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Per my last post, it is very easy to use SharePoint's web services to access things like list data.   Here's one troubleshooting note... Let's say you implement my example but when you run your application you get a ''Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException'' error message.  The first place to look is your web service ...

Time to put my Developer hat back on... One of the benefits of using SharePoint for application list management (i.e. data in a dropdown) is that it offers a built-in interface for entering and changing that data.  Whether your custom application is doing something within SharePoint, leveraging the object model, or simply using it as a ...

Sorry for the radio silence with the blog the last several weeks!  We're into crunch time on our MOSS 2007 book and I am writing (hopefully!) my last chapters this week.  Anyway, here's a quick SPS 2003 tip on uploading a local document into a document library.  I had to try a few different ways before I could get it to work ...

A few weeks ago I posted some code to create an Active Directory user using a web service.  If you try it, the code works great... once.  After the first call, all subsequent calls fail.  It turns out that there is a known bug in the .Invoke (associated with setting the user password) that causes all calls after the first to fail ...