It is time to take a break from these daily tips for the summer. So far, you’ve gotten 62 tips every weekday, so I will leave you with the best tip so far:
SharePoint of the Day #63: Take a break. Enjoy summer. Come back in August, I know I will.
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This post was written by spotd on June 26, 2009
A lot of SharePoint object has a property bag, in which you can store custom properties in the form of a hashtable.
For example, you can store custom site settings for custom applications in the SPWeb.Properties bag.
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This post was written by spotd on June 23, 2009
When creating your own site definitions you can set the ProvisionAssembly and ProvisionClass to have .NET code fired when a new site is created. your class should inherit from the SPWebProvisioningProvider class.
This is useful for example if you want to create a site hierarchy as part of the site creation. In MOSS, the Publishing [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 19, 2009
When you are creating a custom site definition you can set the ExecuteUrl of the onet.xml Project element to a site-relative URL. When users create new sites from the definition they will be sent to the ExecuteUrl instead of the home page when the site is first created.
You can use this to send your users [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 16, 2009
An SPWeb object has two content type collections, AvailableContentTypes and ContentTypes. The AvailableContentTypes is read-only, though, so if you are updating content types through code, retrieve the content type from the ContenTypes collection.
You can learn more about content types in USP Journal Volume 1, Issue 2
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This post was written by spotd on June 12, 2009
When you add a site content type to a list you are creating a copy of the content type for the list. This means you can make changes to the list content type without affecting the site content type.
This also means that if you update the site content type and do not opt to apply [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 10, 2009
Never uninstall a solution containing a custom field type if you have created site columns from that field type. This will cause your site columns page to crash and there will be no way to fix the error except by reinstalling the solution.
You can learn more about SharePoint custom field types in USP Journal Volume [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 8, 2009