Let it be known that I hate out of the box ASP.NET. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. I detest it. The simplicity with which it allows the average developer to create applications leads to applications designed for RAD...
Frequently, when working with Office, SharePoint, and SharePoint web services, it is necessary to convert between the “normalized” (hex escaped string) version of a field name. To that end, I found a useful JavaScript tool for normalizing strings into SharePoint’s...
One of the most confounding things about working with the SharePoint web services is that the return values are all in XML strings (wrapped in an XmlNode). To make working with the services even more puzzling, suppose you get a...
When using the lists service to query the “User Information List” (the SharePoint list where the users and groups is located), you may encounter the exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Exception of type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException’ was thrown. at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse( SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse...
See if you can figure out how much your company’s deployment of MOSS2007 will cost: Feature Matrix (in Excel, no less) Baffling Pricing List “How to Buy“ Mindblowingly convoluted.
In WSS3, the process of adding users to a document workspace (or any sub-web) has changed from WSS2. The following snippet will allow you to add a user (I’ve only tested with users mapped to domain accounts) to the workspace:...
In WSS3, if you execute the following SQL:
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<span style="font-family: Courier;"> <span style="color: #008000;">SELECT</span> <span style="color: #000000;">ContentTypeId</span> <span style="color: #008000;">FROM </span> <span style="color: #000000;">ContentTypes</span> </span> |
You will notice that the content types are represented in the output as hex. If you take a look at the table definition, you’ll see that the actual data type of...
I dunno if this was supported in WSS2 or not, but in WSS3, when a file is copied to a new destination, a link is stored which indicates where the new document is copied from. In the database, you can...