SharePoint Config

Fly Buys is New Zealand’s leading loyalty programme and is managed by Loyalty New Zealand. Fly Buys members receive points for shopping at participating stores, which they can then use to redeem a variety of rewards from coffee machines to television sets. The Fly Buys website allows members to search for rewards or participating companies, maintain their account information, as well as allowing Loyalty to maintain content and graphics for the site. Continue reading How we did it: Fly Buys website »

Following a busy few weeks the Fly Buys website I’ve been working on was launched last night. The site is built on MOSS and makes heavy use of the web content management features provided by the platform. Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting on some of the experiences I’ve had during the build process. Continue reading Fly Buys takes off »

If you are using the SharePoint object model to return list items, the items are security trimmed based on the rights of the user running the code. In most cases this is great, you don’t have to do any manipulation of the items returned from CAML queries to ensure users only see what they have access to. Continue reading Returning approved SharePoint list items from a console application »

Provoke took home top honours in Microsoft’s partner awards last week for the MOSS based intranet developed for the Ministry of Transport. The intranet won both the Business Productivity Solution award as well as the overall Partner Solution of the Year award that was decided from winners of all 12 categories. Continue reading MOSS intranet wins awards »

If you have an ASP.NET control that contains validation controls in the masterpage or page layout for a publishing site (an ASP.NET login control for example). When you try to edit and check in a publishing page you receive the following error.

This page contains content or formatting that is not valid. You can find more information in the affected sections. Continue reading ASP.NET validation controls prevent publishing pages from saving »

If you are referencing resources such as style sheets, images, JavaScript etc in a SharePoint environment you need to be careful to ensure that URLs are relative to the current site (or site collection) so that if sites are moved the references don’t break. For example if you are referencing a style sheet from a master page in a publishing site you will probably want the link to be relative to the site collection so that sites below the root still reference the style sheets at the top level. Continue reading Relative URLs in SharePoint »

Mark Jones has a great article on SharePoint 2007 development and engineering practices that offers some real world learning’s from SharePoint projects. The article is based on his experiences on three MOSS projects and offers valuable insight in what to look for in these types of project. Continue reading SharePoint development learning’s »

About two months ago we released the first version of the Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE). Although this was recommended for evaluation purposes only, it is great to see that several people have successfully managed to create their own themes and are using this on their production blogs. Continue reading Enhanced Blog Edition Update »

Debugging in WSS 3.0 or MOSS is similar to debugging a standard ASP.NET application but there are several differences that can catch you out. In this post I will go through some of the basic techniques you can use to get more information than the “An unexpected error has occurred” message. Continue reading Debugging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 »

Another great white paper for developers and anyone else dealing with large lists in SharePoint, the recently released Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 white paper provides a great comparison of the query methods available for SharePoint lists. Continue reading New SharePoint Whitepaper – Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 »