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Another Hack's SharePoint Experiences

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  • Tip o' the day: Getting the Content database information of a specific site

    Here's a way to get the server and database name of the content database that a site belongs to using C#: using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administrator; public class Test { private static SPGlobalAdmin oGlobAdmin = new SPGlobalAdmin...

  • Alerts

    Anyone ever notice a common practice with Microsoft: how they make something that is ALMOST useful, but stop right at the place where they are juuust at the cusp of something being great and just make it OK? It's something that we notice here at my...

  • SharePoint Database/List Best Practices???

    Anyone out there have a reference to what the best practices for programming SharePoint are? Specifically, how much normalization one should use in their database/lists? Here's my scenario: I'd like to create a Time Off Request and Reporting application...

  • SMigrate Bug

    I think I found a bug in using SMigrate to move a site - it's only a minor one. I'm putting it here because I'm not sure where to submit bugs to Microsoft anymore, and I'm not willing to spend an hour to figure it out. Here's the scenario...

  • Starting to feel constricted...

    I'm starting to feel pretty constricted by SharePoint. There's a lot of little things that I'd like to customize that you just can't with SharePoint right out of the box. For instance, I've gotten requests to make attachments open...

  • Upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 and Sharepoint

    This is actually a problem with the Windows upgrade, but nonetheless the problem manifested itself while trying to install the sharepoint central database. I had a development computer that was running Windows 2000 Server. I wanted to run SharePoint and...

  • Microsoft and the CSS demons

    Like I've mentioned before, I've customized a lot of my sharepoint site by changing the style sheet and backend standard graphics. Unfortunately, the limitation is that you have to rely on Microsoft to properly assign stylesheet classes properly...

  • Alright! Got the listeners to work!

    Addendum: People have been asking me why I wanted to do this. I explained it in a previous blog (I think) but here's the short version: I have an Issues List for internal system operations. If a phone goes down, or a computer dies, a user could enter...

  • Setting up JavaScript listeners

    UPDATE: I got this to work - see the next post! So I'm trying to set up a listener on my Issues list. It's not going well. Microsoft looks to be using some kind of custom drop down box, rather than a stardard select. It's killing me. When...

  • SQL Frustrations

    Well, I blew it already on my WSS server. I installed WSS on it before I installed SQL Server, so it installed the MSDE database instead. Well, I tried to upgrade it to SQL Server 2000, SP 3, but I couldn't get it to upgrade correctly. Instead of...

  • So why the heck are you blogging?

    You know, that's probably the first question that's on your mind. It would be for me, too. Well, this post will hopefully explain my purpose in setting up this blog. I'm pretty much new to SharePoint - WSS 2003 is the only one I've used...
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