Mike's Blog

Ever wonder how to add entries to the Portal Log?  Well, you can do this the easy way by using Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString but there always seems to be those cases where you want more flexibility than just adding a basic Read More...

To deploy IMM, one of the prereq's is to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1... we had done this on two different dev servers with no ill effects.  However, turns out in production, there is a slight side effect that was causing us some major problems.  Read More...

I am building some web parts that include some AJAX functionality and found out that any inline scripts I was outputting in my updatepanel were not being executed.  The blog post below offers a great explanation on this... basically, use ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript Read More...

Something has been brought to my attention today that I wanted to share... most people use elevated privileges but don't pass the user token... check out this post for more info. Daniel Larson's Developer Blog: SharePoint Elevated Privilege without RunWithElevatedPriveleg Read More...

Recently I was asked how we could show and hide things based on user permission, without writing a custom MOSS feature with c# code.  There are a couple ways to do this and rather than me spending type typing up a how to or show examples, I've looked Read More...