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03 July 2008
Newcastle SharePoint User Group
I'm heading over to Newcastle for the SharePoint User Group tonight. It's a whiteboard session on MOSS Architecture. Newcastle SharePoint User Group Hope to see you there if you are going. UPDATE.... Big thank you to John Timney (Cap Gemini), Brian English (Cap Gemini) and Phil Hunter (BT) for... Read More...
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06 May 2008
SUBST, GAC and SharePoint
Working with SharePoint, sometimes you just have to install assemblies to the GAC. An example of this I have had to deal with recently was writing a webpart to access methods in the UserProfileManager class. Debugging GAC installed assemblies can be a bit frustrating, hopefully the following steps will... Read More...
30 January 2008
Accessing User Profile Information in WSS 3.0
MOSS and WSS 3.0 handle user profiles differently. In MOSS, user profile information is stored centrally and can be shared across site collections. Profiles can be manipulated using the UserProfileManager class found in Microsoft.Office.Server.dll. Life just isn't the same when working with WSS 3... Read More...
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25 January 2008
SharePoint User Group - Newcastle
Big thank you to Penny Coventry and Steve Smith for presenting at the SharePoint User Group UK Newcastle meeting on Wednesday night. Both were excellent sessions. Penny gave an overview of SharePoint Designer , which if not already, will probably become your default tool for design and basic development... Read More...
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20 December 2007
SharePoint 2007 "Friendly" Error Messages
SharePoint 2007 displays a nice "friendly" error message when anything goes wrong. This "friendly" error message usually provides no useful information about why the error has occurred (sometimes you get an HRESULT). It may be friendly but isn't usually very helpful, not for a... Read More...
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