Using Local Config Files with WSPBuilder
Using WSPBuilder is rather straight-forward and for most features the default configuration settings work fine. But what happens when you want to include custom CAS policies or change the default…
How To Properly Enumerate User Profiles using the SharePoint User Profile Web Service
Recently I had a need to pull all user profiles out of our SharePoint farm in order to push them into a middle-tier database that my team was building. Since…
ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods Performance Analysis
As we have previously seen, ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods are a great way to return the minimum amount of data required in an AJAX request. But the question remains, just…
ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods
ASP.NET contains some controls which makes adding AJAX features to your application rather easy. For example, Microsoft has provided us with the UpdatePanel. The UpdatePanel control allows you to partially…
Intro to the ASP.NET Charting Control
A few months back Microsoft released a free charting control for .NET. You can download the charting control and the plugin for VS2008 at the following links: Charting Control: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&DisplayLang=en…
WSPBuilder Folder Structure
WSPBuilder makes the process of building WSP files extremely simple as illustrated in a previous post. WSPBuilder supports many features including deploying files to the 12 hive as well as…
Intro to WSPBuilder
WSPBuilder is a tool for building web solution (WSP) files to deploy out to a SharePoint farm. It is free, open source, and available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder. It is…
XCode Intellisense Shortcut
One thing that I had been struggling with while developing software with XCode was the lack of an Intellisense-like feature that is found in Visual Studio. XCode does have a…
SPWeb.EnsureUser
Suppose you need to perform some actions on a SharePoint user such as role assignment, but you are unsure if the user exists within the site you are currently working…
Visual Studio Intellisense Shortcut
I have been using Visual Studio since version 6, but never took the time to actually find out what the shortcut to bring up an Intellisense dialog is. Turns out…