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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:21 AM

Edit file in Wss3 web application with SharePoint Designer blows up your web site

I wanted to create a simple html file in the root of my Wss3 web application, so I created an empty file test.htm. I double clicked te file and because I have SharePoint Designer installed, it is the default editor for .htm files. I put some test into...
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Monday, January 07, 2008 12:00 AM

SharePoint Content Management Package (CMP) explorer

Ronalus has created a great small utility to explore the contents of SharePoint Content Management Pages called Content Migration Package Explorer . This tool can be used to investigate the data exported by the SharePoint Content Migration API. You can...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:56 PM

SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

I just stumbled accross a handy little utility that is really handy during SharePoint development: Show List and ViewGUIDs . Type a Site URL, and select “Display Lists Titles and Ids”. From the list of lists you can select a list GUID, and...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:11 AM

SharePoint stsadm.exe and the infamous "Command line error"

The SharePoint command-line utility stsadm.exe was driving me crazy for the last two days. I'm automating all kind of this from PowerShell scripts, but I got the error "Command line error" while I was absolutely sure that what I was doing was correct...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:39 PM

Powershell: Is a SharePoint solution installed or deployed?

I was having some fun with PowerShell to talks against the SharePoint object model. I needed to know if a SharePoint solution was installed and if it was deployed. I got to the code below. Might be handy for someone to see how easy it is to get info out...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:31 PM

PowerShell: Creating a SharePoint solution package (WSP file) with CAS

I need to add some code access security information to a SharePoint solution package manifest file. Given the assembly file we can retrieve the required assembly info, and with some xml magic in PowerShell create some result xml. It is not actually the...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:42 PM

SharePoint: Custom Field Type for MultiLine text

When you add a custom field type that can hold more than the 255 characters you can't use a field of type SPFieldText because it has a max length of 255 characters. An obvious candidate is to use the field type SPFieldMultiLineText. No problems so far...
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Friday, August 17, 2007 1:58 PM

PowerShell: get SharePoint Central Administration web application path

One of those things that you find out, forget, and never find back. So its more a post to self;-) [void][reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint") [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication]::Local.IisSettings...
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:39 PM

SharePoint Features - elements, scope and other info

When designing features for SharePoint 2007 you always have to think about the scope where the feature should be executed: Web, Site, WebApplication or Farm. Microsoft has a nice table in its documentation that gives insight in what can be done where...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:54 AM

SharePoint 2007 - do it the feature way

When developing for Wss3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 you don't create your own installers anymore, you build features and solutions. Getting started with this is still a difficult task because there is so much to take into account. The...
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