Dilhan's Tech Notes: 2009

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Forms Authentication in SharePoint

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx

Monday, October 26, 2009

Re-using SharePoint controls

http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Robin/archive/2009/07/03/re-using-sharepoint-controls.aspx

Friday, October 2, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/08/30/deep-dive-into-the-sharepoint-content-deployment-and-migration-api-part-1.aspx

Monday, August 17, 2009

SharePoint Planning Visio Diagrams

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Using Jquery with ASP.NET simple example.

download source code for this example download

Prerequisites

Download jquery java script library from http://jquery.com/

Steps

1. Create new web site

1. Add jquery java script file(s) to solution.

2. Create new page (ajax_page.aspx) and add following code.

C# ajax_page.aspx.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

public partial class ajax_page : System.Web.UI.Page

{

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

string sampleJSONObject =

"{\"FullName\" : \"Dilhan Jayathilaka\", \"Email\" : \"dilhan.jayathilaka@live.com\"}";

Response.Write(sampleJSONObject);

Response.End();

}

3. Add javascript to call ajax page using jquery.

default.aspx

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

// JQuery ajax call.

$.getJSON("ajax_page.aspx", function(json) {

$("#txtFullName").html(json.FullName);

$("#txtEmail").html(json.Email);

});

</script>

</head>

<body>

<div>

<br />

</div>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Open Source JQuery ASP.NET - (DJ - jQuery Web Contorls for ASP.NET)http://dj.codeplex.com/

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

.NET Software Engineers Tool Set

Documentation Tool

The patterns & practices: Documentation Tools project includes a Word 2007 template and tools that you can use to convert Word documents to HTML, Help 1.0 (CHM), and Help 2.0 (HxS). It also includes a tool that helps you manage your table of contents for large documentation sets. You can use these tools to create your own documentation guidance or take existing patterns & practices Word documents, modify the content, and then convert the content to your desired output.
download and read more : http://www.codeplex.com/doctools

Debug View

DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs.

download and read more : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

Web Debugging Proxy - Http Viewer

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

download and read more : http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

Monday, June 22, 2009

Copy Dll from GAC

go to command line and type following to copy DLL files from GAC.

For example if you want to copy System.Data.Linq.dll then you have to enter following,

cd WINDOWS\ASSEMBLY\GAC_MSIL\System.Data.Linq\

windows stores GAC assemblies at (windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\\__)

now type DIR to list all files/folders inside that folder.

Now you can see a folder(s) with version number and key.
(This is the place where actual dll file is saved inside GAC)

Monday, May 4, 2009

Add Top Link to MySite from Central Admin

you can add top links to all mysites,

1. Go to Central Administration Site
2. Go to Share Service Provider Settings
3. click on Personalization site links from User Profiles and My Sites group
4. Add new link with following pattern. ( http://yourportal/?# )
NOTE : dont forget "?#"

Friday, April 10, 2009

Screen casts

http://www.pluralsight.com

Thursday, April 2, 2009

SPGridView add menu

Link (good example): http://blogs.msdn.com/powlo/archive/2007/02/25/displaying-custom-data-through-sharepoint-lists-using-spgridview-and-spmenufield.aspx

Link : http://solutionizing.net/tag/spdatasource/

Another Example : http://www.thesug.org/blogs/patrickr/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Workflow Task forms (Multiple task forms)

LINK : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550938.aspx

Add an element to the Metadata element of the workflow template definition. This element is TaskID_FormURN Element (Workflow), where N represents the integer you assigned to that task type within the workflow. Set this element to the URN of the Office InfoPath 2007 form you want to use with this task. For example:


…
urn:schemas-adventureworks-com:workflow:ReviewRouting-Review
…

To differentiate the task types that your workflow creates, you assign each task type an integer identifier within that workflow. The first task type is 0, the second 1, and so on. This enables you to assign different content types, and different forms, to each task type. These task type identifiers must be unique only within a given workflow. For example, any workflow that creates a task has a task 0 task type; however, the task type does not have to be the same across all workflows.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

STSADM Useful Command syntax

All stsadm commands : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262643.aspx
Features and solutions : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263231.aspx

WSS And MOSS Updates

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Single Site Collection or Multiple Site Collections

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200804/ij_04_07_08a.html

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Customizing a SharePoint site in your Web browser

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

WSS 3.0 Object Dispose Pattern

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) have some gotchas with serious implications that every SharePoint application developer needs to be intimately familiar with before deploying into production MOSS 2007 farms. In particular, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite , Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb , and the often overlooked (MOSS 2007) Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing objects need to be carefully examined and disposed of properly in order to avoid potential memory leaks. My original objective with this blog post was to consolidate several different reliable sources compiled by Microsoft's top Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) into a Uber-Dispose quick reference which could be used to increase developer awareness of the current Microsoft Guidance. I’ve been working closely with the SharePoint Product Group as well as the top Microsoft Support and Services SME’s to help carve out the information you see here. I plan to keep this blog post updated with the latest official guidance from Microsoft and while there are more verbose resources available elsewhere the primary objective is to provide lots of samples in a quick reference format. Pre-requisites: The intended audience for this guidance is a seasoned .NET developer who currently is or will be developing custom SharePoint solutions with Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Read More http://blogs.msdn.com/rogerla/archive/2008/02/12/sharepoint-2007-and-wss-3-0-dispose-patterns-by-example.aspx

Friday, March 6, 2009

Helpful Links - Sharepoint Branding

Styles XSL
Connecting the CQWP without changing ItemStyle.xsl

Programmatically Working with ListViewWebPart using Non-Default View (GetUncustomizedViewByBaseViewId)

Webpart Styles (CSS)

Webpart Custom CSS Guide

CSS Reference

How to apply CSS only to given Webpart

Branding Posts Collection

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (SPDiag)

Overview

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains the ability to diagnose performance issues, perform bulk operations on site collections, an Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after the URL for a Web application has been changed, and a User Profile Replication Engine tool.

New Features:
The SharePoint Diagnostics tool provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint Server performance issues. Use the tool to collect data from performance counters, ULS log files, IIS log files, event logs, and WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), and then display and analyze the data in snapshots and custom reports.
The setup program is updated to work gracefully with User Access Control. You no longer need to manually run as administrator. See the following documentation on TechNet regarding use of the toolkit:

SharePoint Administration Toolkit: SPDiag Tool (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141204)

Information for farm administrators about Batch Site Manager, User Profile Replication Engine, and the updatealert operation for the Stsadm command-line tool can be found in SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Office SharePoint Server) and SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Windows SharePoint Services).

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Dot Net 3.5 Poster

Please click following links to download Dot Net Posters in PDF format,

Dot Net 3.5 Poster (PDF)

Dot Net 4.0 Poster (PDF)

Pages