Are you looking to connect two custom SharePoint web parts to each other? Did you know there is more than one way to accomplish this? From what I've seen and heard from the developers around me is that most only know of one way, and in this post I'd ...[Read more]

Ever want to use a lookup column in SharePoint to lookup data in a list, but that list resides in a different site collection or site than the one you're in? Well – out of box this isn't possible, but with the help of jQuery and an event handler, it ...[Read more]

Ever want to use some reusable content, but you don't have one of those handy Page Content field controls to consume it with? Well that was my situation because I was in a publishing site, but I was on a generic web part page with no page content ...[Read more]

I couple days ago I was in Atlanta and gave a presentation at the SharePoint Saturday event there on how to build the next generation of SharePoint web parts by using jQuery and Silverlight. I must say that I thought this Atlanta event was INCREDI ...[Read more]

I'm working with a custom timer job and a custom ASPX page allowing end users to change the schedule for when the job runs. However, before they change or delete a job, I want to ensure the job is not running first. Here's the code on how I did th ...[Read more]

One big pain that I continually run into with web parts is when you want two web parts side by side. The problem is when Web Part Zones that have a horizontal alignment, they always SCRUNCH the web parts together. This is fine if the web parts have ...[Read more]

My last trick in this three part series (part 1, part 2) is how to leverage a custom InfoPath form within your task modification pages. Whenever working with workflows and the task management framework, it is a much more elegant to use InfoPath form ...[Read more]

Trick #1: Programmatically dropping InfoPath forms into a forms library  Business Case:  I've come so notice that SharePoint isn't the easiest platform for end users to learn. When the IT department decides they want to "virtualize" ...[Read more]

It's been many months since my last branding post back in June, so I figured I ought to renew my efforts to get this 10 part series published. I left off with best practice number 6, which I will now reveal is "Use SharePoint Solution Packages ...[Read more]

I was setting up a project server web access site, and trying to publish new project workspaces to the server via the project client. It would publish just fine, however, the workspace wouldn't get provisioned correctly. I took a look at the event ...[Read more]

I was building a SharePoint wiki that utilizes custom security on each page depending on who the user is. To programmatically assign the permissions, I leveraged custom columns on the pages to identify what permissions to set. The problem is, when ...[Read more]

All of a sudden all my ok buttons in all my SharePoint sites started throwing javascript errors whenever they were clicked. For example, if I was in a SharePoint list and I wanted to add a new list item, it would break when I clicked ok.   I du ...[Read more]

Ever get an "Access to the path c:\... is denied" error when try to deploy or upgrade a SharePoint solution package? I've been getting this error intermittently over the past couple weeks and just today I figured out why! It wasn't rocke ...[Read more]

Code Access Security (CAS) is a hot topic these days, and for good reasons. CAS is an important thing to have an understanding of if you work in a security conscious company, or if you're striving to understand best practices. If you're new to CAS ...[Read more]

<update 9/11/08>  Corro'll Driskell posted a counter post to my "SharePoint Designer Blues" that I feel is a good read. I admit my disdain for Designer in this post is too sweeping, and isn't even a holistic expression of my views o ...[Read more]