The real title of this post should: Users, Users Everywhere And Not A Single One Will Authenticate. Forms Based Authentication is an amazing feature that allows you to store users in one database and access them from another. It’s the…
Category: SharePoint
SharePoint Alerts
One of the great features of SharePoint is Alerts. Let’s say you have a lot of people storing a lot of documents in a lot of libraries in SharePoint. You want to know what’s going with the libraries and lists…
XML, SharePoint and the dreaded Hexadecimal Invalid Attribute
I run a site that uses SharePoint as a document repository and DotNetNuke as a viewer into that repository. Errors are not frequent, but it is a touchy system that needs a lot of babying. Microsoft is not fond of…
SharePoint 2010 : Modifying the Left Side Menu
As it turns out SharePoint has very few options for modifying the look and feel of the site. One of the major problems is the width of the left side navigation. In the Default Theme it’s set to 155 pixels…
SharePoint Custom Web Service Updates Not Found
Scenario: You’ve made updates to your custom web service and pushed them to the web server. You re-compile your project, but your changes aren’t available. Solution: The custom web service resides in the GAC. Along with compiling the project and…
The SharePoint Copy Service, DotNetNuke, and VB Haters
It seems like everything I work on these days is new technology and I guess there’s not a lot of love out there for VB.Net programmers. I spend a lot of time looking for code and it’s always in C#…