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• SharePoint InfoPath Submission as Anonymous User

  Creation of user submitted forms within web sites typically involves some HTML and JavaScript magic; to post data to a back end business storage or processing system. ASP.NET relies on form HTTP POST exclusively to implement the page post back mechanism, Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:31 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft InfoPath

• Groove 2007 - Disable the Annoying Popup Dialog

  Those of you using Groove 2007 are probably well aware of the annoying popup dialog that appears when the shift key is pressed more than once.  This issue is exacerbated when inside a remote desktop or terminal session.  Finally, I found a fix... Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:41 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office

• SharePoint Training

  Need some SharePoint (MOSS 2007) training?  Want to take advantage of MOSS 2007 development under Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008?  Never been to Norway? Then check out Sahil Malik's training program this September 1, 2008.  Details Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 1:46 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint, Visual Studio, Training

• Sysinternals Tools at Your Fingertips

  Check this out (I'm sure I'm not the first to blog this) - type the following UNC path into a file explorer on your pee-cee.... \\live.sysinternals.com\ Presto - every Sysinternals tool for you without ever having to download it. HTTP works too... http://live.sysinternals.com/ Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 12:26 AM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments Filed under: Tools

• Certified Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Developer

  It's now official, I am now certified as a MS-TS MOSS Application developer Next hurdle: MOSS configuration, and then .NET certification. Update 5/7/2008 - I took the WSS application exam today (for kicks) and passed. Share this post: Email it! | Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:47 AM by Rob Garrett | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint

• SPSecurityTrimmedControl

  This is one of those blog posts that I cannot take credit, but want to keep the information handy for a later time. The SPSecurityTrimmedControl shipped with WSSv3 is a very powerful control. It basically allows you to conditionally display content depending Read More... Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 3:24 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint

• Vista MCE and HD - At Last

  Recently - I finally decided to take the plunge with Vista Media Center Edition and High Definition Cable TV.... I've been a fan of MCE for some time, and up until February this year I'd been using Vista MCE with a standard analogue cable line into a Read More... Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 12:50 PM by Rob Garrett | 11 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, HDTV

• Prolific PL-2303 Driver - Vista x64

  I purchased a USB to RS232 Serial cable so I could hook up my GPS unit to my laptop and found out that installing the driver on Vista 64 was problematic. Disabling driver signing verification with the following command at an elevated prompt, followed Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:34 PM by Rob Garrett | 7 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista

• 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

• Visual Studio 2008

  I finally got around to installing VS2008 RTM today - wow what a marathon! 4 hours after I started, I finally had 2008 installed and working. I was running into problems installing Microsoft .NET 3.5 .NET Framework - both from VS2008 installer and when Read More... Posted Monday, December 31, 2007 12:16 AM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• SharePoint Designer and SharePoint Out of Sync

  If you ever find yourself in a situation where SharePoint Designer insists that a master page, page layout, or CSS file is checked out and the same file in the SharePoint Gallery is shown as checked in then there is a problem with your SPD web cache. Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 3:52 PM by Rob Garrett | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint

• MOSS - Save Publishing Site as Template

  Those of you who like to use the "Save Site as a Template" functionality in SharePoint might wonder where the option disappeared to; when the site you have in mind for your template is a Publishing Site (Web Content Management)... The official word from Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:46 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint