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• Blogging again

  Some of my old readers would have noticed that I've stopped blogging for quite a while now. Thing in my personal life, kept me busy and off blogging. However, I am very much here, and dying to start blogging again. While I was in hibernation, the world... Posted Jun 02 2008, 09:09 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint

• Office Servers Available on MSDN

  I just heard that the Office Servers including SharePoint 2007 are available for download at MSDN now. Not sure if this is old news or not, but a heads up to anyone who has not been keeping track. Go to MSDN and download SharePoint 2007 now :) Posted Nov 29 2006, 10:11 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint

• Prefix 'z' is not defined error in SharePoint

  If you are trying to programmatically add items to a sharepoint list, using the web services, you might encounter this error while analysing the return value. I was adding entries to the site directory and on adding an entry, you get a XML result set... Posted Nov 24 2006, 04:11 PM by amar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint

• .NET Code Performance

  I recently had been busy performance tuning .NET code, and I was very surprised at some of the findings as I timed and profiled various code modules. I had done a lot of performance tuning with C++ before I migrated to .NET. Had not done any serious performance... Posted Nov 22 2006, 03:11 PM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: dotNet, Sharepoint

• Code cannot find reference to assembly in GAC

  I came across this error today which made me quite curious on why it is happening. This occured to me in a SharePoint WebPart, but it is a very general .NET Framework error and as such can occur in any type of .NET application. CS0011: Referenced class... Posted Sep 29 2006, 03:09 PM by amar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: dotNet, Sharepoint

• Microsoft Knowledge Network for SharePoint 2007

  I just had a look at the Knowledge Network team blog . It seems like they have released a build last week. Completely missed out on it. Have not tried it out, but it does seem to be cool. Head over to the Knowledge Network Team Blog if you want to know... Posted Jul 17 2006, 08:07 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint

• Area template bugs...

  I am working with some custom area templates, and was interested to know if anyone has found any workaround for some bugs. I did not find anything on the ms knowledge base and was unable to locate any information on google. 1. Area Templates do not consider... Posted Jul 12 2006, 08:56 AM by amar with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint

• stsadm unable to connect to sharepoint database

  I ran across this problem today when I tried to run stsadm and kept on getting an error saying that it is unable to connect to the configuration database. I was able to go thru the site and the central admin pages successfully, but this problem was happening... Posted Jul 12 2006, 08:54 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint

• Improving SharePoint performance

  This is a neat trick to improve the performance of your Sharepoint Box if you have custom webparts installed. Normally, the SharePoint indexer kicks in to index the pages, and when it does kick in, it causes an additional hit on the server. There may... Posted Jun 27 2006, 11:06 AM by amar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint

• Extracting dll's out of the GAC

  I was recently asked how to reference the Microsoft.SharePoint and few of the other SharePoint dll's in a project while developing on a non SharePoint machine. The solution is quite simple which we often seem to neglect. This is applicable for any assembly... Posted Jun 13 2006, 03:06 PM by amar with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: dotNet, Sharepoint

• Renaming Title field in SharePoint Lists from Schema.XML

  One of my colleagues asked me how to replace the title field in a SharePoint list with his own field and get the standard dropdown on that field. From my experience I have found that the title and id fields are very tightly intervoven with the SharePoint... Posted May 16 2006, 01:05 PM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint

• Profile WebParts for performance and memory

  I recently wanted to profile some of my Webparts to identify possible memory usage and speed issues. So I started to look for some profiling tools which I can evaluate and maybe ask my company to purchase in the long run. I tried three tools. Compuware... Posted May 15 2006, 11:05 AM by amar with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: dotNet, Sharepoint

• Warning: Do not delete the Navbars section from the onet.xml

  I recently ran across a problem with the Navbars section in Onet.xml. Let me explain what I did. I had a template which did not use the quick launch bars, and had them removed from the aspx files. So I thought of cleaning up the onet.xml also. If I completely... Posted May 11 2006, 01:05 PM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint

• Caching in SharePoint Web Parts

  I recently came across a very nice article on implementing caching in Web Parts. It describes the various options available for use and seems pretty nice. Have not read it completely yet, but thought of pointing you guys to it. Check it out here . Posted May 10 2006, 11:05 AM by amar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint

• Error in removing Category Navigation WebPart from SharePoint Templates

  In general, it is quite easy to remove the Category Navigation WebPart SPSWC:CategoryNavigationWebPart from the SharePoint template. Just open the proper file, locate <SPSWC:CategoryNavigationWebPart runat="server" id="HorizontalNavBar" DisplayStyle... Posted May 08 2006, 01:05 PM by amar with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Sharepoint