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  • SharePoint query-language... documented...!

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    I feel bad for blaming Microsoft for having no documentation on the dsQuery language… its there: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/soapmqueryRequest_SV01071735.asp. Click through on the keywords and you end up in the CAML keywords…

     Reyn wrote even some piece of code to generate these queries in an easy way from C# code. See his weblog entry at http://dotnet.org.za/reyn/archive/2004/07/13/2738.aspx, and the code download at http://www.reyn.co.za/index.php?pr=SP_Query_Builder.

  • SharePoint query-language... completely undocumented....

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    When you convert a SharePoint list view (defined in CAML) to a XSLT Data View, Frontpage generates a query that looks like:

    And the strange thing is that virtually NO information is available on the query syntax.Why o why are such large portions of SharePoint still undocumented?

    If anyone has some pointers for me to documentation on this stuff, please let me know!!

  • New version of SharePoint SDK's

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    I love this new service of Microsoft to keep you up to date of updates and new software on Microsoft Download Center. Sign up at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=39737.

    This way I heard of the new SharePoint SDK’s that are out (jan05 version):

    WSS SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1C64AF62-C2E9-4CA3-A2A0-7D4319980011

    SPS SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aa3e7fe5-daee-4d10-980f-789b827967b0

    About the SPS SDK:

    What’s new in the January 2005 update for SharePoint Portal Server 2003:

    • Getting Started section that offers:
      • An expanded introduction to SharePoint Portal Server
      • Expanded Concepts and Architecture section with new topics about Profiles and Personalization, Search, and Enterprise Application Integration, and more
      • New Code Snippets section with code examples for topics such as the Audience, User Profiles, and Security object models
      • New FAQ section that offers answers to a wide range of questions about SharePoint Portal Server, including customization issues
    • Expanded Reference topics that address:
      • Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Search SQL Syntax
      • Protocol Handlers
      • IFilter Administration

    If you are looking for the location where the SPS SDK is installed, on my machine it ended up at C:\SPPTSDK.

  • Q: accessing javascript functions/variables outside windows object

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    Here a copy of a question I mailed to the creators of IeUnit. It is a very generic question, maybe someone somewhere out there in blogspace can help me out on this.

    I try to achieve something that I don’t seem to get done…

     

    In IeUnit a window is opened (through cscript) to access my web page using code like:

     

    win = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application");

     

    We then navigate to the page to test:

     

    win.navigate(accesstest.htm”);

     

    where accesstest.htm is a page containing the following html:

     

    <html>

    <head>

    <title>My test title</title>

    <script language="javascript">

    var getThis=10;

    document.getThat=20;

    </script>

    </head>

    <body>

    </body>

    </html>

     

    I can now display things like:

     

    win.document.title à My test title

    win.document.getThis à 10

     

    but….

     

    How can I access the getThis variable in the page?

     

    And why do I need this: I’m creating an IeUnit extension lib for testing SharePoint pages. I want to access the Web Part Page Services Component, defined in a variable WPSC. But I can’t access this variable from my test classes.

  • NAnt intellisense in VS.NET 2003

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    I know, a zillion people wrote about intellisense in VS.NET for NAnt files already, but just as a reminder for myself I write this blog entry:

    • Create a file NAntGenerateSchema.build with the following NAnt code, modify the SchemaFile property for your installation diretory/version of VS.NET:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
      <project name="GenerateNAntSchemaForVS.NET" default="genschema">
          <property name="SchemaFile" value="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml\NAnt.xsd"/>
          <target name="genschema">
              <nantschema output="${SchemaFile}" target-ns="http://nant.sf.net/schemas/nant.xsd"/>
          </target>
      </      project>

    • Call this script each time you add some extra tasks dll’s or when you move to a new version of NAnt, because it generates a schema based on the available NAnt tasks.

    • Add you NAnt build file to your VS.NET project (if possible).

    • Open the .build file in VS.NET using File->Open…->File…, and then notice the extra options in the lower right corner of the open file window, select Open With…:
      FileOpenExtraOptions

    • Now select to open this file as selected below, also click Set as Default:
      FileOpenOpenWith

    • Set in the properties window for this file the targetSchema to the NAnt schema:
      NAntSchema

    • Repeat for all your build files. Done.