Comments for Steve Pietrek - Everything SharePoint

Comment on Links (9/5/2007) by Stephen Kaye

Stephen Kaye — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:52:56 +0000

I’ve written a blog about how to customise the application.master to change layout pages without actually altering the standard application.master file.

http://stephenkaye.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-customise-applicationmaster-file.html

Comment on Debugging Assemblies Located in the GAC by ano

ano — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:12:09 +0000

In my case (dll tarfeting .NET 3.5) step 2 was:

Select Start - Run and type in %SYSTEMROOT%\Assembly\GAC_MSIL

Comment on Debugging Assemblies Located in the GAC by Doug Ware

Doug Ware — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:35:11 +0000

Hi Steve,
I love your blog. Thanks for the great content and links!
You don’t need to copy the pdb files to debug the GAC. Please have a look at my post on this here: http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=23

Comment on Customize application.master by Joel Jalbert

Joel Jalbert — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:12:03 +0000

I have code samples for you!


namespace CustomDesign

{

    public class CustomPageInit : IHttpModule

    {

        public void Init(HttpApplication context)

        {

            context.PreRequestHandlerExecute += new EventHandler(context_PreRequestHandlerExecute);

        }
        void context_PreRequestHandlerExecute(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            HttpApplication httpApp = sender as HttpApplication;
            if (httpApp != null)

            {

                Page page = httpApp.Context.CurrentHandler as Page;
                if (page != null)

                {

                    page.PreInit += new EventHandler(page_PreInit);

                }

            }

        }
        void page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            Page page = sender as Page;
            if (page.MasterPageFile != null)

            {

                if (page.MasterPageFile.ToLower().Contains("application.master")) {
                    SPWeb objWeb = SPContext.Current.Web;
                    if (objWeb.MasterUrl.Contains("default.custom.master"))

                    {

                        objWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

                        objWeb.Update();

                        string strTmp = page.MasterPageFile.ToLower().Replace("application.master", "application.custom.master");

                        page.MasterPageFile = strTmp;

                    }

                }

            }

        }

public void Dispose() { } } }

In the web.config, append that line into the httpmodule section

Comment on Links (8/30/2007) by Harlan

Harlan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:07:47 +0000

I saw your post about the SPMigration tool, which is great, but I wanted something a biteasier to use and just for Exchange Public Folders and SharePoint.

I recently hired a developer to build a tool that that migrates Exchange public folder data to SharePoint. It is a .Net application, a self contained exe, and only needs to run on workstation with Outlook. You just point to an exchange server and a sharepoint server and click a migrate button. It is now complete and I would like to share the code with others so that it can be refined and customized as needed.

Your blog looks to be a good source to get communications like this out. I uploaded it to http://www.codeplex.com/pfmigration. Let me know if you find the tool valuable to post something about it

Thanks in advance!
Harlan

Comment on Quick Access to STSADM Command by Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:11:28 +0000

An alternative to modifying the PATH for your current Environment.

Start, Run, “.”, OK
This should open your %userprofile% folder.
New Shortcut, (File Menu, or the context menu)
Path: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
Name: spcmd

Open the properties of your newly created shortcut, change ’start in’ to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin “

Comment on Site and File Naming - Invalid Characters by Oskar Austegard

Oskar Austegard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:46:20 +0000

In addition the following are not allowed in file names:
# multiple dots in a row
# dots at the end of a file name
# spaces at the beginning or end of a file name (will be trimmed)

Meanwhile
` @ $ ^ ( ) - + = ; [ ] ‘ . ,.txt
is a VALID file name…

Comment on Edit in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Error by Wes Smith

Wes Smith — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:23:42 +0000

Your solution worked for me. Thanks - Wes

Comment on Links (8/23/2007) by Oskar Austegard

Oskar Austegard — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:18:18 +0000

Regarding 3.: You may want to have a look at my post MOSS: SPQuery CAN recurse through folder structures. There’s no need to use a loop (which would be horribly inefficient).

Comment on Expand VHD File by Steve Pietrek

Steve Pietrek — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:51:24 +0000

Yep, it wasn’t so bad once I had all the information. Unfortunately it was like a 4 hour process to find it.

You will have to let me know how VMWare is. I’ve heard great things about it but haven’t wanted to spend the $200. Maybe I’ll download the evaluation copy and give that a whirl. I did download a beta version and ran into some issues (can’t remember off the top of my head) - I’m sure they are fixed now.