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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: Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture...
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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 discussion ranging from the different ways that...
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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 by to see what I could learn. If anyone else from...
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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 check in a file that does not have all the required...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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; Kurt DelBene, Corporate Vice President...
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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 file, the page will not render correctly. If the...
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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 here: Part 1 Part 2 Till next time,
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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 and samples included with the MOSS SDK: Developer...
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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 a document library. In today's post I will...
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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 first web part. If you want a more in-depth how...
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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. This is a really nice feature, but beware as...
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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, you have to do some extra work. If you have a...