Rob Garrett - Blogs

January 2008 - Posts

• SharePoint Identity

  SharePoint user identity is sometimes confusing for developers.... When connecting to external resources (like a SQL database via BDC) what user identity does SharePoint use? How does SharePoint impersonate when using forms-based authentication? What's Read More... Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 6:13 PM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments

• Custom XML Feeds in IE7

  I often find myself writing custom XML generators in ASP.NET using Http Handlers. To test my code I want to open my browser and render the XML - naturally. In the days of IE6 all was good - I could render the XML and Internet Explorer would show me a Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:10 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Internet Explorer

• SharePoint Custom Content & Structure Report

  I came across some really cool functionality in SharePoint 2007 today.... One of my clients has a deep hierarchy of sites and pages maintained in SharePoint - this hierarchy drives content management for their web site. Most of the publishing pages on Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:25 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint

• "Submit" ASP.NET and SharePoint

  One of my developers and I ran into an interesting problem today - we'd migrated a web site over to SharePoint 2007 (using a popular content migration tool) and found that all page postback calls in SharePoint were giving JavaScript errors, specifically: Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:23 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint, ASP.NET