Cloud Solution Architect - App Dev
SharePoint state machine workflow : some issues and work-arounds
In this post I am giving some possible issues that you may face while working with state machine...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 04/30/2009
Things to remember while creating custom content types through feature.
Sometimes you may face an issue that, once you create new content type it will not display it in the...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 03/31/2009
Issue with SharePoint designer workflow to start under System Acccount.
If you create a workflow in SharePoint designer and if you use choose “When create a project, auto...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 03/31/2009
Develop a youtube kind of site in SharePoint - PKS !
Do you want to create a youtube like site in your company with some cool look an feel and with short...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 02/01/2009
How to create a custom Delegate Control with VSeWSS 1.3
In this post you can see how we can develop and deploy a custom delegate control using VSeWSS 1.3....
Author: sowmyancs Date: 02/01/2009
How to customize an out of the box Delegate Control with VSeWSS 1.3
In this post you can see how we can develop and deploy an application to customize...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 01/31/2009
Three cool things for SharePoint developers....
Microsoft has released 3 cool things for SharePoint develoepers recently. 1. SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 01/31/2009
Error: New instances of this workflow template are currently disallowed.
Sometimes we may get this error whenever we re-install the workflow after doing some changes. It may...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 11/15/2008
Customize the QuickLaunch menu and show it on top of the site as TopNavigation menu
Once I got an interesting question from our internal discussions about whether we can show the...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 11/14/2008
How to create a webpart with chrome type
If we want to customize the layout a webpart – say don’t want the border and title, or only need...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 11/14/2008
How to find out the storage space allocation details a site through code.
SharePoint has a cool and great facility called Quota templates. In order to get this facility in...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 11/14/2008
Work-around to render the custom field in list view
Once I got a request from one of colleagues to create custom button field which will kick off a...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 11/13/2008
Integration of Oracle Access Manager with SharePoint webapplications
Recently I had worked with an interesting case in which customer was using Oracle Access Manager...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 11/12/2008
Pull the information about all the subsites under a root site collection
Here I am giving a sample code which will iterate all the subsites of a root site collection and...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 10/28/2008
Best Practices: SharePoint Object Model for Performance Tuning
I am writing this post because of being inspired by couple of performance related cases that I had...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 10/26/2008
Feature Activation Dependency with Hidden Features !
A Feature activation dependency expresses a requirement in the relationship between two Features....
Author: sowmyancs Date: 10/06/2008
Programmatically rename a file inside a SharePoint document library
We can’t rename a file using file property SPFile.Name, it will say "Property or indexer...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 10/02/2008
Programmatically retrieve the items in a list based on the current user
We can accomplish this requirement by using SPQuery. This sample code I have developed for taking...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 10/01/2008
How we can work with output cache programmatically ?
Once I got an interesting question from one of our discussion lists about how we can enable output...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 10/01/2008
All available SharePoint service packs, patches and related information !
As all of us know, there are different service packs and patches available for all SharePoint...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 09/23/2008
MCMS 2002 to MOSS migration issue : Leaf names are not unique
Unfortunately MCMS 2002 Site Manager doesn’t allow you to rename the postings or resource gallery...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 09/10/2008
A possible usage of People.asmx and UserGroup.asmx and Lists.asmx
Once I got a requirement to add values to the created by & modified by columns through a web...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 09/10/2008
Some cool functionalities of UserGroup.asmx webservice
SharePoint provides more than 21 out-of-the-box web services to do various functionalities. I have...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 09/09/2008
Add 1000 folders with unique permission in a List
Once one of my friends in our SharePoint admin team got a requirement to test some permission...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 09/09/2008
How we can retrieve Discussion Topics (items) from a Discussion List ?
Whenever we try to access the items (discussion topics) in a discussion list it will return 0 ,...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 08/14/2008
How to take out the dlls from GAC ?
