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Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm
Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is on a billion-dollar quest to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow.
“I have not seen anything like this since the early days of [Lotus] Notes,” says Mike Gotta, an analyst with [...]
Issue or Bug in Explorer View?
The explorer view is not updated even after refreshing the page when we delete the documents from the document library in “All documents” view.
Issue repro steps:
1)Create a document library “MyDocs1” and upload the documents
2) Now change the view from “All Documents” to “Explorer View”, it correctly displays all the documents added
3)Switch to “All Documents view” [...]
Sharepoint Object Model Best Practices
Follow the below best practices while doing custom coding using sharepoint object model. I found these articles very useful.
1) Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949.aspx
2) Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms473633.aspx
How to activate or deactivate feature using sharepoint object model
To activate feature through Sharepoint object model use the following code
Activate a feature:
spSite.Features.Add(“featureId”)
Deactivate a feature:
spSite.Features.Remove(“featureId”)
How to Log errors to SharePoint Log file
In SharePoint log files are available under \Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOG.
Exceptions can be logged to the default SharePoint log file using the following line of code.
Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString(”Exception Occurred: {0} || {1}”, Ex.Message, Ex.StackTrace);
Note: Make sure that you add the reference to Microsfot.Office.Server dll
How get the process ID of a SharePoint application if multiple web Applications are running
You can run IISAPP utility from the command prompt which will list all the w3wp processes, their Application Pool Id and process ID.
This is helpful when you want to attach w3wp process to a debugger ,and when multiple web Applications are running.