I am used to building java web applications. I am used to MCV. As I learn how to build a Sharepoint site, is it ok to think of building Sharepoint sites similarly, particulary where there is business logic layer, that, for instance, would grab data from various DBs, do some logic, then go to a certain page? ...
We have a .NET ActiveX control which is embedded inside a custom SharePoint page. The user has to authenticate (Windows Authentication not Forms Authentication) to access this page. Our ActiveX control is making web service calls back to the SharePoint server. Because the SharePoint server does not allow anonymous access, we need to p...
Very strange edge case that has me perplexed. I have a web service that returns a list of permissions for a list of site urls. To determine if a user has permissions to the site I use the following code. [WebMethod] public GetSiteListPermissionsResponseCollection GetSiteListPermissions(string[] siteList) { Ge...
hi, I have wss 3.0 set up and in use, but the search is not working. most of the troubleshooting starts with "open central administration, click Operations then Services On Server, then start and stop WSS Search Server".. but there is no search server listed.. only services are central admin, help search, incoming email, and web app. ...
Hi, I work with MOSS on a daily basis, but to be a "Sharepoint Developer", what would the roadmap of tasks I need to master/concepts I need to know? So I've learnt webparts, featurs, and how to deploy them (I'm going to actually practise this very soon but have some technical issues to solve on my workstation), but I haven't seen an act...
Hi I'm tying to package a vsewss 1.3 solution in cmd. I get it to build and all seems to work until it starts the deployment then i get the error message: Specified method is not supported. my command is: devenv xxx.sln /deploy Release /package has also tried: devenv xxx.sln /deploy Release ...
I have created a feature, a publishing site, in Visual Studio to MOSS - this feature contains a masterpage, some pages, some site columns (grouped to match each page) etc. I have also created a site collection, some sites and pages based on my template. My next step is to create some definitions to contain very specific page content - t...
I'm on a team that's currently building a MOSS 2007 based application (which relies on .NET 2), and we'd like to leverage the Entity Framework v4 (which relies on .NET 4). Is this possible? ...
I have two event recievers setup on a list in 2010. The first is a ItemAdded reciever that works every time: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Receivers ListTemplateId="10000"> <Receiver> <Name>ListItemReceiverItemAdding</Name> <Type>ItemAdding...
Hi, I am trying to create a custom content type in Sharepoint where one of the multiple choice fields needs to get data from Active Directory. I've been looking on Google but haven't found any good solutions. Probably I'd have to create a custom field type? Thanks! ...
I have a workflow on a Sharepoint list which sends an email alert based on a date field in the list item - this requires using the "pause until" option. This seems to lock the "on change" workflow from being fired again if another change is made during the period of the pause. Is there some way around this? Some details, since maybe I...
Hi Guys, I need to build a Sharepoint (Windows Sharepoint Services - WSS) site for a project management team. I built application pages(aspx) to handle some dashboard functions. I would like to apply "security trimming" for the left menu to show the respective menu options for the user's role. There is no OOTB functionality for this ...
Does any one know if there is a ASP.NET website available that is a pretty good clone of the style and layout of a SharePoint site? I don't need the functionality of SharePoint, I would like to be able to quickly mock up some controls for SharePoint, with out having to actually deploy stuff to the server, and want to be able to see what...
I set up a public blog site with Sharepoint and completed all anonymous access settings. I gave Add, Edit, Delete, View permissions to anonymous users for the Comments list as described here The problem is, on the home page when an anonymous user clicks on the title of a post, browser asks for login information. The requested page is "h...
I have a WSS 3.0 site (no MOSS) that uses a custom forms authentication membership provider and role manager, authenticating users against a remote web service (although at the moment it works against moq data). My problem is this: users when logged in have their name shown as being their login name, not their full name. I set up my pro...
Can sharepoint search work for list item attachments. I have a custom list where I am loading attachments. Can SharePoint search through the content of the attachment. ...
Hi, I am planning to learn the following courses on my own. MS SharePoint MS Dynamics Would you please provide any good reference URLs, CBTs and books for this? Thank you.. Regards, Karina. ...
HI , I am a PHP developer. I keep getting told by a friend who works as a service delivery consultant to move into SharePoint. My question is if I have no experience in .Net would it be hard for me to move into SharePoint? So should I learn .Net then move into SharePoint? ...
I have created a multicolumn custom field and deployed it in SharePoint. To be able to use the field values from my custom field I also deployed an event receiver to copy the three values from my custom field to three separate regular text fields. If the three text fields do not exist I create them with XML in code. I also make sure the ...
I want to get all the views (SPView) of the entire site, without the need to enumerate all the lists of the site and get the List.views. Is it possible? Thanks. ...