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When you want to implement a custom stsadm for SharePoint, all you realy have to do is implement the Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin.ISPStsadmCommand interface. Because I develop on a machine with no SharePoint installed, I (only) copy the assemblies I need to develop locally. For the stsadm command I...
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This year I visited the Dutch Microsoft DevDays 2008 event. It's an event for Microsoft developers which targets several developer related subjects. I focused on SharePoint, Silverlight and Visual Studio Team System, and have seen interesting presentations on these subjects. If you haven't been...
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I published earlier about K2 Blackpoint. Well tomorrrow there will be a webcast on K2 Blackpoint which you are are to join. Here are the details: June 19th meeting from 6pm – 7pm Central Time. (GMT -06) Subject: blackpoint Webcast Start Time: Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 4:00 PM PDT End Time: Thursday...
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While writing a custom stsadm command for SharePoint (more on that in a future post) and having to do something based on the command the user typed in, I used ToLower( CultureInfo.InvariantCulture ) on the command string to be able to check without the hassle of differences in casing. When I ran code...
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When asked about the high points of his career at Microsoft, Bill Gates answered Windows 95 and Sharepoint Portal Server(MOSS). We all know that MOSS is selling massive! The MOSS platform has some workflow features built into the product, but they are somewhat limited. On the otherhand K2 has Blackpearl...
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After developing a custom Web Service to be hosted in SharePoint (based on this HowTo article on MSDN ) and deploying it on a testing environment, I got some entries in the EventLog over there, stating: " Unable to connect publishing custom string handler for output caching. IIS Instance Id is 'xxxxxxxxx'...
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It's here: the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit. This first release contains two tools, both supported on WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007. Batch Site Manager From the "Move, Lock, and Delete Site Collections" page on Applications Management you can schedule bulk operations...
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A week ago I had a nice page that was hosted in SharePoint and, among others, contained an updatepanel with a dropdownlist in it. Everything worked, and all was well. Because our testers had found some issues we had delivered two newer versions to our development environment. In the last version they...
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As I said earlier , we didn't test our solution to using the ModalPopupExtender in SharePoint in all situations. Today we made a start to do so. To indicate our successrate: we now use window.showModalDialog with some extra pages... Lets go through some of the problems we encountered. Placing an...
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Getting the ModalPopupExtender from the Ajax Control Toolkit to work (decently) in SharePoint was not exactly a walk in the park. With a default SharePoint installation, the modal popup is partly positioned 'outside' of the page (you only see the bottom right part of the popup in the top left...
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The RootFolder attribute on the Batch element controls the folder of the item. This can be used to access a sub-folder. The structure is Lists/ list/folder where folder is optional. For example, if the list being updated is Contacts and there are two sub-folders Work and Personal. To update an item in...
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In my schema file, I have a choice element that only contains a single child element. For example: The above example is actually a crude schema of the where clause of a Sharepoint call to Lists.asmx where in the case I have only 1 item, I want to send a where clause of <Where> <Eq> <FieldRef...
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When updating (new and update) list items to the Lists.asmx sharepoint service, I received the following error: 0x81020014 One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields. The resolution of the error was actually the opposite of the helpful suggestion...
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Stefan Goßner posted a great series of posts about the Content Migration API (formerly known as PRIME) for SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007). In just 5 post he explains everything about this API and where SharePoint uses it. It's an excellent start point for many SharePoint administrators and developers...
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Yes, another newbie to Sharepoint post; but it may help the others out there who are working through labs and exercises and not getting the "expected" results. If after you have deployed your new feature (e.g., workflow, web part, etc) you do not have it listed as an available content type...