Tag Archives: SharePoint 2007

Using a base web part class when developing SharePoint web parts

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Everett Comstock

When developing solutions for SharePoint 2007, I use WSPBuilder almost exclusively. Carsten Keutmann has created an excellent tool that automates and eases much of the work that is involved in creating a solution for SharePoint. In fact, in some ways, WSPBuilder makes things too easy. When creating a project using the out of the box WSPBuilder project and item templates, it is easy to fall into some bad practices.  
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A better InputFormSection for SharePoint

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Everett Comstock

One of my biggest annoyances with developing solutions SharePoint 2007 is the fact that many of the web controls available in the SharePoint framework do not support the same development paradigm that traditional ASP.Net controls support. Specifically, many controls in the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls namespace do not support two way data binding. The best example of this is the InputFormSection control. Like many ASP.Net Templated controls, the InputFormSection control allows you to encapsulate items of your choosing in regions within the control. The control takes care of the layout and positioning of your controls, and reduces the need for redundant declarative markup.  
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My Site Unreachable by Some Users

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Mike Polen

I ran into a weird situation at a client the other day and it took some digging and guessing to resolve. The issue was that one user in the IS department could not reach the IS Director’s my site. Everyone else in IS (including me) could see it just fine and this user could visit all other my sites. When this one person went to the my site he was presented this wonderful error page:  
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