Well last week saw the first European SharePoint Best practices conference organised by Combined Knowledge here in London. The event, located at the QEII Conference centre in Westminster was exceptionally well run by Combined Knowledge, Steve and the gang certainly know how to run a user event and all of the staff from CK and …
Mar 04
SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool
The Microsoft SharePoint team have released a SharePoint disposal checker tool to the MSDN community. This command line tool scans individual asseblies, or entire directory structures and analyses the code for memory leaks through poor disposal. I ran it against some of my assemblies and I’m happy to say only my quick command line tools …
Mar 03
List view Web parts… No folder breadcrumb
One thing that has always confounded me is the lack of a breadcrumb in List View WebParts. Picture the scenario, You drag a Document library list view onto your web part page. fine no problems there. You click on the first folder, down one level, then another, Then perhaps one more.. Hang on, I thought …
Jan 29
List Item Attachments – Handling the uploads manually.
Uploading files into SharePoint from code is not an onerous task. The hard part comes from creating the items and metadata around the file that you wish to upload. One area that is really easy to work with is List item Attachments. If you examine the SPListItem class, you’ll find mention of an SPAttachmentsCollection available …
Jan 19
Holy rusted metal batman, Is that the date?
Okies, We’re into Mid January and I haven’t managed to get a post up since Christmas.. Life is busy..what can I say.. At the moment, I’m working with Site Column and Content type definitions in CAML.. well worth a post as the documentation availability is just awsome!! (TIC) In addition, I’ve finished off the document …
Dec 24
Merry Christmas
Sad as it is, I’m on the computer at 23:08 UK time.. I was hoping to get some more details about my document creation system posted up, but just ran out of time today working on a slight bug with the XMLResultsiterator. Once I’ve honed that puppy I’ll be posting here with the first set …
Dec 09
December already?
Ok, this is turning into a one post a month blog.. not what I intended at all. At the moment, I’m working on a very nifty automated document creation feature for SharePoint. It’s by no means a simple solution as we’re bringing together elements of SharePoint library and file management, Binary Document Streams, manipulating Open …
Nov 03
Content Query Web Parts.. the new god?
I’ve only worked with the CQWP a few times and have never really got under the bonnet, however just recently at a client they had a requirement that I couldn’t solve OOTB… Time to dive into the inner workings of the CQWP.. And boy am I glad i did.. this web part rocks! There are …
Sep 30
A question of authorisation..
I’m writing some custom application pages that run from the _Layouts directory. They’re triggered by items on the Edit Control Block menu.. (See the previous post from the other day on this option..) One of the things that has really come up with this is the question of authorisation, and confirming that the user does …
Sep 24
Adding a ContentType Specific item to the ECB (Edit Control Block)
There’s plenty of articles on the net that tell you how to add items onto the Edit Control Block for a given list type, But I found articles on Content Types to be in short supply.. So, for the benefit of Mr google bot… (Edit Control Block Entries for Custom Content Types) How do we …