There was a post in the newsgroups wondering how when constructing a custom field type how one might build a small generic validation function in order to verify the harvested user input. There is provided the SPField.GetValidatedString method, which is overridable, that can be used in order to achieve this since it will take the [...]

It is pretty easy to use JavaScript in your WebParts, and people that know me, know I frickin despise JavaScript. I really, really do. I know sometimes I have to use it, but I would prefer if it didn't exist, even though I might start warming up to our old friend as Orcas since it [...]

One of my friends today asked me why he couldn't run SharePoint on Linux because in a variety of times when I blog or write, I allude to the fact that SharePoint is basically an ASP.NET 2.0 application, which should be provided by Mono. While this is the case, I can think of several reasons [...]

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There was a small question in the SharePoint development newsgroups that alluded to whether it was possible to use the SharePoint WebPartPage and SPWebPartManager objects in order to construct a small iteration through all the WebParts that were placed within an arbitrary WebPart page in a SharePoint instance and search for a specific WebPart type. [...]