Rob Garrett - Blogs

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, familiar to all ASP.NET developers.  Developers manipulate form posted data using ...

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 (here). If Norway is a little too far to travel, I can also personally vouch for Ted ...

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.  

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 on the user’s permission. Thanks to Waldek for his post on conditional security trimming ...

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 their site have an embedded boolean field, called ''Appear on Home Page'' as part ...

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: Object doesn't support property or method. Turns out that our master page and page ...

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.  Attempting to check the file in through SPD gives the error: ''Cannot perform this ...

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 Microsoft is that this functionality is not supported for publishing sites and the option is ...

I'm sure I'm not the first and I'll not be the last to mention that SharePoint SP1 is now available - think of this post as Rob's own personal reminder.  If you know about this news then all is good, if not then you learnt something today. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx In ...

I shall be speaking at the SharePoint User's Group for DC (http://www.sugdc.org) on October 28, 2007.  If you're signed up then I hope to see you at the event, otherwise it is not too late to get your ticket:  http://www.sugdc.org/events/conference.aspx I shall be introducing the audience to Web Content Management in Microsoft Office ...