Category Archives: MOSS

Display debugging details in your custom _layouts pages & web services

If you develope SharePoint custom application pages sitting in _layouts folder, you probably often face the situation when the error is happening on a page and all you got is some basic SharePoint information or in some cases you can’t … Continue reading

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Resolving issues with custom SharePoint web services interacting with client side Javascript

Here is the scenario: You’re working on a custom functionality in SharePoint that will be implementing Javascript call to your custom web service and returning some rsults as JSON. We’ll make it a POST call. Considering that you already provisioned your … Continue reading

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Setting SharePoint to allow upload of large files (Maximum request length exceeded)

Here is the scenario:  your users upload large architectual drawings or similar types of documents to their SharePoint document libraries and they get the following error “Maximum request length exceeded” or you want to make sure your users can’t upload … Continue reading

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Debug your SharePoint applications better than ever before

If you’re doing innovative development with SharePoint – and that’s what like 99% of it, you probably run into the scenarios where you really want to get to the bottom of things and find out how the product behaves when … Continue reading

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Updating SharePoint site columns programatically

Here is the scenario: you have a content type on the site that you use throughout on your items. You have a site column defined as a part of your content type. Suppose your site column is a choice field … Continue reading

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Automatic SharePoint 2010 webpart provisioning right into a page layout

If  you worked with MOSS or SharePoint 2010 publishing template – you know that you can provision page layouts that can be used by other pages to conform to page layout zones. However, all of the content, such as webparts and … Continue reading

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Provision SharePoint site masterpage based on custom logic

When deploying your SharePoint site you probably are using an automated script that will provision all of your webs and features. If your site has custom master page you can apply the setting for it inside your site template ONET.xml. … Continue reading

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Forefront Security for SharePoint Tips & Tricks

If you used SharePoint out of the box filtering and AV capabilities you know there is more to wish for. Have you looked at latest Forefront security for SharePoint. Check out this 12 min video below for comparison of features … Continue reading

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Add SPFieldChoice items in the list

One of the things we`re doing at my company with some many SharePoint projects over years is seal custom functionality as Framework Features and deploy them in a separate WSP. When a new project comes on we`re just calling various … Continue reading

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