Early last year I was involved in developing a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based Intranet for the Ministry of Transport. This post explains how we utilised the tagging capabilities provided by MOSS to create this award winning Intran...

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If you are using the SharePoint object model to return list items, the items are security trimmed based on the rights of the user running the code. In most cases this is great, you don’t have to do any manipulation of the items returned from CAML ...

Mark Jones has a great article on SharePoint 2007 development and engineering practices that offers some real world learning’s from SharePoint projects. The article is based on his experiences on three MOSS projects and offers valuable insight in ...

Debugging in WSS 3.0 or MOSS is similar to debugging a standard ASP.NET application but there are several differences that can catch you out. In this post I will go through some of the basic techniques you can use to get more information than the “A...

Another great white paper for developers and anyone else dealing with large lists in SharePoint, the recently released Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007  white paper provides a great comparison of the query methods availabl...

This post shows how you can easily view the XML that is used in an XSL transform, so you can see the elements that you can use in the display.   I'm a big fan of using XSLT for presentation, so it is great to see that many of the web parts tha...

Every now and then I want to populate a SharePoint document library with files for testing purposes. To do this I have created a little console app that will take a template file and upload it x number of times to a document library, generating a ...