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Category Archives: SharePoint
Debugging file locking in the GAC
Do you ever find that your solution files have been “successfully deployed” according to SharePoint, yet the updated code isn’t taking effect? Perhaps you are trying to debug but breakpoints aren’t being hit when normally there’s no problem. Yet for … Continue reading
Gotchas configuring SSO
SharePoint 2007 seems to have some real weirdness going on with configuring SSO. I’ve been setting it up in a test environment in a very simple way, using the farm administrator account for everything: Microsoft Single Sign-on Service account, Single … Continue reading
“The rows you modified could not be saved to the server due to validation errors”
Encountered a strange problem copying and pasting between the datasheet views of two contact lists. Only the Contact and Country fields were showing in the datasheet view. When doing the paste, the following error appeared: The error gives some clue … Continue reading
Populate a SharePoint site collection from Excel
I’ve needed to populate a site collection with many hundreds of sites in an automated fashion several times over the last couple of years. Every time the business owner gives me an Excel spreadsheet of the sites they want created. … Continue reading
Programmatically retrieving the name of an SSP
This was asked on the new Stack Overflow programming questions site recently (which you should really check out and start using if you don’t already!). Getting the SSP name is something that I’ve needed to do to build the SSP … Continue reading
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Internal name vs display name
Anyone that’s done a reasonable amount of work with the SharePoint object model will soon come across its flaws. The one that I regularly come up against is when working with the SPField object that represents list columns. There are … Continue reading
SharePoint and SQL schemas
I’m just under two weeks away from installing the infrastructure update to a production environment. But of course these things need testing first so I started the install on the development environment. Thing’s went hairy for a while… First I … Continue reading
