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Yesterday I spent many hours trying to solve what should have been a simple issue - grouped views in a SPGridview. I was building a web part that used an embedded SPGridview - this was part of a template I created used by a TemplateBasedControl which...
At the Dev Connections conference, Doug Seven gave a great presentation on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). He started by discussing Agile development and the Agile Manifesto (see http://agilemanifesto.org/ ) and then...
Recently for a client engagement I used a Custom Field Iterator to control the edit and display form for a content type (more on this in an upcoming post). The requirement was for different fields to be made editable based on the state the list item was...
Last week I was working on a simple web part that would get come data from an MS SQL database and show in a grid. Per client's infrastructure requirements the connection to the sql server might only be done using integrated security, as sql users...
Recently I was working on a utility that would query a MOSS list for items with update_timestamp field within a certain range. I used CAML queries for the task and this is when I found out that for dates in CAML query filter the time part gets omitted...
I did a three day consulting gig 3 months ago where I installed and configured WSS 3.0, trained them on the basics of document libraries and lists, and converted a spreadsheet with multiple pages into a List so that their users could edit items simultaneously...
This week I worked on a two day introduction to SharePoint with a new client. The goal was to install and then give them a quick tour of the features with emphasis on Excel services. We completed the install on the first day and did a backup in preparation...
A client asked me today how to create a view filtered so that only items that where missing their Start Date, Due Date, or both. First, create a calculated column DatesMissing with the following formula: =NOT(AND(ISNUMBER([Start Date]),ISNUMBER([Due Date...
Recently I was building an issues list application for a client. The issues broke down in to several major initiatives, with many issues being a member of more than one initiative. What I wanted to do was a build an issues list and then have each issue...
For many of our clients we need to build custom site definitions. When building SharePoint solutions the terms site template, definition and to a lesser extent site portal are often used. Each of these allows the user to create a new site with a predefined...