Using SharePoint site’s Regional Settings as your UICulture for WCM presence sites.

This post describes how I use resource files in SharePoint on the custom created publishing pages and DVWP web-parts. The solution provided uses the standard <%resources … %> tag and reads the culture from the regional settings then uses this culture to load the resource file from the APP_GLOBAL_RESOURCES and display the localized text. Therefore [...]

Exporting lists for features programmatically using SolGen’s API and reflection

This post describes how I re-use SharePoint Solution Generator’s API by reverse engineering the code using Reflector and calling using reflection. By using the SPListTemplateExporter provided by SharePoint Solution Generator we can export List definitions programmatically with necessary companion files and use them in my features for automatic build and packaging. Thus eliminating tedious error [...]

MS releases WSS/Office/MOSS service packs!

Find all the information you need here:http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dwise/archive/2007/12/11/sharepoint-service-pack-1-links.aspx

Fixing the ‘Failed on restarted (retrying)’ error with corrupt SPD workflows after restore from template

This post describes an issue of using custom created SharePoint designer workflows when trying to instantiate a previously saved site with SharePoint designer workflows. As a result of this limitation, SharePoint designer workflows won’t start due to incorrect versions of files. This post describes a technical plus pragmatic workaround and provides an utility to fix [...]

Customized _LAYOUTS folder on site collection basis

I’m not really a blog-linker but heck. This one needs to get in the open. Microsoft has now an supported method of customizing the _LAYOUTS folder on SharePoint! This was actually quite a common question I got from my clients. Read the full scoop here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944105/en-us.

Developer awareness and the bad reputation of ‘SharePoint Designer’ – A post to all developers.

This post ferociously tries to persuade standard .NET developers by offering them candy to give SharePoint a designer a chance, cause it is indeed a black-belt ninja. And you want it, you know you do.
As a contractor, I often run into the same thing over and over again. For instance, when an client need to [...]