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 or may not already know, MOSS will only run on Windows...
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 few steps that need to happen to make your journey...
Have you ever wanted to or needed to view the actual contents of the GAC? Not just what is in the GAC, but actually grab the assemblies that are there? I know I have. You may be asking WHY did you want to grab an assembly that is in the GAC. 2 reasons: I wanted to move a copy of the assmebly from one...
If you have ever worked with XML, you know that XPath is your friend. Today I working with an XML document that was generated via MSWord and the generated document was well formed and included namespaces. Now, I have worked with namespaces in XML in the past, but it has been a LONG time. I thought I...
For the latest thing I am doing at work I need to be able to grab some data from Sharepoint. I have chosen to do this by consuming SPServices.asmx server that is available. Because I was not able to find a decent post on the net on how to use/consume this service, I thought I would create my own. For...
I finally got around to installing Orcas on my laptop this weekend. You are probably asking yourself, what took so long? Simple, my laptop did not have the spare 14gigs needed in order to get it up and running. It took some pretty major house cleaning in order to get enough spare space. Oh well, on to...