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• More on Manfiest.xml

  There are a ton of tools out there to create SharePoint solution packages (.wsp files) for you, but it is still a good idea to know what those tools are creating for you exactly. Sometimes, things don't always work right, and you may need to customize... Posted Sep 04 2008, 10:19 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Code Access Security, Deployment, Solution

• Speaking at Tulsa Tech Fest again

  Tulsa Tech Fest was a lot of fun last year and I am excited to be speaking at it again this year. This year, I will be giving a talk on Implementing Partial Trust in SharePoint . It should be a good talk in explaining how to create SharePoint solutions... Posted Sep 02 2008, 11:10 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Code Access Security, Presentations

• How to: Create a Group in SharePoint

  Today, I am continuing in my How to series of posts. According to the stats, they have been quite popular, so I will keep them coming. We are going to talk about how to create a SharePoint security group. A group (represented by SPGroup) is an internal... Posted Aug 25 2008, 01:24 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint

• SharePoint to API Translation Guide

  As anyone that has worked with SharePoint knows, there is next to zero correlation to what something is called in the SharePoint UI with what it is called in the SharePoint API. A lot of this is due to the fact that they changed the name for most everything... Posted Aug 21 2008, 05:16 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint

• The difference between .dwp and .webpart

  I have been doing some quite a bit of mentoring to new SharePoint developers lately and was asked the question of what the difference was between a .dwp and .webpart file and which one should be used. Yes, I know this is an intro topic but if you are... Posted Aug 21 2008, 04:50 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint

• Faceted Search 2.5 is much improved

  I was pleased to see that a new version of the Faceted Search web parts had come out recently. On my last couple of projects, the Faceted Search worked, but it didn't quite meat all the clients needs. Mainly it didn't work with fixed queries,... Posted Aug 14 2008, 01:44 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• To Web Part or not to Web Part?

  I am putting today's post out there in a hope of getting more of a feel for what the community does in regards to web parts. The question is when you need to write custom functionality on a SharePoint site (i.e.: a form, some fancy data binding code... Posted Aug 04 2008, 02:12 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint

• How to search your site columns with Enterprise Search

  I decided to go with an intro topic for Enterprise Search today. If you are like me, you often find yourself in a situation where you are doing ECM related activities such as creating custom content types that use site columns. This may present itself... Posted Jul 31 2008, 05:14 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• How to build your own SmartPart control

  Building a SmartPart type control really isn't all that complicated. On a project I did in the past, I came into a situation where I couldn't use the SmartPart. I needed specific functionality and unforutnately at the time, the source code for... Posted Jul 30 2008, 03:50 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Where did my horizontal line go in my search results after I installed the Infrastructure Update?

  I have been really enjoying the new features of the Infrastructure Update , but I noticed that something didn't look quite right about my search results. It finally occurred to me, that the horizontal line separating the description and the URL was... Posted Jul 22 2008, 01:10 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Infrastructure Update

• Infrastructure Update Configuration Fails if HOSTS file is missing

  I have been in the process of updating multiple MOSS development servers with the Infrastructure Update , and ran into an issue where the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard failed. The reason was that this particular server did... Posted Jul 21 2008, 08:50 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS

• How to: Query Search using the Web Service

  According to FeedBurner , my posts on querying Enterprise Search with the FullTextSqlQuery and KeywordQuery classes have been some of the most popular. So I thought, I would continue on these posts and explain how to do it using the web service. The SDK... Posted Jul 17 2008, 02:49 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS

• What's new with Enterprise Search with the Infrastructure Update

  Yesterday, the Infrastructure Update for Office SharePoint Server (as well as WSS and Project Server) was released. This update makes changes to content publishing as well as Enterprise Search. The install went smoothly. Just remember like the service... Posted Jul 16 2008, 02:50 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Passing a query string parameter to an InfoPath data source

  Recently, I wanted to create a simple InfoPath form that took a query string parameter (an id) and passed it to a secondary data source that called a web service. There may be a simpler solution to this, but I went with a programmatic solution. So, I... Posted Jul 14 2008, 02:01 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, InfoPath

• Exposing data from the BDC as a DataTable

  Recently, I wanted to bind some data from the BDC to an ASP.NET control (i.e. a GridView, ListView, or DropDownList). For what I needed a Business Data List web part just wouldn't cut it, so I decided to create something that I could bind to. I also... Posted Jul 09 2008, 01:07 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Business Data Catalog