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July 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:49 AM

Zipping/Unzipping Files in a C# Application

Recently, I wrote a web service that consumes XML and generates output (PDF) files. I used a component from tallPDF ( http://tallpdf.net/ ) to handle the PDF file creation (based on an XML template) and things worked great. However, we found that the
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Friday, July 20, 2007 3:22 AM

Odd SPS 2003 Behavior After Latest Security Patches

OK, I still don't fully understand all the pieces here but I thought I would share what I know... I worked with a client yesterday on an odd problem with SharePoint Portal Server 2003. It seemed that site creation out of the site directory stopped working.
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Saturday, July 14, 2007 4:16 AM

New Whitepaper on MOSS Security Model

My colleague, Nick Bisciotti , and I have written a whitepaper on the MOSS security model. The goal is to give readers an overview of the many layers and touch points for security considerations associated with managing a MOSS environment. You can find
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:00 AM

How search features are affected by a SharePoint upgrade

I found a very interesting article on Microsoft TechNet ( http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e96a7f61-4287-40f9-b7c0-2763e1fd93841033.mspx?pf=true ) on how search is affected by going from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to MOSS 2007. It
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:50 AM

Programmatically Add Values to a SharePoint Multi-Value List Field

I recently wrote a web part that mimics the data entry form that SharePoint presents for list data. One of the challenges I had was dealing with multi-select fields. If you look at how SharePoint shows the values on the list view it appears that the data
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:44 AM

Another Great Source for Portal Content

Following up on my last post on world clocks, I'd like to add one more... I received an email yesterday showcasing the new Forbes widgets. Basically, they present Forbes.com (my favorite magazine, by the way) content in "widgets" on MySpace and FaceBook
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