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Links (11/29/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 29, 2007

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Links (11/28/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 28, 2007

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Links (11/27/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 27, 2007

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Links (11/25/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 25, 2007

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Links (11/22/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 22, 2007

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Links (11/20/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 20, 2007

  1. Re-using SharePoint Designer workflows in multiple lists
  2. Two New Books on Performance Point Server
  3. How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007
  4. MOSS 2007 - CSS Crackers - CSS is rendered in alphabetical order
  5. Embed a Video into a SharePoint Page
  6. Move Site Collections in a Single Bound
  7. Deleting Content Sources and effects
  8. Deleting / Purging / Removing Orphaned Sites or Site Collections
  9. Modify the inherited properties of a field
  10. SPSiteDataQuery limited to 10 document libraries work around
  11. Still learning… (aka. SPD or not to SPD)
  12. Free download: SLP - InfoPath extension for custom lookup pages
  13. Controlling SPField Display
  14. PlaceHolderPageTitle is the root of all evil
  15. Branding Intranets with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
  16. SharePoint, DOCTYPE, and Master Pages
  17. Quick Guide on how to install Reporting Services on its own server/cluster in SharePoint Integration Mode without using Kerberos
  18. Writing to the SharePoint Trace Log in your code
  19. Reporting Services Support for Forms Authentication in SharePoint Integration Mode
  20. How to Connect Filters to Web Parts
  21. SharePoint and Storage
  22. Content Deployment does not fix links (at import) when the source has been deployed with features
  23. Uploading images to a Wiki
  24. Setting a Custom Edit Form for a Content Type
  25. Cannot get the list schema column property from the SharePoint list” — description/work-arounds
  26. SharePoint Visio Stencils

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Links (11/18/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 18, 2007

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Links (11/15/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 15, 2007

  1. **** Code Callout Features: How to make automated modifications to sites after they have been deployed
  2. Sharepoint Application pool settings: update
  3. An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator)
  4. When a Feature Isn’t the Same Thing as a feature
  5. Get a list of site groups - against CommunityUserDataSet
  6. Add user to a SharePoint Group ( Web Service )
  7. How to Remove Unwanted Top Sites
  8. Convert template title to internal name
  9. Expanding the Global Navigation in SharePoint
  10. Some comments on common Variation problems
  11. Deciding to use SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Services (Part 1)
  12. Deciding to use Sharepoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Services (Part 2)
  13. BDC Meta Man new release
  14. An Introduction to Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Data Views
  15. Visio SharePoint Stencils
  16. SharePointPedia.com - SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint and SharePoint related products and technologies. It’s a social computing application built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
  17. Office Space: Event handling in SharePoint 2007
  18. Lesson Learned While Customizing Newform.aspx
  19. What is a “Current View” and why can’t I find it anywhere?
  20. Upload a File to a SharePoint Document Library - Part II
  21. Overriding core.css in MOSS 2007
  22. What is the difference between a file server and SharePoint?
  23. How delete webparts from a page using the browser (spcontnt.aspx)
  24. What is SharePoint? – new screencast created with the answer
  25. Promote and recommend SharePoint content
  26. Information Rights Management in MOSS
  27. Announcing the SharePoint Toolbox shared source project on CodePlex along with CopyTimer and SPAlertPipeline
  28. Best Practice : Using disposable objects in SharePoint
  29. Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
  30. Creating Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically
  31. Getting Search Crawl Details from the DB

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Telerik Controls in a Web Part

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 15, 2007

My client had a requirement to display a tab strip with 4 tabs in it. On each tab they wanted a way to enter some simple HTML text. Great, sounds easy enough. I have some experience with Telerik’s fine ASP.NET controls so I quickly put something together. The client wanted the control to look a certain way. Lucky for me, it was close enough to Telerik’s standard ClassicBlue theme.

After going through the regiment of creating a webpart file, a feature, and a solution package, after adding my web part to the a page, the theme did not come through. The theme was included in the page source but was defined as the following:

/RadControls/Tabstrip/Skins/ClassBlue/styles.css

Easy enough, I copied the source path to my virtual directory, iisreset, refreshed the page, and the theme came through. However, this is where the problems starting occurring. First, if I entered site anonymously, I would either get prompted for a user name and password on any page where the tabstrip web part was placed (very confusing at first) or worse I would receive an 403 error. Second, I had a difficult time figuring out how to include this theme in a WSP file so I could deploy it.

The first issue was simple enough to resolve. I opened Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the RadControls folder, selected properties - Security - and added the anonymous user (servername/iurs_servername). After an iisreset, all was well. This is not the most elegant solution though. I would run into the same issues if I forget to add the security (unfortunately ran into this issue yesterday at the client site - most embarrassing). Also, the quick fix doesn’t doesn’t solve my deploy issue. Back to the drawing board.

