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The updated SDKs are now available for downloading. SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK)

Whenever you have an ID from a list item, you might want to create a link to its DispForm or EditForm. But how do you get the Url to the forms? 1: SPList list = something; <span class=lnum> 2: </span>list.Forms[PAGETYPE.PAGE_DISPLAYFORM].Url;

If somehow the path to your masterpage is broken, you will get an error message like “file not found” when you access a website. This could happen if you create a new site from a template, which comes from another server. You can open your site in SharePoint Designer, though. The KB article A subsite that you create in SharePoint Server 2007 does not inherit master page settings from its parent site, and you receive error messages on the Site Master Page Settings page describes this problem.

You all know, that you can open a document via the context menu in SharePoint in editmode in an Office Application. This does not work, if you save e.g. a .docx. But help is on the way: Icons that represent 2007 Office files are incorrect, and the “Edit in Microsoft Office ” option does not appear in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services 2.

If you want the ID or the value form a LookupField, you can get it easily with this code snippet:SPListItem item = getitsomewhare… SPFieldLookupValue lf = (SPFieldLookupValue) item.ParentList.Fields.GetField(_FieldName).GetFieldValue( item.GetFormattedValue(_FieldName)); if you got the field, fetch its properties viaif (lf == null) { int itemID = lf.LookupId; string itemValue = lf.LookupValue; } Have fun ;-)

I started to write a Webpart, which shows the content of a remote website. You can specify logon information, as well as proxy information. **It is not ready yet! But I was asked for it. So I will publish it unfinished! ** Download

Fetching a listitem by ID will generate an error, if the a listitem with the ID does not exist. To avoid this exception, you can get a listitem by id by searching for it:private SPListItem GetListItem(SPList List, int ListItemID) { try { string defaultView = List.DefaultView.Title; SPQuery query = new SPQuery(List.Views[defaultView]); string caml = String.Format("{0}", ListItemID); query.Query = caml; SPListItemCollection results = List.GetItems(query); if (results.Count == 1) { return results[0]; } } catch (Exception ex) { _ErrorMessage +=

You can display multiple list items with SharePoint and SharePoint Designer quite easy. But how do you display a single listitem? I worte a Webpart, which does this. If there are more than one listitem, you can page through them. And if you like, you can pass an itemid via a Webpart connection. In the Webpart properties you can select the list/library. If you like, you can specify a view other than the default view.

I updated my tool to set the masterpage Url. Now you can set the masterpage Url for a Web and its subwebs only. Download

Some content types are hidden. This makes it hard to create a new content type, which inherrits from e.g. the “event”. Via the object model it is very easy to create a content type, which uses e.g. “event” as parent. SPSite site = new SPSite( http://serverurl); SPContentType parentContentType = site.RootWeb.ContentTypes[“Event”]; SPContentType newType = new SPContentType(parentContentType, site.RootWeb.ContentTypes, “newName”); site.RootWeb.ContentTypes.Add(newType); Because creating a new content type is just not enough, I wrote a little console application, which lets you create, rename and delete content types for a sitecollection:

Content Types are great to identify your different types of documents and list items. But how can you search for them? In this article I want to show you how to search for your content type via a search scope. First lets create a new content type “contracts”. Go to the rootweb of your sitecollection, and create a new content type: Next, add the new content type to a (new) documentlibrary.

Masterpages are great. You can change the appearance from your website very easy by modifying the default.master masterpage in the root of your sitecollection. But how do you get all pages beneath to use the same masterpage? Some pages use their own masterpage library, and ignore the one from the sitecollection rootsite. With this little tool, you can set the masterpage Url for all subwebs of a sitecollection to the masterpage Url from your rootweb, or some url you specify.

With this Tool you can compare two SharePoint Lists. E.g. if you have a test Server and a live Server, you want to know if you created all your Fields with the correct type. You can download this tool here. **Update: ** Here is an example what you have to write in the fields: http://sourcesite/web/subweb listnumberone http://sourcesite/web/anothersubweb listnumbertwo

SharePoint brings its own controls, which can be used to display list items. In this article I want to show you how to use them in a Webpart. It took me a while to figure this out, because the documentation is kind of incomplete L… OK. Lets start. First lets find out which SharePoint Web Control belongs to which data type in SharePoint. SharePoint Web Control SharePoint data type SharePoint Web Control Single line of text TextField Multiple lines of text PlainText NoteField Rich Text RichTextField Enhanced Rich Text RichTextField Choice Dropdown DropDownChoiceField Radio Button RadioButtonChoiceField Number NumberField Currency CurrencyField Date and Time DateTimeField Lookup Single Item LookupField Multiple Items MultipleLookupField Yes/No BooleanField Person or Group UserField Hyperlink or Picture UrlField Calculated UrlField Business data How do we find which control belongs to the data type?

Mart Muller wrote a great article about the page viewer Webpart. If you put the JavaScript onto the page which is displayed inside the page viewer Webpart, it will auto adjust its height. http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart/SharePointPageViewerAutomaticallyAdjustIFrameHeight.aspx