SharePoint of the Day » Developer http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd Your daily dose of SharePoint - From Spot D Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Summer Vacation – See You in August http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #61 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-61 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-61#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-61 If you iterate through the AllWebs collection of a site collection you must remember to call Dispose() on the SPWeb objects you retrieve. Otherwise you will have a memory leak.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-61/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #60 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-60 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-60#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-60 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-60/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #58 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58 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 portal is set up using the ProvisionAssembly and ProvisionClass.

You can also optionally set the ProvisionData, which will be passed to the ProvisionClass. Here is some example code:

public class MySiteSetup : SPWebProvisioningProvider
{
public override void Provision(SPWebProvisioningProperties props)
{
string data = props.Data;
}
}

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58/feed 1 SharePoint of the Day #57 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57 You can check the SPWeb.LastItemModifiedDate property to see when something was last changed in a site.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #55 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55 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 to a custom page to setup more advanced features of your site.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55/feed 2 SharePoint of the Day #53 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-53 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-53#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-53 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-52/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #51 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51 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 changes to child content types, the list content type will not get updated.

You can learn more about content types in USP Journal Volume 1, Issue 2

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #49 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-49 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-49#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-49 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 1, Issue 3

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