Raja Ayyapusetty

I noticed some strange things when I was working on deleting list items. There is no direct way of clearing out the list item collection. You have to loop through the collection and delete item by item. No big deal, all it takes is the below piece of code: //Delete List items for (int i […]

I recently worked on a project where the client wanted to have two new tabs in the search center along with the default All Sites and People tabs: One to search only images and the other to search all office documents and PDFs. So, basically the requirement is to filter results by their file type. […]

The below piece of code will iterate through all Sites(SPWebs) across all web applications under a Farm. Here it goes.. //Object representing the local server farm SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local; foreach (SPService service in farm.Services) { if (service.GetType().ToString() == "Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService") { foreach (SPWebApplication webApp in ((SPWebService)service).WebApplications) { foreach (SPSite site in webApp.Sites) { SPWeb rootWeb […]

If you are using the "Windows Aero" color scheme in Vista, which is the default color scheme, Windows seems to have problems rendering the Visual Studio UI. I’ve noticed this problem when you run the solution and come back to Visual Studio after closing the solution. Vista can’t paint the portions of the screen occupied […]

When you are not happy with your customizations to a site, WSS and MOSS provides an option of reverting back your site to the original site definition version. The option is called "Reset Page to Site Definition Version". This is located at Site Settings -> Reset to Site Definition. Luckily, there are two levels for […]