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In Part 1, the idea of converting your strongly typed collections to Generics was introduced. Backward compatibility and existing client support was maintained. However once a level of acceptance has been maintained for the new base class and the reduced...
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Last month Andrew Gelina (Syrinx's CEO) and myself had a nice conversation with Gayle Rodcay of Windows IT Pro magazine. She asked a lot of great questions about the top features/functionality we have seen requested in the SharePoint space. Her write...
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I just wanted to pass along a recent article I wrote for Redmond Channel Partner magazine for the May issue. They wanted the article written to help the community with the common problem many users of SharePoint are faced with: What do I do with it? How...
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I got back home to Boston after having a great week at Tech-Ed. It really was a good show. I met a lot of new people as well as catch up with some friends in the industry. There really was a lot of great content and dialogue around SharePoint to help...
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Day two was better than the first day in terms of session content and interest, at least from my perspective. I took pictures, but decided it was better to get the post up than get the pictures ready. XMOL / XAML John Holliday gave an in-depth coding...
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Everyone knows how painful it is to try reaching a MOSS page after an IIS reset or a server reboot; what happens is ASP.NET performing page and resource compilation and caching. You can help your users save frustration by simply touching every MOSS web...
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I just wanted to do a quick write-up from day one at Tech-Ed 2008 Developer in Orlando Florida. The opening Keynote address by Bill Gates was very good. He touched upon his upcoming departure about Microsoft, but not without also leaving us with a nice...
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In the first part of the series we've looked at how to create content sources to be crawled. In addition to that, you can control the behavior of the crawler on the content sources by setting exclusion and inclusion rules on the content. Those rules...
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Many enterprise applications make use of strongly typed collections in their solution. Although they require more development time, the advantages they provide can outweigh the cost of the extra development time. Some of the advantages include compile...
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A comment I frequently hear is: SharePoint tabs don't always highlight properly. As it turns out, if you are in the habit of doing things a certain way, they always work. First, make sure you are turning on "Show Pages" and/or "Show...
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I'm going to write a bit about a problem I ran into when I wrote a bulk upload application for one of my SharePoint clients. I found that when I was importing a document and applying a Content Type to it I needed to find the Lookup list values for...
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In this part of the series you will learn how to set up Search Scopes . Search scopes allow to create specially defined groupings of searchable content, which can be chosen by users when executing a search. Go to the Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration...
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In this installation of my blog series I'll cover creating integrated InterfaceObject, DataAccess and ApplicationObject (BusinessObject) classes based on the definition file that use these newly created stored procedures and provide an API to the...
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In this installation of my blog series I'll cover defining, creating and persisting SQL scripts for stored procedures based on our CodeGeneratorPropertyList using SQL Server Management Objects (SMO). As I stated at the end of my last post, this takes...
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Have you ever wanted to modify the contents of an Alert Email from SharePoint 2007. We had a requirement recently, from a client, to modify the contents of alert emails in a very specific way. They wanted to change not the layout but the contents, and...