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 [...]
Archive for January, 2008
SharePoint Identity
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Custom XML Feeds in IE7
Posted in Applications, Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft Internet Explorer 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 [...]
SharePoint Custom Content & Structure Report
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint 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 [...]
"Submit" ASP.NET and SharePoint
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged ASP.NET, Microsoft SharePoint 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 [...]
