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Inline Script inside an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel - Infinities Loop

Mike — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:48:31 GMT

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 with your updatepanel control to add scripts that should be executed when the panel loads.

Inline Script inside an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel - Infinities Loop

Daniel Larson's Developer Blog: SharePoint Elevated Privilege without RunWithElevatedPrivelege

Mike — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:23:08 GMT

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 RunWithElevatedPrivelege

Hiding MOSS functionality in the master page or a page layout

Mike — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:26:05 GMT

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 up a couple examples other people have provided on the net:

SPSecurityTrimmedControl - specify what permissions are needed to show the items wrapped in this control. The blog post below explains this pretty well and shows you all the available permissions you can use. Notice that at the bottom of the post, the author included a code example.

An example of using this would be to hide the Site Actions menu for everyone who does not have permission to AddAndCustomizePages and ManageLists... in other words, do not show the site actions menu for users who are visitors or contributors.

Referenced blog post - http://zac.provoke.co.nz/archive/2007/05/31/spsecuritytrimmedcontrol-possible-values-for-permissionsstring.aspx

MenuItem PermissionsString - specify what permissions are needed to show the current menu item. The blog post below documents this pretty well and shows a very good example for hiding 'edit page' from the site actions menu using this method.

Referenced Blog Post - http://www.sharepointblogs.com/holliday/archive/2008/01/14/hide-edit-page-in-site-actions-menu.aspx

SharePoint user management

Mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:40:58 GMT

I stumbled across this article on accident this morning and thought I'd share it... for those who are new to SharePoint or need some clarification on authentication, user groups, user profiles, etc in MOSS 2007, check out this article on Bamboo's website... its quite well done and really helps make things much more black and white if you're unfamiliar with it.

http://store.bamboosolutions.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10829

Top 100 SharePoint Blogs of Spring 2008

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:37:59 GMT

For those of you interested in who the top bloggers are out there, check out this list

Top 100 SharePoint Blogs of Spring 2008 - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land