June 2006 - Posts

• SharePointKicks

  Bil Simser is bootstrapping a community publishing site. Kick it! Posted Jun 29 2006, 04:22 AM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• Unable to validate data

  Symptom: When performing a search on a WSS page that has been customized, the standard WSS error page displays with the message "Unable to validate data" Cause: The search box is rendered via the <SharePoint:ViewSearchForm> tag. In the customized pages, this tag was inside the <form runat="server"> tag Posted Jun 28 2006, 06:16 PM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

  A new Technical Article is online discussing the cases in which Dispose() should be called.  A must read for all SharePoint developers. Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects Posted Jun 15 2006, 10:58 AM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• IE Update breaks some pages

  One of the patches on June 13, 2006 is causing problems on some pages. A few pages to review to get up to speed and the work-around: InfoWorld's article KBase Article MSDN Technical Article with the work-around Posted Jun 15 2006, 04:59 AM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• Unclear on the concept

  InfoWorld posted an article describing some of the things that cause visitors to leave. One of those things -- flashing ads that distract the reader. On the page, I'm sure you can guess what I saw... Posted Jun 14 2006, 10:52 AM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• How to conditionally add web part to page?

  How would you address this scenario: I have a web part that displays information from a legacy system. The information is very important to that system's user community -- so much so that it deserves to be displayed on the home page (WSS, not SPS). However, the legacy system user community is about 25% of the organizations employees. This 25% is influential, and mostly technology averse. If the information applied to 100% (or somthing close to it) of the employees, then I would update the Shared View. But I would rather not subject 75% to an empty web part. And forcing the 25% to manually add the web part to their Personal View is a nonstarter. I encourage comments/questions on my blog site. Posted Jun 07 2006, 08:11 AM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments