November 2007 - Posts
I just a found another great post about memory management and performance issues on the SharePoint platform. This article defines the concept of "Memory Pressure" and discusses in great detail the most common reasons for memory pressure situations and
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I just found two great articles posted in the MSDN web site by Patrick Tisseghem of U2U that covers a series of aspects on development with the SharePoint platform, including explanation of the differences between ASP.NET and SharePoint development, several
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I found another very useful article in the MSDN web site for SharePoint developers that are working on WCM. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to build and deploy a custom master page and associated page layouts with a very complete set
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In any web site, performance should be among the main concerns (especially if a large amount of users is expected) and SharePoint web sites are no exception. This MSDN article provides a series of guidelines to optimize the performance of a SharePoint,
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I developed a custom web part that basically renders a form and submits the entered data into a SharePoint list. The problem I was having is that when the form button was clicked, I got the following error: "Invalid postback or callback argument.
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When web parts are deployed in a SharePoint Site Collection, they become available in the Web Part Gallery, so that they can be added to web part pages. The Web Part Gallery page shows the list of web parts installed in a Site Collection and each of the
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I needed to edit a page layout in a Publishing Site and I was adding a custom web part using SharePoint Designer. Everything seemed to be working fine (the web part was successfully added to the page) but when I browsed to the page, I got a "No parameterless
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Sometimes debugging SharePoint errors is not the easiest of tasks. The most common and annoying situation is when the "An unexpected error has occurred" error message is shown and nothing is written to both the trace log files (check my previous post
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I recently found in the CodePlex web site, two very interesting and useful tools to ease the process of deployment of a SharePoint 2007 solutions: SharePoint Solution Installer – You can get this application here . It's a Windows application with a friendly
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In SharePoint 2007 web sites, web parts can be removed from a web part page using two methods: Closing the web part (by clicking the "X" button) Deleting the web part While the second method actually deletes the web part from the web part page, the first
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