Monthly Archives: April 2009

Usefull links on SharePoint Calculated field

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Even if you played around with SharePoint calculated fields before I bet you didn`t know this – you can extract date parts from the date field.  More about this and other great examples that will save your day are here: … Continue reading →

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Serious bugs in System.Net.Mail (.Net framework 2.0, maybe 3 nd 3.5)

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Recently came accross this issue with .NET framework. Cost me quite a lot as you can imagine; basically I spammed tons of people. The MailMessage.To.Clear() doesn’t clear. After googling a bit I found that I’m not the only one with … Continue reading →

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Four practices on improving you custom web and SharePoint application security

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Published on SSWUG today: Four practices on improving you custom web and SharePoint application security Definately something to check on and make sure you`re not making those mistakes I did once

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Support Ride to Conquer Cancer

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Team at my company, Hot Tomali, is rasing funds and participating in a bike ride from Vancouver to Seattle. Here is the donation link Your support is appreciated.

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Adding custom context menu items to specific SharePoint lists

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last post, wetalked about how you can attach your own document library or list custom context menu item to any existing document library or list type. This means that any library will have your custom action displayed, which … Continue reading →

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Adding custom context menu items to SharePoint list or library

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Every time you click Site Actions -> Create and get a list of various document library and list templates – each one of those represent a feature of the specific type. If you like your context menu item to be … Continue reading →

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How reliable is your JavaScript validation?

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Now that we’re all entering the world of Web 2.0 and nice dynamic web functionality is offered by a variety of JavaScript frameworks – don’t forget to do a server validation. When developing your application you may forget that by … Continue reading →

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Configuring MOSS public sites

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is a great article by Andrew Connell about configuring MOSS in public site scenario. Its a great reference point whether you are building new sites already or just thinking about it: Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Calling SharePoint webservices using JQuery

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is recent article by Jan Tielen on how to call web services using JQuery .. pretty useful in situations where we need to generate a dynamic menu based on sharepoint content etc, its a good read: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2009/04/09/calling-the-sharepoint-web-services-with-jquery.aspx

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