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Sneaking past the SharePoint Usage Log
I'm writing a piece of code that regularly polls a MOSS server and checks several files. This can happen quite a few times a day, and this totally skews my Usage Reports for my sites. Does anyone know of a way to tell MOSS to ignore calls made by a specific...

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:13 PM by Avner Kashtan | 1 comment(s)

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Any signs of life for the SharePoint Extensions for Visual Studio?
Has anything been released - or, in fact, talked about - since August's release of the v1.1 CTP ? Haven't done any web-part development in a while and wanted to get back in the game. I last used the v1.0 extensions, and was surprised that nothing much...

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:57 PM by Avner Kashtan | 1 comment(s)

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Dynamically creating a Sharepoint Web-Service proxy instance
In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same server. Given that I find myself writing a lot of boilerplate...

Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 7:55 PM by Avner Kashtan | 7 comment(s)

Some more glaring omissions in the Sharepoint 2007 SDK and Web Services
I downloaded the new Sharepoint 2007 SDK today, published last week though it's dated from April 2007. There appears to be no change history for this version of the SDK. I was hoping for more information on new Web Service methods available in 2007 -...

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:57 AM by Avner Kashtan | 8 comment(s)

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No Per-item permissions in WSSv3's Web Services?!
How did I miss this until now? It's great that WSSv3 and MOSS give us granular permissions, and it's great that I can access those permissions via an SPListItem's RoleAssignments collection - but is there really no way of getting this information in a...

Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 5:52 PM by Avner Kashtan | 4 comment(s)

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Retrieving all properties for a Sharepoint list
When we call the GetListItems or GetListItemChanges methods in Sharepoint's Lists Web Service, we pass an XmlNode parameter specifying which fields we want to return, in this format: <ViewFields> <FieldRef Name="ows_ID"/> </ViewFields>...

Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:33 PM by Avner Kashtan | 5 comment(s)

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Customizing MOSS Page Title
Another odd client request that came in a while ago. When we browse our Sharepoint site, IE's title reads "Home - My Site Name - Windows Internet Explorer". We can't find any way to remove the "Home" string, regardless of how we change the site's name...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:00 PM by Avner Kashtan | 26 comment(s)

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Sharepoint Extensions for Visual Studio - released!
Finally, we have a full, RTM version of the Visual Studio extensions! The download page says March 15th, but I haven't seen anyone mention it around yet - could it be just me that missed the boat? I got it from Mark Bower's blog , but haven't seen it...

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:04 PM by Avner Kashtan | 8 comment(s)

Session Error with Reports Center under MOSS 2007 - Not what you expect
Ran into a problem with a client today. They installed MOSS 2007 and created a publishing portal, but then decided to erase the Reports Center, since they had no use for it. A few days later, of course, they figured they DID want it after all, and recreated...

Posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:37 PM by Avner Kashtan | with no comments

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Sharepoint Extensions for Visual Studio 2005
Any news on when a new release of the extensions are due? The state of the current tools is downright abyssmal. Even ignoring the requirement to run VS on the Sharepoint server machine, half the things don't work or are horribly slow. The Sharepoint Solution...

Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:53 PM by Avner Kashtan | 4 comment(s)

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