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Archive for January, 2008

SharePoint Identity

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »

SharePoint user identity is sometimes confusing for developers…. When connecting to external resources (like a SQL database via BDC) what user identity does SharePoint use?  How does SharePoint impersonate when using forms-based authentication? What’s the difference between a Windows user and a WSS User? What is SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges? It’s questions like those above the can often [...]

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Custom XML Feeds in IE7

Posted in Applications, Everything, Software Development, tagged on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I often find myself writing custom XML generators in ASP.NET using Http Handlers.  To test my code I want to open my browser and render the XML – naturally.  In the days of IE6 all was good – I could render the XML and Internet Explorer would show me a nicely formatted view of my [...]

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SharePoint Custom Content & Structure Report

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I came across some really cool functionality in SharePoint 2007 today….  One of my clients has a deep hierarchy of sites and pages maintained in SharePoint – this hierarchy drives content management for their web site.  Most of the publishing pages on their site have an embedded boolean field, called “Appear on Home Page” as [...]

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"Submit" ASP.NET and SharePoint

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

One of my developers and I ran into an interesting problem today – we’d migrated a web site over to SharePoint 2007 (using a popular content migration tool) and found that all page postback calls in SharePoint were giving JavaScript errors, specifically: Object doesn’t support property or method. Turns out that our master page and page [...]

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