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MOSS/WSS Search results (and dataviews): view the raw XML data

This may be obvious to many, but while studying for my MOSS programming exam, I learned that it’s pretty easy to get the actual XML from a search query via the user interface. One quick method is as follows: Access advanced search. Perform a s…

No CQWP for WSS? Try this…

I see that Eric Kraus was faced with a requirement normally met with a content query web part. The problem? He was in a pure WSS environment with no access to the CQWP. Rather than curling up in the fetal position (an urge I have to fight every d…

Brilliant and detailed view of content management API

Stefan Goßner has put together a terrific 4-part series on the SharePoint Content and Deployment API here. It offers a great overview and very good examples in code (C#). I first picked up this link from joris poelmans blog at http://jopx.blogs…

IsCurrentUserMemberOfGroup

The IsCurrentUserMemberOfGroup method of the SPWeb class can be used to check if the currently logged in user is a member of a group or not. This method will return a boolean value that will specify whether the current user is a member of the specified…

WSS, doc libs & lists, Calculated columns involving [Me]

Someone on the Internets was asking about how to create a calculated column on a list that would show a value formatted as "[User] – [Status] – [Location]" as in "Paul Galvin – Drinking [free] Beer – The Beach&#34…

Passed my 70-315 exam today!

I passed the "Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET" exam today in the great state of NJ at the venerable offices of SolarTech in Hasbrouck Heights. I put this exam up there…

SharePoint Designer, “Collect Data from User” and using those results.

Use the "Collect Data from User" action to create and assign a task to a user that prompts them for data. Among other things, I’ve used it to prompt a user to approve or reject a request and enter some comments. This action takes the …

Intermittent IE crashes when accessing documents in a WSS/MOSS document library

I’ve been plagued by this for 9 months and I see that people on the MSDN and Usenet forums have it too.l Sometimes, when accessing a word document (or other doc types) from a document library causes Internet Explorer to simply crash and go away …

Will the real XPath step forward?

Overview: Created a custom list that manages a content type with some dozen columns. Added it to a page and then via SPD, converted into a data view. Problem: My Xpath expression was returning blank for a column named "Current Position". …

How to troubleshoot mysterious SharePoint errors.

Overview: Debugging is difficult when developing custom functionality for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). The main culprit is that SharePoint normally surfaces very little diagnostic information on…