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I wanted to share an unexpected Share Point behavior that could be dangerous if you don’t know about it. It could potentially be useful if you are aware of it (although one must be very careful using it). When working with SPLIstItem, if you set a column it to null in SPLIstItem, the in-memory column […]

I had that sinking feeling today, when I fired up my laptop and it sat on a black screen for longer than normal. Then the ominous mystery dialog appeared: Blurry ’cause it’s a cell-phone snap . . . "Logon process failed to create the security options dialog" Failure: Security Options Uh-Oh Hmm. What could have […]

I have been playing with ADO.NET Data Services framework recently in its preview state and am excited about this new upcoming technology with what it has to offer! This new framework really facilitates the surfacing of server side data. Its appealing aspect resides in the fact that it is reaching for server side resources using […]

If you’ve ever had to upgrade an IIS site from using an internal or self-signed SSL certificate to using one created through a trusted Certificate Authority, you know about the down-time window. That is, when you create a new certificate signing request through IIS, it overwrites your existing SSL information within the metabase, leaving your […]

It seems that SharePoint Designer performs poorly when dealing with anything other than really basic workflows. From what I have noticed, it seems that the time to open the workflow gets exponentially longer with the number of activities present in a workflow. The same can be said with editing those activities, in fact I often […]

One of the best places to add value to an organization is in the way contacts with customers or partners is handled. For many – this is the call center / contact center. This is how sales are made, support tickets are resolved, new customers are discovered, current customers are retained. Up until now, MS […]

In this blog I will show you how to manipulate SharePoint objects with LINQ. In my personal opinion, LINQ makes code less verbose, hence makes code easier to read and understand. LINQ also makes SharePoint application development fun. LINQ is general to Microsoft.NET framework and neither LINQ nor SharePoint are dependent on each other. Obviously […]

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) has two content type groups defined for publishing pages: 1. Page Layout Content Types 2. Publishing Content Types Figure 1: Publishing Content Types in MOSS All content types in “Page Layout Content Types” group derive (inherit) from “Page” content type. Both SharePoint Designer (SPD) and browser interface of MOSS […]

When it comes to tweaking the look and feel of SharePoint web parts, one of the best ways is through the use of XSL Transformations. Numerous out-of-the-box web parts can be completely customized through XSLT, including all lists and document libraries. In my case, I was recently configuring a Content Query Web Part when I […]

While mocking up some quick wireframes, I recently jumped into SharePoint Designer to customize ItemStyle.xsl. After checking out my file and making updates to the template, I saved it and proceeded to "Check In". What I was greeted with was a surprising error message: "Cannot perform this operation. The file is no longer checked out […]

Earlier this year, I decided to try running Windows Home Server to organize my personal network. Between my wife and me, we have six machines: four laptops, a Media Center, and one desktop. Keeping them backed up was always a concern and I had trouble finding files strewn about multiple disks. Centralized backup (with single […]

In some instances, the OR logic in fulltextsqlquery works as an AND which could be very confusing when trying to build queries. For example, let’s say you have two managed properties that are both mapped to two different crawled properties. Now if you execute a query and search for a term that is available in […]