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• Source control and STSDEV utility

  Body: I'm using STSDEV 2008 (a utility from Ted Pattison's group) on a current project to generate the Visual Studio projects for SharePoint deliverables. If you haven't used it before, I'd recommend checking it out: it offers a pretty... Posted Jul 16 2008, 02:04 PM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• HOW-TO: Get MSDN library links to SharePoint classes when generating documentation using Sandcastle

  Body: I've blogged before about using Sandcastle to generate HTML help files from embedded comments in .NET -- and I still think it's a great approach. One of the great features is the ability to display the inheritance hierarchy for your classes... Posted Jun 20 2008, 08:12 AM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Exception when creating Publishing sites: "The last content type on a list cannot be deleted"

  Body: I ran into this exception on a project recently and was stumped. This error showed up whenever we attempted to create new sites using the MOSS publishing site definition, or using any other site definition that included the publishing features:... Posted Jun 09 2008, 11:34 PM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• HOW-TO: Remove embedded HTML in CQWP roll-ups

  Body: On a recent project, we were rolling up discussion board posts, which include a RichHTML field. The design called for the contents of the most recent posts to be summarized on the site's landing page using a Content Query Web Part (CQWP). The... Posted May 23 2008, 04:15 PM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Customizing List Forms

  Body: MSDN has a very good article to customize list forms in 2003. This post explains how to do the same in 2007. I won't be going through the steps for creating a custom list definition; there are many good articles for that. In 2007 SharePoint... Posted May 19 2008, 03:21 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• What's wrong with this code?

  Body: Let's play a little game I call "What's wrong with this code?" (I sometimes play the solitaire version the morning after I've done some late-night development...) Here's the quick scenario. I used Becky Bertram's blog... Posted Apr 17 2008, 12:43 PM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Cross-Web lookup columns

  Body: If you add a lookup column to a list/library from UI, it allows you only to pull information from a list within the same Web. However, if you need a lookup column to pull from a list in any web in the same site collection, you can do so through... Posted Mar 20 2008, 06:38 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Resource for Replicator Activity in SharePoint Workflow

  Body: I've been involved in a number of conversations about the replicator activity in SharePoint workflow and difficulty that people have in wiring it up. Fred Morrison left this post in the MSDN forums today that offers some great tips and specific... Posted Mar 13 2008, 12:54 PM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Where did my "Page Settings" go?

  Body: If you've spent some time working with MOSS 2007's publishing feature, you're probably aware that SharePoint has some special treatment around the "Pages" document library that gets created in each site for which publishing... Posted Mar 12 2008, 11:43 PM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• SharePoint Content Type Definitions and FieldRef Elements

  Body: I've been working on a project recently with a number of content type definitions. As you may know, there are a number of different reasons to create a content type within SharePoint: in some of those cases you may have common properties for... Posted Feb 06 2008, 01:30 AM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• SharePoint Development Tools: What Do You Use?

  Body: I have a problem with the tools I use for SharePoint development. Since most (all?) of my SharePoint development happens in a virtualized environment, I often have trouble remembering all of the little utilities and features that I use to make the... Posted Feb 01 2008, 01:07 AM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Web Part Design: Make Life Easy for Your Users

  Body: One of the powerful features provided by SharePoint is the encapsulation of functionality into web parts and the ability for users to manage the configuration of those web parts. And one of the biggest pains for users of SharePoint is the perpetual... Posted Jan 24 2008, 10:09 AM by Matt Morse: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Search Settings

  Body: Category: SharePoint Server Published: 12/23/2007 11:53 AM Categories: SharePoint Server Read More... Posted Dec 23 2007, 11:52 AM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Content By Query Web Part in Team Sites

  Body: The most talked about and powerful web part in MOSS is the Content by Query Web Part(CQWP). All the blogs/samples I've found on this web part used Publishing Site to demo it and the web part it self lives in Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing namespace... Posted Dec 13 2007, 10:06 AM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• What is the difference between SharePoint Services and SharePoint Server?

  This question came in an email from Shanghai this morning: “What is the difference between sharepoint server and sharepoint services?” Chris responded with the following: The main difference between the two are the capabilities and features... Posted Nov 26 2007, 03:13 PM by End User SharePoint Filed under: End User, General Observations, sharepoint services, sharepoint server

• Email Document Library item as Attachment

  Body: I recently worked on a requirement where the client wanted the functionality of sending an item in document library as an attachment. If you look at the OOTB drop down menu of a document library item, it will give you the option to E-mail the link... Posted Nov 22 2007, 01:50 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• The evaluation version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for this server has expired

  Body: Definitely not the message you want to see after paying a whole lot of bucks. This happened to a colleague of mine when he tried to setup "My Sites". In fact, same error message was thrown whenever he tried to use any feature of "MOSS... Posted Nov 22 2007, 01:39 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'ScopeId' of Webs table

  Body: My database attach for WSS migration failed with the message: "Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'ScopeId'", detailed message at the end. I was able to migrate the same environment two weeks ago successfully but it keeps... Posted Oct 01 2007, 06:59 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Comments in Upgrade file

  Body: I'm currently migrating a WSS 2.0 environment to MOSS. For my custom site definition I created the upgrade file and placed it in the 12\Config\Upgrade folder. I named the upgrade file as site definition name + "Upgrade" so that the... Posted Sep 20 2007, 10:11 AM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Difference between List.ItemCount and List.Items.Count

  Body: I noticed some strange things when I was working on deleting list items. There is no direct way of clearing out the list item collection. You have to loop through the collection and delete item by item. No big deal, all it takes is the below piece... Posted Aug 23 2007, 08:02 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Image Search in MOSS

  Body: I recently worked on a project where the client wanted to have two new tabs in the search center along with the default All Sites and People tabs: One to search only images and the other to search all office documents and PDFs. So, basically the... Posted Aug 22 2007, 11:19 PM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Getting files attached to an instance of SPListItem

  Body: I was doing something with file attachments on custom lists in SharePoint recently, and the solution to iterating through the attachments and retrieving the binary file information wasn't readily obvious to me. For example, adding new attachments... Posted Jul 05 2007, 04:57 PM by Matt's Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Querying WSS Lookup Columns with CAML

  Body: I spent way too long yesterday trying to get a CAML query that would allow me to query on a lookup field and figured I'd share. <rant> First, one thing I find very annoying about SharePoint is that if you have an invalid query, the call... Posted Jun 15 2007, 05:25 AM by Matt's Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• Iterate through all Sites(SPWebs) under a Farm

  Body: The below piece of code will iterate through all Sites(SPWebs) across all web applications under a Farm. Here it goes.. //Object representing the local server farm SPFarm farm = SPFarm .Local; foreach ( SPService service in farm.Services) { if Read... Posted Jun 06 2007, 09:17 AM by Raja Ayyapusetty: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server

• XSL to convert DataSet to HTML table

  Body: I was recently creating a web part for a WSS installation that needed to connect to a backend data store, run a query based on the user's context in SharePoint, then display the results in the UI. It was an interesting situation, as I didn't... Posted Jun 06 2007, 09:07 AM by Matt's Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint server