Posted by Shantha Kumar on 10th March 2009

SharePoint Databases

I did some research on SharePoint Databases and how are they providing datas to SharePoint sites?. Here i am come up with some details of Databases used in SharePoint.

Database Name
Description
Availablity

SharePoint_AdminContent_
GUID
This is the Central Admin Content database, is used to store all WSS 3.0 / MOSS content.
WSS3.0, MOSS 

SharePoint_Config
The configuration database contains data about all the databases [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 9th March 2009

The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again.

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The above error will be thrown at the time of updating Library or Lists items due to authentication problem, or We didn’t have the rights to update the items.
By using the follwoing code, We [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 5th March 2009

No Excel Calculation Services is available in the farm.

 This was the error, i recieved recently when i open an Excel sheet in browser.  I didn’t recived this error before, so i searched in recent log file. That file list out the following line
03/04/2009 14:27:33.07    w3wp.exe (0×14C4)    0×020C     Excel Services      Excel Services Web Front End  5pad    Critical   [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 3rd March 2009

Upload document from Local Machine to SharePoint Library using WebService

In my previous post i’m explained about the members of Copy Web Service. For uploading a document from any local machine to sharepoint document library is possible by using CopyInToItems method.
Though, the syntax for that method is,
public uint CopyIntoItems (string SourceUrl,string[] DestinationUrls,FieldInformation[] Fields,byte[] Stream,out CopyResult[] Results)

Parameters,
SourceUrl:
A String that contains the absolute source URL of the [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 10th February 2009

SharePoint Copy WebService – Part 1

Summary about Copy webservice in sharepoint

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 5th June 2008

WSS 3.0 Tools, now supports VS2008

Hi everybody, It’s nice to hear that Visual Studio 2008 now support the WSS3.0 Tools (VseWSS Version1.2).
If you are using vs2005, you should still use Vsersion1.1
The Downloads for VS extensions for WSS Tools
VS 2008:
VseWSS12
VS 2005:
VseWSSv11
Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 14th April 2008

SharePoint Navigation Providers – Part 1

I want to share with you all, about navigation features in both WSS3.0 and MOSS. SharePoint Navigation features called Navigation Providers are enabled in the root directory of webapplications’s web.config file to access widely. These named Navigation providers are added to the <SiteMap> element under <System.Web> Section.
Named Providers are defined under WSS3.0 are,
· SPNavigationProvider
· [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 31st March 2008

Uploading File from Local Machine to SharePoint ListItem as an attachment

To attach the file from Local Machine to SharePoint ListItem as an attachment, Import the System.IO namespace to use the Stream Class to read the file contents.

Use System.Web.UI.WebControls.FileUpload control is named as fileUpload in code.
Sample code for uploading the file from Local Machine to ListItem attachments as follows,
//Check the FileUpload control has the file
if (fileUpload.PostedFile [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 1st March 2008

Silverlight webpart for SharePoint:

In this post, we are going to see integrating the webpart with Silverlight contents on SharePoint Site.
 For that, we need to combine all required java script and Xaml files (used to display the Silverlight content) in to single assembly without any dependent files. It makes sense to embed the Xaml and java script file as [...]

Posted by Shantha Kumar on 10th August 2007

MOSS 2007 Samples

Check this link for Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007  and download a 6 MOSS 2007 samples.
This link contains 1 article and 6 samples which gives you the little idea about Infopath forms, Workflows and User access in BDC, AD using MOSS.