Tips and Tricks

Each field type has a different way to be read from and written to. The most used ones (single line of text, multiple lines of text, number, currency, date...

In a Document Library, when you create a new document using the New button (or edit one that already exists), SharePoint will open the proper client application (if it...

When defining a List Template, using a SharePoint feature, one needs to specify the Base Type attribute (see sample below). <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">    <ListTemplate        BaseType="0"        Category="Custom Lists"        Name="ConfigurationList"        DisplayName="Configuration List"        Description="My...

When developing a web part (whether in WSS 3.0 or in ASP.Net 2.0) it can be important that it appears differently if the user is in edit mode. The simplest...

Attention: this post refers to the CTP2 version of PerformancePoint Server 2007. If, when opening Excel (2007 or 2003), after installing the PerformancePoint Add-In for Excel, you can't find...

Note: this post is about the CTP4 version of PerformancePoint Server 2007. If you've used PerformancePoint Server 2007 to build Business Models (using PerformancePoint Business Modeler), you might have noticed that the created models...

In WSS (and MOSS), when you create a list, the name you gave it is used as its URL (except any special characters which are replaced with their respective codes). Later on, you...

Lookup fields are the equivalent of foreign keys if you consider SharePoint lists as tables of a relational data base. When creating a lookup site column, you just need to choose which list and...

Criar forms InfoPath para usar com Workflows criados no Visual Studio para o SharePoint é, à partida, mais simples do que criar páginas ASPX. No entanto, apesar de existir...

In SharePoint, when an error occurs in a web part that prevents it to be rendered on the page, an error page is displayed to the user with a link...