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One of my developer colleagues was working on a project this week and ran into a timeout problem while working on building some crazy web part. His web part was fine, but "suddenly" an unrelated site became very slow and frequently timed out...
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We needed to invoke the "CreateSubscription" method on an SSRS web service that is hosted in an FBA managed MOSS environment from a custom web part. We kept getting variations of: 401: Not authorized Object Moved The "object moved"...
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Body: This is potentially a much bigger question, but I'll just address the narrow section of code migration from a hardware/software level, what I would recommend is that each developer have their own Virtual Machine which is a Windows Server with...
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Body: Once I remember reading about a data center that altered the air conditioning level of the room occupied by the system admins, and made the room's "weather" more turbulent when a server started reporting an error. The result was that...
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Body: So I got a MOSS VM from a class a while ago, and I've been using it for a while - for a variety of projects, any time it wasn't practical to take the time to build a development environment from scratch. It was built using an evaluation...
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Body: Anytime I'm developing something in SharePoint, I'll get to a point where I load a SharePoint page, and it says "An unknown error has occurred." or "An unexpected error has occurred.". There are two things you can do...
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Body: I've got two development environments that I am using for my current project, both Virtual Machines. One is a Windows 2003 server with SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, and the other is a Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2005 that will have...
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I tried searching for a little snippet code that would show how I can create a new SPWeb in a site collection. I didn't find it as quickly or easily as I expected so I thought I'd slap together a little entry on the subject. This code creates...
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When working with event receivers and other code that references SharePoint list items via the object model, I often make mistakes that generate this error at runtime: Error loading and running event receiver Conchango.xyzzyEventReceiver in xyzzy, Version...
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In order to work around a KPI problem I wrote about here , I did some testing and discovered that KPI's work against folders with meta data in the same way that they work against documents or list items. I proved it out by creating a new content type...
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I hate to admit it, but I struggled with this one all day. My event receiver needs to update a field of its parent folder. This little bit shows how to do it: private void UpdateParentFolder( SPItemEventProperties properties) { SPFolder thisItemFolder...
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I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with this. However, I haven't noticed anyone publish a trick like this since I started paying close attention to the community last July. So, I thought I'd post it this quick and easy debug...
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This past week I was implementing an "evolving" solution for a client that uses BDC and SPQuery and ran into some difficulty using SPQuery against a document library containing folders. Bottom line: assign "recursive" to the view attribute...
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We have implemented a technical solution where users upload documents to a document library. An event receiver creates a directory and moves the file to that directory (using a technique similar to what I wrote about here ). We've successfully navigated...
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Body: I'm going to the 2008 Office Developer's Conference! I'm looking forward to the sessions about SharePoint of course and meeting the SharePoint MVPs that are presenting them. I'm also looking forward to meeting two of my coworkers...
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I was working on a feature last week that would add some event receivers to a specific list instance. ( I blogged a bit about that list receiver here ). Using the command line, I could install the feature with no error (but see below for the hidden error...
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I have a client requirement to change the name of files uploaded to a specific document library to conform with a particular naming convention. The API does not provide a "rename()" method. Instead, we use "MoveTo(...)" . Here is a...
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Body: Way back when the first Web browser, Mosaic, was just being born at NCSA at the University of Illinois, I was in college as well, and was running Linux. I was into Unix Shell scripting – csh, ksh, zsh, etc. Once I graduated, I switched to Windows...
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Body: Once again, Ted Pattison's writings provided me some critical guidance just when I needed it. I've been developing a SharePoint Application Pages application and have run into two things that Ted has helped me with. Early on in the project...
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I have a column name in a content type named "Real Estate Location". That column is of type "lookup". I have modified <CommonViewFields> and ItemStyle.xsl to show the column. A simple <xsl:value-of select=...> returns back...
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I was trying to get a content query web part to display a due date from a task and because the screen label is "Due Date", I assumed that the column name to use in <CommonViewFields> is "Due_x0020_Date". Wrong! The real column...
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I was working with ItemStyle.xsl to customize the look of a Content Query Web Part and right about lunch time, I made a breaking change to the xsl. I didn't realize it, but this had far reaching effects throughout the site collection. I went off to...
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Overview and Objective Out of the box, MOSS' Content Query Web Part (CQWP) displays its results in a list format, similar to search results. It is also possible to display the results in a grid format (i.e. HTML table format). Grid formats are better...
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Several times a week, if not daily, forum users describe a requirement that would normally be met via cascading drop-downs. For example, I have two drop-down controls: List of U.S. states List of U.S. cities. As responsible UI providers, we want it to...
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Overview: This blog entry describes how to create a bar graph in SharePoint. This works in both WSS and MOSS environments as it only depends upon the data view web part. The overall approach is as follows: Create a list or document library that contains...
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