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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Planning to enhance your SharePoint Dev skills this fall?
Alright, so if you’re local to Vancouver and looking for a nice wrap up of your week by learning SharePoint … you might be interested to know that I will be teaching SharePoint Development course at BCIT downtown starting September,Fridays 6-9PM. … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, wss
Tagged bcit, sharepoint, sharepoint course, sharepoint development, sharepoint training
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Porting SQL/Oracle/MS Access data to SharePoint
For those of you who need to port SQL/Oracle/MS Access data I recently almost started developing my own tool … until found DataViewer. These days when so many tools and components have been developed for MOSS and WSS – you`d … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, Product Review, sharepoint, wss
Tagged dataview webpart, oracle data, retrieve oracle data, sharepoint, SQL
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Resolving: Problem creating publishing site collection
Recently minding my own business – performing solution deployment - I get an error in my solution deployment script saying “The Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature must be activated at the site collection level before the Publishing feature can be … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint
Tagged error creating site collection, sharepoint, site collection, solution deployment
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Troubleshooting yet another SharePoint solution deployment issue
Not too long ago I talked about using sharepoint installer to troubleshoot and improve your solution deployment. In that particular article we talked about permission issue and how to track it down when deploying your solutions. This is particularly applicable … Continue reading
Handling SharePoint default content placeholders while branding
When doing branding and customizing your materpages especially for public sites using sharepoint you probably don’t want to display SharePoint out of the box controls that make sense for intranet. Those are links to default navigation items and things like … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint
Tagged branding, content placeholders, master page, sharepoint
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Rendering Silverlight charts based on SharePoint data
If you think this post is about how to create a webpart that renders charts based on data from SharePoint – you`re wrong; things are much simpler. Someone has created a set of webparts that do exactly that and all … Continue reading
Getting a hold of default SMTP server and default sender email in SharePoint
So you’re creating some custom piece of a functionality, whether it’s a webpart or a worflow or whatever; and you realize that you need to send email as a part of your workflow. Among other things, how do you get … Continue reading
Posted in MOSS, sharepoint, wss
Tagged default email sender, default email server, sharepoint
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Troubleshooting solution deployment issues on MOSS
It all started when i tried to build VS solution that was supposed to deploy my sharepoint site with all of the goodies on it to the farm, but it failed. And that`s why I`m here. As I realized later, … Continue reading
SharePoint branding and it’s deployment
Recently I came across this very usefull serries of posts at cleverworkarounds.com outlining the entire process from making your branding customizations like masterpage changes to deploying them to your portal. I strongly recommend keeping this as a reference, there are quite … Continue reading