Once I had a need to see the contents of an out-of-the-box SharePoint assembly (which was installed...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 08/14/2008
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges - an important point while using it in web context
Normally we will use SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges() to execute some code that has to be run...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 08/13/2008
"Value does not fall within the expected range" - while accessing publishing portal pages
This issue may occur because of any one of the following causes. · This issue occurs if there is a...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 08/05/2008
How to enable users to download infected files when a download scan that is performed by using anti-virus software is disabled?
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAntivirusSettings.AllowQuarantinedFileDownload This particular...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 07/10/2008
"File has caused an error and cannot be imported to the database" - MCMS 2002
Sometimes, whenever we try to upload any document (PDF, Image etc – with larger size) to the...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 07/04/2008
How to show task creator's & modifier's name instead of "System Account" in the Task Library
Whenever we create a SharePoint site we will get a default list called “Tasks”....
Author: sowmyancs Date: 06/20/2008
How to pull the metadata information of a folder in SharePoint Portal server 2001 dashboard through code
In this post we can see how we can pull some metadata information of a folder in a SharePoint portal...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 06/13/2008
How to create a custom list with custom views based upon a custom list definition
Once I have got a customer request to create custom lists with custom views, not through custom code...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 06/13/2008
Update "Request Access Email" of all the sites in a Farm in a single shot ! (SharePoint server 2003)
Recently I got a customer request and their requirement was to update the “Request Access...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 06/03/2008
Create a webpart which will allow us to do some IO operations with the files and folders in client
We all were using the FileInfo, DirectoryInfo & DriveInfo classes coming under System.IO...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 06/02/2008
How we can create documents inside a document library based upon the content type’s document template?
Before starting the coding, let us have a look at the storage location of documents whenever we add...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/30/2008
Issue with the WebPartManager class while adding webparts dynamically to a specific webpart zone
Once I got a case in which my customer wanted to create a webpart which will allow them to add some...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/29/2008
Issue with customizing default.aspx page through Feature Stapler
What is feature stapling and how we will implement it in WSS 3.0? You can use Feature stapling to...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/29/2008
How we can retrieve the metadata information of a current approved version of a list item.
Consider you want to get the metadata information of an item’s current approved version. For getting...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/28/2008
Update email addresses of all users in all sites in a SharePoint Farm in a single shot (code sample for both V2 & V3)
Recently I got a case from one of customer and their requirement was, since their domain for the...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/28/2008
Important point that we need to remember while creating a webpart to render a PeopleEditor control with default values
Consider you have requirement to create a webpart which will render a PeopleEditor control with some...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/28/2008
Create a tool or an interface to delete the Audit log from Content DB of an auditing enabled SharePoint site
Before starting this post, I would like to share an information about this facility in SharePoint....
Author: sowmyancs Date: 05/28/2008
customization of core.js file in SharePoint
If any situation you want to customize the out-of-the-box Core.JS file and if you customized that...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 04/01/2008
Rename a File in a SharePoint document library through object model
Following code will do that functionality. Like how we are renaming a file through UI, we have to...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 04/01/2008
“Server Error: Feature {GUID} is not installed in this farm and cannot be added to this scope”
Sometimes, you may get the above error while trying to activate the installed custom feature in your...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 04/01/2008
Exception: Absolute path information is required
If a webapplication with relative path was created and not provisioned, it stops the user from...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 04/01/2008
SPException: This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited
Once, I had faced a strange issue with one of my custom workflow which I had developed using Visual...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 03/25/2008
Customization of Title field in Picture Library
How we can make Title field as required in Picture libraries:- A picture library is created based...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 03/25/2008
Creating a read-only field with default value in a SharePoint list
Whenever we create a column with type “Single line of text” in SharePoint lists we will get an...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 03/25/2008
Can we get the HTTPContext in custom event handlers in SharePoint ?
Yes, but not everywhere. Means, we will get the HTTPContext from the initial call of the base class...
Author: sowmyancs Date: 03/24/2008