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October 20, 2008
Pop quiz: what happens when indexing large files?
A standard MOSS installation only indexes documents up to 16Mbs. If you exceed this, the crawl logs will show a warning message (not an error message) that such a document has reached the maximum download limit (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287231). You can change this default by setting a registry value (set HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\GatheringManager\MaxDownloadSize, add this key if it’s missing) to the max number of Mbs (in decimals) that you want to index.
September 15, 2008
Create an Autocomplete Custom Field Type with Ajax for ASP.NET
There’s been a lot of discussion about the question if MOSS 2007 should support Ajax for ASP.NET or not. We’ve heard a lot of people say that it’s nice to have, but that there are other issues that should have gotten more priority. Other people are unimpressed with Ajax for ASP.NET altogether, because they say: "This possibilities have been around for ages, I could have done that since the days of XML data islands!" And yet other people don’t like entire the concept of Ajax, claiming it doesn’t solve customer problems that are really crucial. Be that as it may, MOSS service pack 1 officially happens to support Ajax for ASP.NET and we love it and we use it. Our personal favourite is the Autocomplete behaviour and in this article we’ll show how to build a custom field type (CFT) that uses it.
August 29, 2008
Hierarchical object store vs Property bag
We find, when building MOSS solutions, that we generally have a need for configuration information stores at four different levels: Web application level, Site collection level, Site level or List level.
There are lots of options when it comes to choosing configuration information stores, but at the web application level SharePoint offers two choices that are quite natural: the
August 4, 2008
Working with noise words - update
In August 2007 we wrote an article about working with noise words. In that article, we included a little script that displays Shared Service Provider GUIDs.
July 29, 2008
The Feature Gooney
the Feature Gooney facilitates working with SharePoint 2007 features. The current version of the Feature Gooney is a WPF application that doesn't do much yet, but what is does at this point is COOL (at least, that's what we think)! The Feature Gooney offers a couple of tabs offering different functionality.
July 29, 2008
Building a System.Transactions resource manager for SharePoint
When building a system that supports relations between list items, you’ll soon find out that you need a transaction, quite a well-known concept, especially in the database world. Since MOSS doesn’t support list item transactions, you need to build such a mechanism yourself. We think the best way to do this is to build a System.Transactions resource manager for SharePoint, which is coincidentally the topic of this article. To be very precise, we’ll show how to build a resource manager that’s able to support transactions for list item metadata.
June 10, 2008
Working with large files
One of our customers had issues working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and large files. They received time-out errors as well as general errors when working with large files (in this case, files that are larger than 25 MB). A small percentage of the files they work with are really large; they are close to 150MB in size.
May 15, 2008
Creating an association and initiation form in a workflow using VS.NET 2008
Creating SharePoint workflows in Visual Studio has become significantly easier in Visual Studio.NET 2008. However, creating InfoPath forms and using them within custom workflows is still a bit tricky. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through it and point out some of the gotchas. While we’re doing this, we’ll also discuss some of the tips and tricks involved with working with the Delay activity.
January 4, 2008
Mapping SharePoint 2007 content types to SharePoint 2003 list template types
This blog post contains an overview of the possible mappings between SharePoint 2007 content types and SharePoint 2003 list template types.
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