If you’re doing any sort of custom development within the MOSS framework, there might come a time when you’ll need to execute your code with elevated permissions. Meaning, instead of your code running under the context of the current user, you’ll want to run it using an account with a higher level of access. Within [...]
Continue Reading →Using Subversion to Source Control SharePoint Projects
Recently, I ran across a post from Andrew Connell where he addresses the question of moving content created in a dev environment to another environment, such as QA, staging or production. While the focus of his post was to answer that question, he did bring up an interesting point. Is it possible to use a [...]
Continue Reading →Yet Another Blog Entry on Creating Custom Themes in MOSS
If you’d like to create a custom theme to brand your SharePoint site, it’s relatively straight forward. Howevere, before you begin, I’d definitely recommend reading Heather Solomon’s blog post on Master Pages vs Themes. It’s a great discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of both methods. Comments are most welcome! To begin, make a copy [...]
Continue Reading →How to Overwrite Existing SharePoint Files Using a Feature
In this example, I will focus specifically on a scenario where I had to write code that would overwrite the CustomQuickAccess.xml file located within the masterpage gallery. Typically, up until this point, I had been dealing with simply uploading new files to a SharePoint library when a feature was activated. Simple enough, however, what happens [...]
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