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InfoPath unclosed literal string error -

Posted by GeorgeH on February 19, 2011

I had an InfoPath form that previously worked fine, including some retrieve data connections to SharePoint. After adding a new data connection, the following error messages were displayed after attem... [read more]


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InfoPath - Get the row being edited in a repeating table programmatically

Posted by GeorgeH on January 23, 2011

I recently came across an issue with an InfoPath Form, where an XML Document was being constructed in the background when certain fields were updated in the form template. The XML being generated was... [read more]


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SharePoint Site Permissions Management Using Excel

Posted by GeorgeH on November 23, 2010

Managing site permission in SharePoint can become an onerous task when an environment expands to many sites with various permission setting applied for different users.  This is especially the ca... [read more]


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SharePoint Development: Re-Usable Data View XSL Templates

Posted by GeorgeH on November 19, 2010

An often overlooked feature provided by SharePoint Designer is the ability to link an external XSL Template and associated Style Sheets to the a Data View Web Part (DVWP), allowing multiple Data Views... [read more]

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InfoPath unclosed literal string error -

Posted by GeorgeH on February 19, 2011

I had an InfoPath form that previously worked fine, including some retrieve data connections to SharePoint. After adding a new data connection, the following error messages were displayed after attem... [read more]

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SharePoint Development: Re-Usable Data View XSL Templates

Posted by InfoPathSharePoint.net on November 19, 2010

An often overlooked feature provided by SharePoint Designer is the ability to link an external XSL Template and associated Style Sheets to the a Data View Web Part (DVWP), allowing multiple Data Views... [read more]

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InfoPath - Get the row being edited in a repeating table programmatically

Posted by Daniel S on January 23, 2011

I recently came across an issue with an InfoPath Form, where an XML Document was being constructed in the background when certain fields were updated in the form template. The XML being generated was... [read more]

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Step by Step Guide to Configure SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication with ADLDS

Posted by nikspatel on December 12, 2011

It is very common to use Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services – ADLDS in Windows 2008 environments (ADAM in Windows 2003 environments) to store external users in extranet environments for... [read more]

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Image Slideshow on SharePoint CEWP

Posted by zakir hossain on April 2, 2011

Using following java script you can easily create a very lucrative slideshow on SharePoint Content Editor Web Part. To do so, following the steps:1. Place a Content Editor Web Part to your SharePoint ... [read more]

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Restore SharePoint Site Collection using Restore-SPSite Fails with No Content Databases are Available

Posted by Phil Harding on December 13, 2011

Attempting to restore a site collection using the powershell Restore-SPSite cmdlet failed with the following error I had previously deleted the site collection using Central Administration, and in thi... [read more]

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Open PDF files directly in browser SharePoint 2010

Posted by Praveen on December 12, 2011

Here is how you can tell SharePoint 2010 site to open the PDF files in the browser instead of prompting the user to save or open the PDF. This will be a great option to the most of end users. This nee... [read more]

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Script to install SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7

Posted by Praveen on December 13, 2011

You are ready to install SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7? Then you are at the right place. For the installation you have to download all required and follow the complete MSDN article and then execute ste... [read more]

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Minimum System Requirements of Microsoft InfoPath 2010

Posted by aantwan1 on July 7, 2011

Before install Microsoft InfoPath 2010, you must make sure your computer has a minimum system requirements , Or this Software otherwise could not run on your computer and you might have to upgrade the... [read more]

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Publishing vs Collaboration site

Posted by Prasath C on January 3, 2011

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Feature receiver not working when activating through the powershell script

Posted by Mukesh Singh on March 24, 2012

Sometime while deploying package using powershell script it works fine and also activates the feature, but any feature receiver event does not fire. To solve this issue:- Try to cl... [read more]

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SharePoint: Mapping Document File Extensions to Document Images

Posted by Phil Harding on March 21, 2012

Mapping document file extensions to their corresponding image file names can be done quite easily using the XSLT extension functions found in the DDWRT namespace, namely the MapToI... [read more]

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SharePoint: Displaying List Data with Client-side Technologies jQuery, SPServices and jsRender

Posted by Phil Harding on March 21, 2012

Having recently been immersed in developing client-side functionality for a SharePoint 2007 project I thought I’d share some of the techniques and tools I’ve used in doing so. ... [read more]

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Logging SOAP messages for a WCF Web Service

Posted by Charles Emes on March 18, 2012

I had a need to log inbound SOAP messages to a WCF Web Service. It turns out this is really easy to do by adding some entries in the web.config.As always take a backup of the web.c... [read more]

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Print a Web Part Zone

Posted by Prasath C on March 16, 2012

Requirement: To print multiple Web Parts in a Web Part zone from the home page of a Web site.Following are the steps to achieve this1. Add the Web Parts in a Web Part Zone2. Open t... [read more]

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InfoPath Form upload issue – Could not find selected file

Posted by pradeepkvd on March 16, 2012

Solution: Create a Feature elements.xml: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <Elements xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/”> <Control Id=... [read more]

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SharePoint Error while Creating Site Collections or Sites – Cannot complete this action

Posted by nikspatel on March 14, 2012

Yesterday I came across weird error while provisioning sites programmatically from the WCF service – Cannot complete this action. The reason why this error was weird because I wa... [read more]

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SharePoint: Using the CONTAINS Predicate with FullTextSqlQuery

Posted by Phil Harding on March 13, 2012

The FullTextSqlQuery class is part of the Enterprise Search Query Object Model and is used to perform content queries using (amongst other things) managed properties and search sco... [read more]

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InfoPath Digital Signature

Posted by Elczar Adame on March 11, 2012

A friend posted an inquiry: I want to add digital signature at digital signature line of the Infopath2010 form through Sharepoint2010 browser without open it in Infopath2010 and I ... [read more]

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Checklist for Designing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Extranets – High Level Items to Consider

Posted by nikspatel on March 11, 2012

I have been designing SharePoint extranets since MOSS 2007 days and it’s been amazing to see that even though on surface each extranet projects are approached same way, each and ... [read more]

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SharePoint 2010 Web Services – Get that data!

Posted by emmettlynch on March 9, 2012

Once you have important data in your SharePoint farm, other systems are going to want to get at it. SharePoint offers very robust SOAP web services that can rea... [read more]

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The operation could not be completed because item was removed from the gallery

Posted by Mukesh Singh on March 9, 2012

This is common Webpart deployment error Some time after deploying the wsp package containing webpart doesnot work properly. When tried to add into the webpart i... [read more]

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5 Steps to Create a Custom SharePoint FBA Login Page

Posted by Elczar Adame on March 9, 2012

It takes 5 steps to develop a custom SharePoint FBA login page. 1. In Visual Studio 2010, create a SharePoint Project, and add an Application Page. For our purp... [read more]

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SharePoint: Checking Arbitrary User Permissions and why SPListItem.DoesUserHavePermissions is a Big Fat Dirty Liar

Posted by Phil Harding on March 8, 2012

To clarify, the object model method isn’t a big fat dirty liar, but the documentation certainly is. This blog post is about checking permissions of arbitrary ... [read more]

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SharePoint 'Approve on behalf of' for Publishing Pages

Posted by Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi on March 8, 2012

Using require approval and the approval workflow in SharePoint 2010 publishing, or just approval on the pages library in the simple publishing configuration, is... [read more]


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