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Introduction One of the most exciting features included in SharePoint 2007 is workflow support and the possibility of developing our own custom workflows (for more information about workflow development in the SharePoint 2007 platform please click here
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Introduction One of the areas where the SharePoint 2007 platform (both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) still needs to improve is deployment despite all the major improvements made when compared to its antecessor, the 2003 version. One of the faults I ran recently
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Introduction This blog post will show you how to check if a certain workflow instance is completed in a SharePoint list. In this example, let's assume that the default "Documents" document library in a team site is configured with a Collect
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When creating a new custom workflow project using Visual Studio 2008, a strong key file (.snk) file is automatically included in the project to sign the workflow assembly. A few days ago, I started developing a SharePoint 2007 Sequential Workflow project.
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Introduction This blog post will show you how to start a workflow programmatically every time an item is updated in a SharePoint list. For those who don’t know, Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the new engine for building custom workflows (you can
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After making a search to a SharePoint site, it isn't always easy to get a reference to each item returned in the search. This is because we don't know the Web and List where each item is located. The following example shows how this can be achieved: class
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A very common error message that appears when developing in the SharePoint platform is "Value does not all within the expected range" when trying to update an SPListItem that is the result of a query to a SharePoint list. Let's look at the
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One situation that you may have experienced is the lack of the "Save site as template" link in the Site Settings page of a MOSS 2007 site even if you have administrative privileges on the site or site collection. This will happen if your site
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When developing for the SharePoint platform, developers should be very careful in using the SharePoint API in order to avoid memory leaks in a production SharePoint farm. Roger Lamb has written a great post that shows a series of examples where code can
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It is a common scenario in WCM web sites, to have content page images stored in a column of type Image. SharePoint stores this kind of fields in the content database by storing the image HTML markup, storing an <IMG> tag like in the following example:
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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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