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Automatic .aspx Publising in SharePoint

I am currently publishing code behind .aspx in SharePoint. I can automatically publish the .dll to the bin folder of the virtual directory, but I cannot figure out how to push the .aspx pages and images to the server without manually using SharePoint Designer. Where does the folder exist? Or do I need to create a SharePoint feature for ...

Change the default list aspx pages in SharePoint

Is there a way to change the default pages used to edit/create/view a Sharepoint list item without using SharePoint designer? Since I've already created the aspx files on the development machine, it seem's a bit silly to have to install SharePoint designer on the customers server just to set a few default pages. ...

Render image in custom webpart from Picture Library

I have a custom webpart that is displaying dynamic list data, it needs to render an image from a Picture Library (or at least provide me the URL so I can encapsulate it with an tag), however, none of the fields in the Picture Library seem to contain the image URL? Is there a 'image utility' (SPImageUtility) or something I can use to pu...

Hyperlinks In Sharepoint Webpart

I've been working on a SharePoint project and I have gone the route of loading User Controls through a custom web part. I have several web controls where I need to dynamically generate hyperlinks (in a loop from a database) that will call certain functions of the User Control when clicked. When I'm building my own ASP.NET sites, I just...

Is it possible to aggregate information from portal list to My Site

Hi! Is it possible to aggreagate information from a list in a sitecollection and/or a portal site to "My Site"? I would like to display all my calendar appointments made in the portal (or sub-site collection) in a webpart under "My Site" ...

Sharepoint Web Services Tutorial

Hello! I'm trying to upload documents to SharePoint using web services attaching custom metadata to the files. I've searched but have not found a good tutorial covering all these topics. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Here's why I think I need to use web services: I'm developing on XP and the Sharepoint object model is ...

SharePoint 2007 Analytics Package.

While the built-in analytics of MOSS2007 are nice to have - they are inadequate at the same time. Any ideas where I can look for a more comprehensive package? Am I missing something? Thanks, Carl ...

Open Source SharePoint?

Is there an open source alternative to SharePoint? I'd like something that gives the same hierarchical structure and portlet-based design of SharePoint, but is open in source. Web based administration and customization is also a plus. ...

SharePoint and deployment of global.asax code

I want to start logging some custom messages into the ULS from my custom SharePoint code. My code is running inside list item receivers attached to some lists. I'd like to configure this logging mechanism within the application start event handler in global.asax. What's the best-practices way to deploy a SharePoint solution package th...

What's the best way to link to an external style sheet in SharePoint

I have some user controls that I'm loading in SharePoint and I would prefer to have all those styles contained in an external style sheet. What's the best way to link to an external stylesheet in CSS? Thanks. ...

How do I remove items from the Site Actions menu in SharePoint?

How can I customise the Site Actions menu to remove or rename 'standard' menu items? Where are the site actions menu items defined? ...

Using SPSite from 32bit application to access 64bit SharePoint

I've created a batch job that running in 32bit mode as it using 32bit COM objectes, this need to connect to SharePoint to make updates to list. It works in my development environment as it is full 32bit. But in my test and prodution environment we use 64bit SharePoint and this is what I get from SPSite: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: ...

Is it possible to attach a workflow to a task list on MOSS 2007?

I have tried but for some reason the workflow is not triggered. ...

MOSS 2007 BDC Filter

I'm new to MOSS. How do you set up/apply a filter using the MS BDC editor? I have run across a few samples but they don't go into any detail. ...

SharePoint: should I use lists or a database?

I am in a process of designing a custom SharePoint application. On a previous project, all the data was kept in SharePoint lists and that's the way I've been trying now. But, I'm getting to the point where the data model grows and I feel a need to normalize it and split one logical entity into several physical lists. I'm wondering if I s...

How do I change a SharePoint 2007's URL

I created a new SharePoint portal for testing purposes using a manually added HOSTS record. I have it all tested and want to expose it to the outside world using a URL from our DNS. I can't seem to find a straight forward way to change the URL of a SharePoint portal. Does anyone know where this setting is? Thanks. ...

Creating Custom Field Types and Custom Content Types

Does anyone have any good links for developing custom field and content types that doesn't involve using VSeWSS? Most of the stuff I have seen on the web requires installing VSeWSS, I would rather build them from scratch with just VS2005. Thanks ...

SharePoint stsadm addsolution - fails with permission based error (object ref)

Attempting to deploy a MOSS solution to a UAT server from dev server for the first time. On executing this command stsadm -o addsolution -filename xxx I get a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" Based on these links: (and others): [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/63f0f95d...

CAML to HTML

I'm invoking one of SharePoint's web service APIs that returns a CAML fragment. I've searched the interweb far and wide but I've been unable to figure out how to make this CAML fragment to render as "normal" HTML that I can render in a more sane environment like Plumtree, WLP, Liferay or any other portal besides SharePoint. Without a wa...

SPCrossListQuery fails to bring back results

I am calling SPWeb.GetSiteData(anSpCrossListQuery). It fails to bring back any results or any errors when I call it with an accidental space at the end of the CAML query <Where></Where> clause. Anyone have an idea why? ...