To get access to the correct SPSite entity from a webpart use the SPContext.Current where you have access to both the current site and web.

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Visual Studio extentions for WSS, or VSeWSS for short, is a toolkit developed by Microsoft for creating SharePoint functionality and features using Visual Studio. The toolkit is available for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

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To find associated groups in code you can either use the AssociatedGroups collection or access the individual groups as AssociatedOwnerGroup, AssociatedMemberGroup, or AssociatedVisitorGroup of an SPWeb object:

SPGroup owners = this.Web.AssociatedOwnerGroup;
SPGroup members = this.Web.AssociatedMemberGroup;
SPGroup visitors = this.Web.AssociatedVisitorGroup;

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An associated group in SharePoint refers to the groups that are associated with the default roles in a SharePoint site. In SharePoint v3 these groups are Owners, Members, and Visitor. The groups are created by default when you create a new site collection. When you create a site inside an existing site collection the groups are created automatically if you select to not inherit permissions from the parent site.

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The only column to which you can add a link on the Create page is the Web Pages column. To add a link there, use a CustomAction feature with Location=”Microsoft.SharePoint.Create” and a GroupId=”WebPages”:

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To deploy a workflow in SharePoint you use a feature. The feature should contain an elements file which points to the workflow to deploy. Here is a sample elements.xml file:

 <Elements xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/“>
  <Workflow
       Name=”Workflow name”
       Description=”Workflow description”
       Id=”GUID”
       CodeBesideClass=”Namespace.Workflowclass”
       CodeBesideAssembly=”ProjectName, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=publicKeyToken”
       StatusUrl=”_layouts/WrkStat.aspx”>
    <Categories/>
    <MetaData>
    </MetaData>
  </Workflow>
</Elements>

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To get a list of all subsites in a site you can run the following pattern:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“[YOUR SITE COLLECTION URL]“))
{
    using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
    {
        foreach (SPWeb subWeb in web.Webs)
        {
            // Do your thing…
        }
    }
}

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The number of questions you can have in a survey varies by question type. To complicate matters you can also only have a limited number from a given question type group. The groups are:

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To find the strong name of an assembly you have several options. If the assembly has been deployed to the global assembly cache, or GAC, you can open the assembly in the GAC (c:\Windows\Assembly) and view its properties.

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To add a feature with a feature receiver event handler your feature.xml file needs to have ReceiverAssembly and ReceiverClass added to the Feature element

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