SharePoint Delegate Controls: What EVERY SharePoint developer should know, but most do not. Every time I talk to someone about SharePoint 2007 development, I ask them if they know about SharePoint delegate controls. Almost all of them have said no at first. LEARN THEM! I feel this is one of the most...
If you have followed the steps in the MSDN article http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464040.aspx or used the blog post http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/km/sharepoint/archives/creating-a-custom-web-service-for-sharepoint-13553 you may have run into an error that looked like the follow: Could not load...
You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the new DLL into the CAB file? Wouldn't it surprise...
I've been working recently on a lot of code which needed debugging inside of SharePoint. One of the frustrating aspects of SharePoint development is the annoying debugging story. Click Debug, click Attach to Process, click your desired process(es), click Attach, click OK on each process popup......
If you are creating an externally accessible portal or extranet with SharePoint which uses Forms based authentication, business requirements such as Search and ECM Publishing might require you to create an intranet portal which uses NTLM or Kerberos authentication. To do this, you'd first create a Web...
I've finally finished (almost) with the project that has been keeping me up late at night. I want to thank Doug Ware , Brendon Schwartz , Dan Attis , and Adam Buenz for all the help they gave me over the past several months while I struggled to bring this beast to its knees. I did some cool work so I...
I am trying to determine what type of authentication the current SharePoint 2007 web site has, but no matter which SharePoint site I checked the AuthenticationMode of the SPWeb always seems to return WindowsAuthentication. The site that I am using is set up with Forms Based Authentication (FBA), and...
Have you ever wanted a list of Features packaged in a solution that you could just click a button to install? Well the good news is that I have too. To solve this problem I extended a great tool called the Power Toys Pack Installer from CodePlex . If you want to check out the Solution Installer that...
I have been doing some SharePoint 2007 work for the past couple months and I find it very difficult to find information about just SharePoint 2007 BETA 2 . If anyone knows where a good newsgroup or forum is please let me know. In the mean time I have set up a Forum ( http://devcow.com/forums/default...