Solution: After reviewing the page source, I soon realized I should be able to specify my own path to the skin. Telerik controls have a SkinsPath. I assigned the following path:

_tabstrip .SkinsPath = “/_layouts/images/rsc/RadControls/TabStrip/Skins”

Once I included the proper theme files in my WSP, everything worked properly. This solved both issues. I’m a happy camper!

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Links (11/13/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 13, 2007

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Links (11/11/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 11, 2007

  1. Silverlight and Popfly in a SharePoint-based collaborative intranet solution?
  2. So what’s the good reason you can’t access sites in another site collection in SPD 2007’s Data View?
  3. An Introduction to Conditional Formatting
  4. A New Upgrade Paper
  5. Very useful SharePoint 2007 (and WSS 3.0) Utilities from SharePoint Solutions Software
  6. Provisioning engines for SharePoint 2007
  7. Reporting Services SP 2 - MOSS / WSS 3.0 Integration
  8. Querying SharePoint for content - using SPSiteDataQuery and CrossListQueryInfo
  9. WSS FAQ additions and changes LXXIX - 4th - 10th November 2007
  10. Re-Skin Your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site in Less than a Minute
  11. Want a simple web page listing SharePoint Documents without any navigation?
  12. SPD custom workflow actions — string manipulation enhancements
  13. Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Oct07 Update)
  14. Video: Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services in Word 2007
  15. Organizing and navigating your SharePoint site
  16. SharePoint Hacks
  17. Introducing the MSIT/MMS/BOSD SharePoint Blog - SharePoint team in MSIT has started blogging
  18. How to Change SharePoint Site URL
  19. Change a SharePoint site’s URL
  20. Site definitions vs. Site templates
  21. Windows MSN Live Instant Messenger (or whatever it’s called) in a SharePoint web part
  22. Want InfoPath forms with custom lookup dialogs?
  23. Reporting Services architecture diagram
  24. Web Part Connections in WSS 3.0 (Part 4)
  25. Create a WebCreated event of your own in onet.xml
  26. MOSS Deployment Scenarios 1 of 4 - Manifest.xml
  27. Setting item level security in an eventhandler
  28. Web Usage Reporting Tools

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Links (11/8/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 8, 2007

  1. **** Is the hotfix or service pack going to break my SharePoint pages or deployment? - wise advice
  2. **** Extending SharePoint’s stsadm command
  3. How to Extend the Advanced Search WebPart
  4. Details and manual monitoring of the Content DBs
  5. Using OOB Workflows to Provision Sites
  6. How to Create a Search Scope
  7. SharePoint Connections 2007 Code Samples and Session Materials - dang, guess I need a new name for my Object Model application!
  8. Trial Period [Evaluation Period] for this product has expired
  9. Self Service Site Creation
  10. PlugIt: Extend InfoPath browser form with custom lookup dialogs
  11. Microsoft’s Search Server 2008…very cunning plan
  12. Scripting STSADM commands
  13. SharePoint lists in Outlook 2007 are awesome
  14. Returning approved SharePoint list items from a console application
  15. Quick and easy: Embed a hyperlink into data view web part XSLT
  16. Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 1 - Preparing the AD for Kerberos
  17. Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 2 - Preparing the MOSS server
  18. Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 3 - Create and test an Excel sheet
  19. Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services - Overview and updates
  20. Use dynamically created InfoPath form instance to pre-fill form
  21. How to get the most out of SharePoint 2007 using SharePoint Designer 2007
  22. Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) Crashes when Selecting Edit With SharePoint Designer
  23. Wildcards? We’re not playing poker!
  24. Apply a Theme to all sub sites in SharePoint 2007
  25. Codeplex Project that Adds Custom Actions to SPD
  26. TechEd Session on performance for Internet facing web sites in SharePoint 2007
  27. Conferencing Documents Stored in a Disparate Repository
  28. Quick and Simple: Enable SharePoint Designer workflow to update an InfoPath form
  29. Programmatically uploading multiple files to Custom sharepoint list in 2007
  30. Addendum to the SharePoint Deployment Daylight Savings patch issue

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Links (11/6/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 6, 2007

