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Yesterday we were trying to change the session state properties of one of our sharepoint web sites and what resulted was really odd. After we made the changes, we started getting the following in our event log error: Error: Failure in loading assembly...

Published 12-05-2007 1:42 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: asp.net, SharePoint

Chicago MOSSCamp Followup

Yesterday I spent the afternoon in lovely downtown Chicago at MOSSCamp 2007. The turnout for this was great. Actually, there were more people then there was room for (about the only negative on the day). The day started out great. There was a nice group...

Published 11-10-2007 3:38 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

See you at Chicago MOSSCamp 2007

On Friday, November 9th there is going to be a one day MOSSCamp in downtown Chicago. This is the equivalent to the CodeCamps that are run across the country, but is specific to MOSS. Since I have been diving in to MOSS, I thought it would be nice to drop...

Published 10-31-2007 7:40 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

SoapException when performing CheckInFile via WSS 3.0

This is just an FYI. If you are ever calling the CheckInFile method that is on the Lists.asmx web service in WSS 3.0 (MOSS 2007) and you get the following exception System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException. It is highly likely that you are trying to...

Published 10-09-2007 11:30 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

Great post on how to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2007

I came across this great post on how to enable anonymous access in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007 tonight. This was very helpful because I was not able to get it working correctly for me, because I missed a step that this post stated. Post can be found here

Published 10-02-2007 9:04 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out, SharePoint

MOSS Development: Getting your environment up and running.

I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may...

Published 09-22-2007 4:29 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, asp.net, HowTo, SharePoint

Updating List Information in SharePoint via Web Services

In my continued learning on SharePoint and how to manipulate the data stored in SharePoint I thought I would post on how to perform updates on existing data inside a document library. When performing an update on data inside of SharePoint there are a...

Published 09-19-2007 7:49 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, SharePoint, Featured

Microsoft announces MOSS 2008 conference

Just in case anyone is interested, M.S. announced the MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) 2008 conference. You can find more (not much more though) information here . The event will feature keynote addresses by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation;...

Published 09-12-2007 7:04 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

Sharepoint Web Part Gallery Configuration Gotcha

In order to add a new web part to Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) you need to add the assembly information to the <SafeControl> list inside the sites Web.Config file. When doing so make sure to type carefully. If you make a mistake when editing the config...

Published 08-29-2007 10:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, SharePoint

A Nice 2 Part series on getting started with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 from MSDN

Over at MSDN there is a nice 2 part series about getting started in developing SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 solutions/add-ins. These 2 articles are well worth the read for any newbie (like myself) and I would highly recommend reading them. They can be found...

Published 08-28-2007 7:17 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

New SharePoint 2007 SDK Released

Recently (on 8/22) Microsoft released their latest SharePoint 2007 SDK. This new SDK has a ton of new stuff along with more/better documentation. You can get the new SDK from here . Here is a overview of what is new in this version of the SDK: New tools...

Published 08-28-2007 5:39 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

Retrieving List Information in Share Point

One common tasks that I have needed to do while working with SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is to retrieve information in regards lists or libraries. You need this information when you want to perform add, update, or delete functions when working with data from...

Published 08-25-2007 8:42 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, HowTo, SharePoint

Creating your first WSS/Sharepoint Web Part

In WSS 3.0, the creation of web parts is easier than ever. Since WSS 3.0 is fully based on and built around ASP.Net 2.0 you can leverage the .net framework to do your heavy lifting. Today I thought I would create a simple post on how to create your very...

Published 08-13-2007 7:50 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, SharePoint

Renaming Issue with a Site Column in Sharepoint

One of the features with Sharepoint (WSS 3.0 is what I am speaking about) is the ability to create ‘site columns’ for use in your site. A site column is basically a data column that can be shared across all libraries/sub sites within your Sharepoint site...

Published 08-09-2007 2:34 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

Sharepoint Services Gotcha, Field names with Whitespaces

Today I ran into a pesky little issue when trying to query documents from sharepoint. In a previous example I talked about how to query documents from sharepoint, but what I did not know at the time is that if you have a field name that has a whitespace...

Published 08-07-2007 9:25 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, SharePoint

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Trust your tools, but only if you know what they are doing.

Chicago MOSSCamp Followup

See you at Chicago MOSSCamp 2007

SoapException when performing CheckInFile via WSS 3.0

Great post on how to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2007

MOSS Development: Getting your environment up and running.

Updating List Information in SharePoint via Web Services

Microsoft announces MOSS 2008 conference

Sharepoint Web Part Gallery Configuration Gotcha

A Nice 2 Part series on getting started with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 from MSDN

New SharePoint 2007 SDK Released

Retrieving List Information in Share Point

Creating your first WSS/Sharepoint Web Part

Renaming Issue with a Site Column in Sharepoint

Sharepoint Services Gotcha, Field names with Whitespaces