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I had a request today to create a link to a “Drop Folder” in SharePoint where people could drag their documents to for our Document Reviewers to review.
MSDN describes a solution (see “MSDN – About Web Folder Behaviors“) that is meant to work in browsers IE5 and later, but unfortunately it didn’t work in my [...]
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A poorly documented area of SharePoint 2007 is the use of the SQL Server Reporting Services (in SharePoint Integrated mode of course) to create reports. I have been working with the Lists web service (find it at http://your_moss_server_name/[sites/][site_name /]_vti_bin/Lists.asmx) to create my reports. Here are my “Best SharePoint Reporting Services [...]
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Recently I have been working creating a series of Site Definitions for one of my employer’s client’s. The tool of choice (the best of a bad bunch?) for this is the SharePoint Solution Generator 2008, bundled with the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The tool comes fitted with a few ‘gotchas’ [...]
Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test [...]
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SPChangeQuery is a great little function that queries the SharePoint change log for changes to site content. Be careful when using the SPChangeQuery on newly created sites as certain content may get picked up in your query that is garbage to you. This includes a bunch of “add” change types on lists that get initialized [...]
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