This is a site that has a neat trick for quickly customising a sharepoint site.
Author: chriseyre2000
PowerShell
Recently I have been experimenting with PowerShell.
I have a need to configure Sharepoint in a repeatable manner and have considered Powershell as a possible means of doing so.
Here is a site that provides basic PowerShell documentation
Here is a site that has 5 useful Sharepoint PowerShell functions.
The code is missing a reference to the assembly but that can easily be fixed.
This is a site that proves a sample script to recycle the app pool – something that you need to do very frequently in sharepoint development.
Windows Genuine Annoyance
I don’t mind running WGA once to download “free” software.
I do mind if you keep on having to run WGA. Once I have genuine software how could it change?
It is especially annoying as the checks have now started to fail (despite this being a fully XP licensed machine).
Sharepoint – An unexpected error has occurred
This is what you need to do when Sharepoint gives you it’s “An unexpected error has occurred page”.
Otherwise the exception is “eaten”. That is not recorded in the logs.
How the BDC Columns actually work
This post explains how the BDC works under the hood.
It does however miss out on fully updating the underlying data – you need to update each BDC field explicitly.
It does however miss out on fully updating the underlying data – you need to update each BDC field explicitly.
The big flaw with the BDC is that the externally referenced data is cached in the list itself. The user needs to update the list (which can be time consuming) or the host app must do it for the user.
Adding Security to the BDC Entities
This is an article on programatically adding secuity to a BDC entity.
The key point is that there are two API’s for accessing the BDC catalog.
One is read only, the other is slower yet can update.
Sharepoint Podcast
This is podcast about Sharepoint.
The listed episode covers the use of the BDC
The listed episode covers the use of the BDC
Adding web parts to a web page
Another option is to export the web part definition in the web part hosting to a .webpart file.
The content can be used as-is in an elements.xml file
Adding web parts to a web page programmatically:
Sharepoint gotcha
The GetSiteData method on the SPWeb returns all of the columns as datatype string. This does not appear to be documented anywhere. It is however the only single method that can query across lists.
CAML is a very weak query language. You can’t do much in the way of joins.
Developer Rants 