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Console application new SPSite throws a FileNotFoundException

Bas — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:09:00 GMT

A collegue of mine had the following problem: he wanted to write a console application to test some SharePoint code, but whenever he opened a new SPSite, the following File Not Found Exception was thrown: after being triggered about a possible problem...(read more)

SharePoint - Retrieving login name from SPUserField in a list

Bas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:41:00 GMT

For a long time I didnt know how to retrieve a login name from a SPUser field in a SharePoint List. When a user doesn't have a userProfile, he is stored in the SPUser field as <number>;#<Domain\loginName>, and when he does have a profile...(read more)