Archive for July, 2008

Canberra SharePoint User Group – August 2008 – featuring … me!

I guess I have a slightly bias opinion when it comes to this months presenter at the Canberra SharePoint user group, seeing as it is me! But it really should be a great presentation, here is the blurb from the web site: This month Brian Farnhill from Unique World will be discussing site definitions in [ READ MORE ]

AJAX UpdatePanel and scrolling DIV tags – keep scroll position on post back

  • July 31st, 2008
  • Posted in ASP.NET

I gotta say that I am pretty proud of the fact that I got this one to work, possibly not the cleanest solution to the problem but it works pretty well. The problem was that we have a custom ASP.NET control that uses an UpdatePanel, which has a DIV tag inside of it that scrolls [ READ MORE ]

Issues installing Office 2007 on a server 2008 VPC

I am finishing up creating a new virtual PC image that I will use as a base for my development work in future. The load looks something like this: Windows Server 2008 MOSS 2007 (With SP1 and July 2008 infrastructure update) Office Ultimate 2007 SharePoint Designer 2007 Visual Studio 2008 SQL Server 2005 WSPBuilder SharePoint [ READ MORE ]

When picture library thumbnail view and other functions do no work

This one came up in my current project, basically what we had found was that the views we had created in our picture libraries were not working as expected. Nothing happened when you would select "details" "thumbnail" or "filmstrip" view options, and you also couldn’t select any pictures in the library as the check boxes [ READ MORE ]

Displaying detailed error information in SharePoint

If you are a SharePoint developer, you will no doubt have come across the "an unknown error has occurred" or "File not found" errors, realised how generic they are and gone hunting through the 12 hive logs folder to find out exactly what actually went wrong, the whole time cursing to yourself that those errors [ READ MORE ]

Extending the ASP.NET TreeView control

  • July 22nd, 2008
  • Posted in ASP.NET

This is something that is very cool once you have a play around with it. The scenario we had was we were using a TreeView control to create a menu for the user, and we needed to have a JavaScript run when a user checks a checkbox in the nodes. The JavaScript needed a particular [ READ MORE ]

Infrastructure update now available for Office servers

Yesterday a new update was made available for most of the Office server products. This infrastructure update as they are calling it, is a bit more than a regular service pack. It does contain a lot of fixes and boosts performance, but as for as MOSS is concerned it brings some new functionality to the [ READ MORE ]

Opening and closing documents in Word 2003 causes it to crash

  • July 15th, 2008
  • Posted in Office

At the moment I am working on some VSTO add-ins for office 2003 that involve closing a document and then re-opening it from a different location (in the case closing a local copy and the opening it from a SharePoint site once some processes have run). I found the code to do this is all [ READ MORE ]

SPWeb.EnsureUser gives access denied

WHen you are going to add permissions to a user in a SharePoint site in code, it is a good idea to get the SPUser object through SPWeb.EnsureUser(). This method will check if the user exists in the web, and if they don’t it will add them. This seems like a pretty good concept, but [ READ MORE ]

Why can’t I create a page?

This might seem kind of simple when you look at it, but it had a colleague of mine stumped for a little while today so I thought I would post about it here just on the off chance someone else has the same problem. The scenario is that a user who has full control of [ READ MORE ]

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