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In the last couple of posts we have looked at creating our own custom authentication provider. We also looked at using this with a MOSS2007 infrastructure. In this post we will look at adding the “Role Provider” functionality to this provider. If you...

Today I got a strange error while working with generic lists and the Find method. I was supplying an anonymous delegate as predicate which resulted in the following error:"cannot convert from 'anonymous method' to 'System.Predicate<Whatever>'"....

dglover had a post with useful links on InfoPath: InfoPath Team Blog Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 InfoPath Developer Portal - Check out the linked Creating Browser Enabled Forms With InfoPath 2007 Channel 9 screencast. And the Creating...

via bsimser   Thanks to everyone who turned out for the security webcast today on SharePoint. We had about 60-70 people on the webcast and I had a fun time giving it. A large part of the webcast was around the plugin authentication framework...

via gcarava   I usually get asked for “real world” examples of how SharePoint technology is being utilized to solve real problems.  Go check this out:   Facilitating Effective Employee Reviews at Microsoft This is an example...

          I found the following articles from MSDN for MOSS 2007. I hope it would helpful to you to explore MOSS 2007.   1. Operations for Office SharePoint Server 2007 2. Deployment for Office SharePoint...

  Technet has a great wealth of information for ITPros on MOSS and WSS planning. I was looking for capacity planning information for one our forthcoming projects on Codeplex There is an interesting piece on Planning Enterprise Content Storage There...

Following blog post by Shane Young contains details of installing office web parts in SharePoint v3.0. I posted a similar solution a couple of months ago but this one is more detailed: http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2006/09/02/How-to-manually-install-the-Office-Web-Parts-in-SharePoint-v3.asp...

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/12/12/announcing-the-beta-exams-for-mcts-application-development-70-542-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-70-541-for-windows-sharepoint-server-3-0.aspx...

It is possible to use your ASP.NET web parts in your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) application simply by exporting them to create .webpart files. .Webpart files are simply XML files that contains property values, state data, assembly or source file...

In this article: • Planning worksheets by task if(typeof(IsPrinterFriendly) != "undefined") { var l = "/Office/en-us/library/49cf7edd-14ee-445b-8ab0-1d1339f2435f1033.mspx#section1"; var nl; var c = l.charAt(0); var...

<Quote Src="SoftwareMaker"> The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the premier definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform, returns in 2007 after a short 2 year break ... ... and its back in Los...

The last couple of days I havn't came across anything interesting to blog about, since I've been busy with alot of other projects. However, I recently stumbled into a blogpost linking to an application called SharePoint Inspector, which is described below....

OMG! I could not believe this, when I read about the new SharePoint training option - offline. This is indeed a great move, especially for IT professionals outside of USA. ShareSquared are offering distance learning for SharePoint 2007. I made a quick...

So in the last post we looked at creating the custom provider and adding it to the GAC. In this post we will look at accessing this from SharePoint 2007. To begin with I have created an Intranet Portal called “http://custom.labs.demo.local”. I have also...

Last week has been a good week for me because it has been the first full week that I’ve been exposed to SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) GTM outside of my company.  There has been so many things that I have learned that I can’t even start explain.  The...

Following code shows how to use SQL search for UserProfile properties in SPS 2003. In the code here, I am searching for AccountName, FirstName, LastName, UserName, PreferredName by default. In addition, we are searching for all the public properties that...

  Recently when I was working on a web part, I ran across a small problem. I was writing a custom ToolPart Panes and my code seemed to work properly, but when I tried viewing my ToolPart it would appear all weird on the screen. I was at some point...

  In the same web part that I was building, I had to come up with a way to generate a CheckBox List in a ToolPart Pane. All the search I performed on "Google" showed me how to implement a Textbox control in ToolPart pane and some showed how to implement...

Hi Everyone, Here I am opening a discussion about the connectable web part. As we know that in WSS 3.0 the architecture is changed. Is any body tried that if provider web part is designed in WSS 2.0 and consumer web part is designed in WSS 3.0 will...

A nice article from MSDN magazine A Tour of Windows Workflow Activities...

Summary Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile Windows Server technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to help increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. Windows SharePoint Services provides...

At my current project we ran into some configuration problems when getting SharePoint to work with the LDAP Membership provider. We are using Dirx as the directory service. After configuring the settings as described in various articles,...

In my previous post, I showed in XML definition way, how to define custom columns in site column collection, create a new content type to reference these columns, and add the content type to document library definition. This thread shows how to achieve...

** PDF Version attached ** So I was sitting the other day with a customer talking about authentication models for MOSS2007. During the presentation we talked about using Active Directory, LDAP and standard ASP.NET SQL Authentication. During the discussions...