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If your application needs to move a file, one way to do this is to use the .NET Framework System.IO.File.Move method, which moves the specified file from one file system location to another. Unfortunately, this method does not permit you to cancel the operation, nor does it provide progress information. So using this method to […]

I recently had the opportunity to attend the SharePoint Conference 2006 in Bellevue, Washington, a conference entirely dedicated to the next version of SharePoint, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It was held in May at the Meydenbauer Center in the downtown area and featured lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs Monday through Thursday, and there was […]

In Oscar Meszar’s recent weblog entry, Config Files in Office Add-ins, he describes the need to set up configuration information specific to a DLL. The "official" method of configuring a .NET application is to create a configuration file associated with the executable file (or the web application), but DLL-specific configuration is only possible with a […]

The SharePoint crawler uses an extensible architecture for indexing files of many different types. Using an administrative GUI, an administrator specifies the file extensions that are to be indexed when crawling a content source. Separately, the administrator ensures appropriate handlers are installed for the specified file types, which enable the files to be opened and […]

The essential challenge of creating MCMS navigation controls is that they must be completely dynamic – that is, they must render a correct navigational structure based on a posting’s position in an arbitrary channel hierarchy. "Arbitrary" is the key word in the precending sentence — using the Site Manager, the administrator can create whatever channel […]

I am setting up a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server virtual environment for a client and ran into a difficulty that I’d like to share. First, a brief description of the environment. There are three virtual machines running on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1. One is a domain controller, another is a database server […]

OK, so SharePoint web parts are not a brand new technology. There are lots of articles on the Web talking about web part development, web part deployment, web part troubleshooting, and so forth. So why write yet another article on this topic? I am writing this post because literally every developer I’ve encountered who has […]

The SharePoint Document Library is probably one of the most heavily used features of the product. The ability to customize a document library, create different views into it, and surface it on a WSS or SPS page make this feature incredibly useful, but the "surfacing" UI part of the functionality leave a bit to be […]

Recently we implemented Exchange 2007 Beta 2. This environment consists of two Exchange 2007 in mixed mode that includes an Exchange 2003 FE and BE. The two Exchange 2007 server roles are a FE (CAS and HTS) and a BE (Mailbox.) I implemented a SSL cert, RPC over HTTP (Outlook Anywhere) and ActiveSync. After all […]

I have a number of queries that I use to manage SharePoint an I wanted to share a few of the more useful ones. On one large portal, there is a proliferation of Sub-Areas which are managed by a number of different users in several different companies. Some of these areas use unique permissions extensively […]

There is an undocumented utility in the BINN folder of SQL that will extract binary fields to files (or vice versa). The user has to be a SQL account, not a windows account and has to have read permissions on the table. This can be very useful when you need to extract information from the […]

I’m writing a Microsoft Office Add-in in .NET 2.0. The add in is a .DLL of course. As you probably know, DLLs do not read their own config files. Instead they get the config from the executables that started the DLLs. What this means is that if we want to load values from a config […]