Matthew Morse

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 have any developer access to the backend data store, nor […]

“InfoPath is my friend. InfoPath is my friend. InfoPath is my friend.” I had to chant that to myself a few times before I started to believe it. Coming from a custom development background, my initial inclination with a web form is to simply bang out a quick ASPX page. But I’m starting to appreciate […]

I ran into a fun problem recently that ended up being related to conflicting versions of OFfice. The symptom was that Internet Explorer (version 6.0; I didn’t test with 7) would intermittently crash when viewing WSS sites. There didn’t seem to be a reason behind what activity was being performed (e.g. viewing lists, web part […]

IntroductionI ran into a real challenge in creating my first state machine workflow for MOSS, so I thought I’d share a quick demo (OK, not that quick: it is a workflow, after all) and hopefully save you some time. This will actually be a short series of posts covering the following topics: Concepts and planning […]

One of the cool new features of WSS 3.0 is item-level permissions, and a variation of that capability is carried forward in the "only their own" security setting. In most WSS lists, it’s possible to set the list security so that users have access to "only their own" items: each individual may add items to […]

I ran into a funny issue in creating a custom theme for WSS. After following the steps to create and deploy a custom theme, I was getting an error message in SharePoint when I tried to apply the theme to any site. The error was: Cannot open "[THEME NAME]": no such file or folder." I […]

I got this error message this morning after closing LiveMeeting running on Vista. I think it speaks for itself. Classic.

Heather Solomon always has great SharePoint content on her blog, but her SharePoint CSS reference guide is a must-have for anyone who has spent hours clicking with the IE Developer Toolbar and surfing through CORE.css.

I’ve been doing some SharePoint UI customization work recently, and if you’ve ever done any of that, you know how much fun it is to work with some gigantic CSS files. I was talking to Dave last week and lamenting that the CSS specification doesn’t include support for the specification of constants. Here’s the problem […]

I was working on a task recently that required some documentation, and I looked for an old friend, NDoc, which I had used in the past — but only with .NET 1.x projects, apparently. As it turns out, I’m a couple of months behind the times, and the primary developer is not going to pursue […]

UPDATE 11/20/2007 If you’re looking for options to authenticate against ADAM and you don’t have a MOSS license, see this post on that topic. Introduction Note: If all you care about is the technical detail of how to set it up, skip this section. 🙂 One of the powerful new features of Windows SharePoint Services […]