Archive for October, 2007

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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. [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

In this series of three posts, I will attempt to introduce working with the SharePoint Single Sign-On service from a more programming standpoint, and I will pepper in some of the administrative and configuration stuff because I haven't seen it covered very well at all, either on the web or in books. I will firstly [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

I am curious as to whether anyone has actually found a decent, flexible SharePoint host that allows SharePoint developers the level of use that would be required in order to have a formidable public development environment. I personally have never seen one, and I know, I might be kinda obnoxious with my demands (as I [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

There was a question in the SharePoint development newsgroups as to how someone might go about getting specific IIS settings when wanting to target an arbitrary SharePoint zone from which to query those settings. Fortunately, within the SharePoint object model, this is feasible using the GetIisSettingsWithFallBack method out of SPWebApplication. For example, this method is [...]