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One of the problems using Silverlight on SharePoint 2007 is how can we add a Silverlight control in the SharePoint site? A quickly and simple solution that i found to do it is the SPSilverlight web part, a web part that allows you to add a Silverlight control to SharePoint. The only configuration that you need to known is the path where the XAP ...

Today, i was looking to the TechNet videos for SharePoint and i found some interesting videos about Business Data Catalog (BDC). If you known what’s this feature, you can learn more about it here. Basically, the BDC is a new MOSS’s feature that allows you to integrate business data from the business applications, without spending much ...

I was building an InfoPath and it was necessary to retrieve information from a SharePoint List in XML format so i used this simple URL: http://YOUR SITE/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List={LISTGUID}&View={VIEWGUID}&XMLDATA=TRUE With this url you can create views with the information that you need and use it in xml format.

I'm always forgetting this simple but very useful line so here it is :) FormContext has this very cool Method SetFormMode and also this two properties FieldControlCollection (Get a collection of the Field Controls) , FormMode (Get the Current SPControlMode) SPControlMode - ...

Code Access Security (CAS) is an important technology for both SharePoint administrators and developers. But everyone that have the need to create one of this CAS policies would agree that isn't very easy to create them. Today i've discovered that we can create this complex configuration xml using WSP Builder, and the best part is that ...

When you need to do something in a list or item, in SharePoint, with a specific user you can use the SPUserToken. Here is an example: try{     SPWeb webOrigUser = SPContext.Current.Web;     //get the token for the impersonation user     SPUserToken token = ...

What to do when you try to execute a SPSiteDataQuery and sharepoint returns this error message: "The query cannot be completed because the number of lists in the query exceeded the allowable limit". You should, limit the scope of the query to the current site or list or use a custom column index to help reduce the number of ...

When you want to create a masterpage you should start with the Minimal.master page up on MSDN. It's a basic master page. It has everything you need in a masterpage, but no look and feel. You can then go and add everything you need. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx You can also use the minimal masterpage created by ...

When implementing a masterpage or page layout that needs to have breadcrumb, there are two providers for that, one that shows the entire path with list and folders and subfolders and other that only shows sites sub sites and page. So the first one is to be used on Intranet's the second can be used on both, but is more useful for Publishing ...

When you are creating a SharePoint page layout and what to have a specific datetime format ex: Friday, 15 February 2008 it's not possible using just the publishing date field of SharePoint.  But there is a very nice and clean trick: Add a new calculated field to the content type that you are using on the page layout with the ...