sharepoint

Upgrading from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007

If there are extensive modifications made to search.aspx in SPS 2003, will they get lost when you upgrade to MOSS 2007? ...

Upload document to specific folder in a SharePoint Document library using WebClient

I have some client side code that uploads an Outlook email to a document library and as long as the path is pointing to the root of the doc library it works just fine. @"https://<server>/sites/<subweb>/<customer>/<teamweb>/<Documents>/" + docname; is the projectUrl in this function : public bool SaveMai...

SharePoint and Office Open XML interaction question

Hi all, I've been frustrated by this for the entire weekend, plus a day or two, so any help would be significantly appreciated. I'm trying to write a program that can programmatically go into a SharePoint 2007 doc library, open a file, change the contents of the file, then put the file back. I've gotten all but the last part of this do...

How do I upload a document to SharePoint with Java?

I'm creating some big files (DB exports) with Java and I need to put them somewhere on our SharePoint server. Right now, I'm doing this with IE but I'd like to automate this step, too. I searched the web and I found some hints to use SOAP but I don't really see to the ground of all this, yet. Can someone provide me with some sample code...

SharePoint and thread safety

I'm looking for articles, forum or blog posts dealing with SharePoint and thread safety? I'm quite sure there are some special aspects regarding thread safety that have to be considered when working with the SharePoint object model. Actually I didn't find many information about this, yet. So I'm looking forward to your answers. Bye...

Sharepoint List View Settings

We have created a new List View Style that shows thumbnails from a picture library, we have added a HyperLink Column and made the View style map the HyperLink url to an anchor tag. The intention is that when the Content Managers want to create a image based list of hyper links they just have to create a Picture Library, and then add a w...

What are some good techniques for performance testing SharePoint web parts and controls?

This is a question about performance testing specific to SharePoint web parts and controls (although standard ASP.NET methods would be applicable as well). I'm wondering what are some good techniques, considering factors such as: caching (what and when should you cache?) load balanced servers (storing state) interaction with other part...

TFS 2005 Wiki Template?

Is there a Wiki plugin for TFS 2005, ie. SharePoint Services 2.0? ...

SharePoint Default Styles

I'm building a custom web part for SharePoint and I'm trying to use the default styles so when people theme the site, it will theme with it. I've found a couple of decent sites that show the different styles like: http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/resources/tipstricks/wss_cssguide.htm but I'm looking for something that has better ...

SharePoint - Custom Dataview - Link Rendering Issues

Hey All, I have a custom SharePoint page with several dataviews. The dataviews essentially filter documents matching a certain criteria from a document library and display a link to the document along with some other meta data. The problem I have is that when a document has a single quote in it's title, the character is being rendered ...

Authentication Error when accessing Sharepoint list via web service

I wrote a windows service a few months ago that would ping a Sharepoint list using _vti_bin/lists.asmx function GetListItemChanges. It was working fine until a few weeks ago when my company upgraded our Sharepoint instance to SP1. Now whenever my service attempts to access Sharepoint I receive an 401.1 authentication error: Error: ...

Page Not Found Error on SharePoint Sites in TFS

Hi all, I'm in big trouble here, today i was asked to add a new user to TFS, the first thing I do is adding it to SharePoint, but now every time I tried to enter the project portal (Team Explorer -> right click on project -> Show project portal) I got an page not found error, with every single project, Here are some basic info about the ...

Content type custom document information panel

I have a custom content type with custom fields. I'm trying to create a custom document information panel using infopath. Whenever I try to do that infopath gives me this error propertySchema0.xsd#/schema/element[1][@name = 'properties']/complexType[1]/sequence[1]/element[1][@name = 'documentManagement']/complexType[1]/all[1]/element[1]...

How can I force my SharePoint AjaxSmartPart to use the smaller "Release" mode javascript?

I use ReturnOfSmartPart on WSS3 to display a ASCX in Sharepoint as a web part. This works beautifully. The only problem is that the AjaxSmartPart seems to be using the Debug mode javascript (the scripts are close to 1MB!) How can I ensure that the AjaxSmartPart only uses the "Release" mode java scripts? Note: I have Published my ASC...

Getting the Web Capture Web Part to work were the Sharepoint is 64bit

Previously our Sharepoint server was 32bit and we used the web capture web part to display a bugzilla search results page. Since we've migrated to a 64bit server the webpart no longer works. We're running the same versions of everything, the only change was moving from a Windows2003 32bit box to a Windows2003 64bit box. Oddly enough, th...

SharePoint Webparts and Ajax

Please, I am new to webparts and I need help!! I have a custom web part that I created. I added MS Ajax to it using an UpdatePanel which works fine. I add all my controls to the CreateChildControls method. As soon as I add a UpdateProgress control my page breaks with the following error: Script controls may not be registered before Pre...

Make it impossible for users to remove web parts/zones?

In Sharepoint, is it possible to deny regular users the possibility of removing web parts and/or web part zones? If yes; how? ...

Test deployment for Sharepoint by multiple developers on a single server

We are starting with Sharepoint development with a team of three and are currently setting up our development environments. We would like to avoid installing a Server 2008 for each developer, thus a single terminal server has been setup, using Remote Windows to start a VS2008 instance on each developer's machine. Now we would like to sep...

Setting a publish page content programatically

Hi there, I want to know how to set a Publishing page content through the code (MOSS 2007).This is how I've created the page: PublishingPage page = publishingWeb.GetPublishingPages().Add("MyPage.aspx", pageLayout); SPFile pageFile = page.ListItem.File; page.Title = "My Page"; page.Update(); But all my attempts of ...

Querying list items and using SharePoint web services vs the object model

My company is looking into writing a custom application that will need to perform many list item queries across multiple site collections. It will need to run for WSS 3.0 and it 'would be nice' if it worked on WSS 2.0 as well. It won't be designed for MOSS/SPS but again it 'would be nice' if it worked on these platforms. There is no rest...