While working on a web part for a client’s MOSS public web site I discovered some strange behavior regarding GUID’s embedded in query string arguments.  My web part, a simple viewer that replaces the functionality of the old ‘txtlstvw’ page from SharePoint 2003, takes the GUID of a list and an item ID as query string […]

The next DFW SharePoint Community meeting is being held at the Microsoft campus in Las Colinas, Texas on August 21st.  This month Matthew Ordish, a Microsoft Office Platform Technology Specialist, will discuss Office Business Applications (OBA’s).  There is a lot of cood content in this presentation that is relevant to the SharePoint Community so don’t […]

It doesn’t take long for anyone who does client-side coding in SharePoint to figure out that the trusty ol’ getElementById() method just ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Sure, it works fine in standard ASP.NET pages but in SharePoint all that pretty client-side code goes right out the window.  Just what is going on […]

Uber SharePointer Bob Fox tagged me in the Five Things I Can’t Live Without game.  So here are the five things on my list:   1. I’m going with Bob on this one – my family.  I have the world’s best wife, who puts up with all my nonsense, late hours, constant travelling, and this […]

Finally.  FINALLY.  F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!  For years I’ve been telling everyone who would listen about the negative consequences of performing looping operations in the object model (OM) against large data sets.  Our internal testing proved this to be the case.  Our customer’s experiences validated our own results.  And just plain common sense said this was a B-A-D […]

July is usually considered a holiday month, especially for our British friends, but there are still some good community events to put on the calendar:   July 17  DFW SharePoint Community   Location: Microsoft Las Colinas Campus Presentation: Ontolica Search for SharePoint    As a side note, I have recently been invited to join the advisory […]

Sean just posted a new version of our web part user control wrapper with full Ajax support for download.  This will allow you to host User Controls within an update panel for AJAX-like functionaility with SharePoint.  Get it here.  Instructions for deploying the web part are also in the blog post in case you haven’t done […]

Houston, we’ve got a problem.  It seems that there are quite a few settings in the ShaerPoint UI that are not supported in the Object Model.  Just yesterday, Sean Skinner discovered that when creating WSS sites programmatically the options to enable the navigation menus were missing.  A few weeks back, a client sent me an email […]

People are always asking me which SharePoint blogs they should be reading.  The answer, of course, is all of them!  So don’t wait around, fire up that RSS reader and go get the BIG LIST Mark Kruger has compiled.

A while back I posted a tip about hiding grouped by headers in list views.  These are the content separators that appear at the top of a group of list items and have a +/- image for expanding/collapsing the group, the title of the group column, a colon and the group item name, like so:   […]