't look for new ways of doing it. Fault of my programming personality I suppose, but String.Compare is one of those things that I use religiously now. Let's take a quick example... Posted Dec 10 2007, 02:09 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Where Are You Mr. System.Web.UI.Design?

  I was developing a custom web control that I planned on consuming in a WebPart, and I had some control properties that required a reference to an image. So I had: Select For Unformatted Code C#: [Editor(typeof(ImageUrlEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]... Posted Dec 07 2007, 10:09 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Get Friendly User Name For SPAuditEntry UserId

  I saw this post on the forums: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2270146&SiteID=17 Where the user states (paraphrased): I've been tasked with delivering a custom auditing solution in Sharepoint 2007 and become a little... Posted Dec 04 2007, 01:37 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Working With Application Config Files Remotely

  One of my friends that I was working with had a brief question regarding using a uniform application configuration file between projects. In aggregate, he was wondering if it was feasible to use the orthodox ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration in... Posted Nov 27 2007, 01:39 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Controlling SPField Display

  On occasion, you may encounter the requirement when creating fields programmatically that you want to hide the field display depending on what form type that ListFormWebPart is located on (i.e. whether you are in NewForm, EditForm, etc.). Through the... Posted Nov 19 2007, 08:52 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Why CommaDelimitedStringCollection Made Me Happy Today

  Another thing that I stumbled on today that has made me all sorts of happy is the CommaDelimitedStringCollection class, which basically let's you take a bunch of string values and work with them in a comma delimited format (so I guess the class name... Posted Nov 13 2007, 03:30 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Hello ManagementObjectEnumerator

  I totally didn't know that there was a ManagementObjectEnumerator class, but I found out there was today which made me all sorts of happy. What I was trying to do was to just display a list of the application pools of the current host machine's... Posted Nov 13 2007, 03:19 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Why If You Say Social Networking Like It’s New I Will Punch You

  Yes. I will. Then I will kick you. Hard. But I’m wiry so it might not be successful. I am tired of hearing about social networking like it’s this hot new topic, like all of a sudden the advances made in other sectors of computer science like... Posted Nov 02 2007, 10:59 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development, SharePoint 2007 Architecture

• Stupid SharePoint Delimiters

  I don't like SharePoint delimiters. They make me all sorts of mad. You really get into them when working with custom field types such as multi selection bound fields. They parse out as ";#". While that is all good for storage in SharePoint... Posted Nov 02 2007, 10:17 AM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development

• Custom Field Validation With SPFieldValidationException

  There was a post in the newsgroups wondering how when constructing a custom field type how one might build a small generic validation function in order to verify the harvested user input. There is provided the SPField.GetValidatedString method, which... Posted Oct 13 2007, 04:54 PM by SharePoint Shelter Filed under: SharePoint 2007 Development