  1. Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express
  2. How to Fix the Calendar View Expand All/Collapse All Error
  3. Hosting UserControls inside of webparts
  4. Overview of all the WSS/MOSS KB’s
  5. SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) Custom BDC Web Part Example
  6. Free Series of SharePoint Workflow How-to Videos
  7. Mapping a drive to a SharePoint document library
  8. Tips and Tricks: Opening a Closed Web Part to Properly Delete a Web Part - I thought it was easier to use ?contents=1
  9. Architecture of MOSS Web Application Separation
  10. Comprehensive list of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Resources
  11. SPSecurityTrimmedControl: Conditionally display contents by security
  12. SharePoint Designer Help Articles
  13. Helpful Tips for SharePoint Developers - #1: Warmup.bat file
  14. Important SharePoint 2007 security updates (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-059)
  15. Create a New Page Layout in SharePoint 2007 - Feature-Based
  16. Excluding A Site from MOSS Enterprise Search While Maintaining Search Within the Site
  17. SharePoint: Let PSConfig and STSADM setup your MOSS
  18. Provide Status Updates for Long Running Operation Jobs
  19. Windows SharePoint Services Search – No Results and Errors
  20. Announcing SharePointPedia — community driven content recommendations and requests!
  21. MOSS/SharePoint Video training
  22. Dynamically create static Excel files for Excel Service
  23. SharePoint 2007 and cross site groups? - pertaining to beta exam 70-541
  24. Document templates and SharePoint 2007 content types
  25. SharePoint 2007 Filter webparts - using the Page Field Filter webpart on a Lookup field
  26. SharePoint field objects - classname, name and types
  27. Creating custom editor parts for a SharePoint webpart
  28. ASP.Net 2.0 Navigation and SharePoint v3

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Links (11/4/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 4, 2007

  1. **** How To: Hide the View All Site Content link in SharePoint
  2. Groove and SharePoint work together
  3. SharePoint Terms: Ghosted, Unghosted and Reghosted
  4. The best way to explain SharePoint Content Types
  5. WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXVIII - 28th October - 3rd November 2007
  6. Lesson learned when create list instance in SharePoint solution
  7. Scripted Installation for all site templates - Installing fab 40 using a script, is one of the most popular posts here. However, this installation guide covered wsp only and not stp. So here is the scripted installation guide for site template files.
  8. How do I? – Solve the “Cannot use ‘partitionResolver’ unless the mode is ‘StateServer’ or ‘SQLServer’” error
  9. SharePoint Backup and Restore
  10. SharePointPedia.com goes Live
  11. Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 3
  12. Stupid SharePoint Delimiters
  13. Resources for geekSpeak: LINQ to SharePoint with Bart De Smet
  14. Implementing a multi-lingual internet site based on MOSS2007
  15. SharePoint Indexing Limited by 64 kB ACL Limit
  16. MenuItem for Outlook ContextMenu
  17. Update: SharePoint 2007 theme generator
  18. The database schema is too old to perform this operation in this SharePoint cluster, please upgrade the database and try again. Whats up with DST and SharePoint??
  19. Fixing ‘Error: Access Denied’ error on creating a new page in MOSS
  20. Screencasts demonstrating how to create a simple Document Management Center (DMC)
  21. SharePointPlan.com - Mark Schneider, has setup his own blog that focuses on organizational change, project planning, requirements management and governance planning for SharePoint implementations.
  22. How To: Modify the web.config file in SharePoint using SPWebConfigModification
  23. SharePoint Workflow Resources

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Links (11/1/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 1, 2007

  1. **** 2 SharePoint projects on Codeplex - check out Leon’s code!
  2. **** Applying a SharePoint Custom Master Page Globally
  3. CAML or LINQ, which would you prefer?
  4. CSS causes JavaScript error while moving Web Parts in edit mode
  5. Tips and Tricks: Deleting a site that has subsites (yes, you can, despite what the error message says)
  6. Haunted by deleted documents? - To make sure your documents are really gone, you need to delete in two places.
  7. Another simple code snippet - using the user field
  8. SharePoint Designer Workflows: How to Tell Which Fields Have Changed
  9. SharePoint Portal administration service was not starting
  10. Using named anchors in SharePoint Wiki pages
  11. SharePoint Learning Kit: Default Alternate Access Mapping
  12. BizTalk 2006 R2 Posters available
  13. How everyone should test their BizTalk based solutions presentation links
  14. Customizing the application.master in SharePoint 2007 - Revisited
  15. The Long Tail of Content and SharePoint Technology
  16. SharePoint on another machine than TFS
  17. Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 2
  18. Step-By-Step Tutorial on Creating Workflows for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
  19. Basic Workflow: Sending an e-mail when a column is populated
  20. E-mailing a Document from a SharePoint Document Library
  21. KB 944105: How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
  22. Email-Enabled Lists in SharePoint
  23. Difference between SharePoint and AD Groups
  24. BDC Mapper Web Part released
  25. How to Video: (Programmatically Escalating an Overdue Task) Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS 2007)
  26. SharePoint and Web 2.0, Social Networking, etc.
  27. Sharepoint Site Usage Report won’t update
  28. The Importance of MetaData in SharePoint
  29. Master pages/page layouts deployed as Feature not updating

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