Karine Bosch’s blog post on the SharePoint DateTimeControl is really great for understanding how to use this control in your custom web parts or application pages. It’s probably one of the only really good resources out there on this control. So to summarize, the SelectedDate property let’s us know what date the user has selected. [...]
Continue Reading →Building a Cloneable SharePoint 2007 Environment with VMWare Fusion
I’ve got a backlog of articles that are in draft mode, waiting to be proof read and published, but this particular topic I wanted to take a minute and write about. There is a whole slew of information out there for the best ways to create a Cloneable SharePoint 2007 Environment. Why might you want [...]
Continue Reading →How to Determine Entity Type in PeopleEditor Control
Because I don’t write nearly enough on this topic, I figured why not add another post about the splendid PeopleEditor control for SharePoint. Actually, these posts happen to be among my most popular. So popular in fact, that they are constantly being stolen and posted on other blogs without so much as a courtesy ping [...]
Continue Reading →How to Add Column Descriptions to Your Custom Forms
This is a quick overview on how to add a column’s description to your custom edit and disp forms in SharePoint 2007. List Name: Projects Column Name: Status Column Type: Lookup Column Description: “Choose the status for this current project.” To add a column to a form and display it’s contents, it’s pretty straight forward: [...]
Continue Reading →Hide Columns in SharePoint New, Edit and Disp Forms
Hiding columns in SharePoint is nothing new really, there have been several articles written on this topic. The approach for doing this, however, does inspire some debate in terms of what the best practice is. Let’s say we can agree that there are three ways to get this done: Using the built in content types [...]
Continue Reading →Access to table dbo.Versions is blocked because the signature is not valid
Alright, today’s blog post is going to be a bit infrastructure related. More specifically, I’d like to document an issue we encountered recently trying to do a restore from a production server to one of our development boxes. We do this often to keep our development data fresh and in sync with production, otherwise it [...]
Continue Reading →Invalid Data Updating List Item – FREE TSHIRT GIVEAWAY
If you’re like me and you do a fair bit of object model programming, you’ve likely seen this error before. More specifically, the error is as follows: Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only. There are probably more [...]
Continue Reading →I’ll be attending the SharePoint Conference in October!
I’m very excited and I consider myself quite lucky to be able to attend the Microsoft SharePoint 2009 Conference in October. I’ve already been to a couple great conferences this year, but I am quite confident this will be a good one. I’m looking forward to seeing all that 2010 has to offer. If you [...]
Continue Reading →Custom SharePoint Workflows sendEmail.Body Character Limit
I’ve been working over the past few days with a custom workflow I’m building in Visual Studio 2005 that’s responsible for notifying users when specific criteria was met. Inside the workflow, I have a few sendEmail functions responsible for building the content within the email message: 1 2 sendEmail1.Body += "<font face=\"Arial\">This is the body [...]
Continue Reading →How To Programmatically Trigger a Custom Workflow
Triggering SharePoint workflows programmatically from within a custom built Visual Studio workflow is not difficult once you know where to look. Tony Testa wrote a great post on this very same thing that describes these concepts in more detail than I will — so go check that out if you haven’t already. I had to [...]
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