Assuming that you deal a lot with installation of various SharePoint components and solutions, and have written custom feature receivers a number of times, you have probably seen the below code fragment each time you wrote a site collection-scoped feature. public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties...

Assuming that you deal a lot with installation of various SharePoint components and solutions, and have written custom feature receivers a number of times, you have probably seen the below code fragment each time you wrote a site collection-scoped feature. public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties...

I'm sitting at a chain coffee shop in my home town of Edmonton, the day after doing a technical presentation to a large enterprise client about SharePoint technology and best practices. Whenever I find myself in such a situation, I feel a little apprehensive at first because I never know what level...

imason's Ivan Neganov recently presented at the Toronto SharePoint Camp . In his session, he talked about automated deployments of SharePoint/MOSS-based solutions. Deployment with SharePoint/MOSS is among the least-understood areas, and it is not trivial. Most people resort to the first option (the...

Some of imason's Sharepoint gurus presented this past weekend at the Toronto Sharepoint camp. Boyan , Jim , Bob and Ivan all presented. A good review of the day can be found here , including this high-praise for Jim & Boyan. Jim Schwartz and Boyan Tsolov showed how they have managed to stretch...

Thanks to everyone who made it out to our Advanced InfoPath Development session yesterday at the Toronto SharePoint Camp . We had quite a good turnout; so I’m glad to see there are lots of other people out there using browser-based InfoPath forms using Forms Services on SharePoint. InfoPath makes...

It’s common when doing custom development in SharePoint to quickly change the trust level to Full at the first sign of trouble and then tell ourselves that we’ll work on writing a custom code access security policy later. Most of the time we make this change from WSS_Minimal to Full because...

When enterprises first adopt SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) in their organization, the immediate benefit is not realized right away. Once they bring in a consultancy like ours who are SharePoint experts to successfully create a line of business application that: 1) Fills a business need 2) Has an obvious...

Why you would deploy custom ASPX pages SharePoint lets you do a lot out of the box, but as we all know, sometimes the need arises to deploy custom pages within your SharePoint environment. Custom wizards, dashboards, and administration pages are just a few examples where you would like your web pages...

In my InfoPath page, I have placed a file attachment control on it for users to attach files with the InfoPath page they are filling out. The file attachment control seemed to have a built-in limit of 4MB as to the maximum file size the users can upload. I want to increase it to 25 MB. I found this post...