SharePoint Deployment

Limitation of a Calculated Column Type - It's not dynamic but static.

A Calculated Column type in SharePoint has a limitation. A record of a calculated column is created or updated when a SharePoint list item is stored. This means that a calculated data is static and only updated when a SharePoint list item will be changed. For this reason, SharePoint does not allow users to use [Me] or [Today] function within a Calculated Column type because both [Me] and [Today] require real-time update of SharePoint list items.

posted @ Friday, September 21, 2007 5:11 PM | Feedback (3)

Using Microsoft Enterprise Library with SharePoint TimerJob

Monitoring the health of custom SharePoint TimerJob is very important for trouble-shooting. Capturing an exception or recording activities to an EventLog is commonly used approach for monitoring an application. EntLib is a good choice for handling exceptions and recording logs to an Event Log, for example, because it provides Exception Handling block, Logging block and other aspects right out-of-box. EntLib relies on reading configuration information from .Net config file, and so no coding is re

posted @ Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:09 PM | Feedback (0)

Deploying WebParts to WebParts Gallery using SharePoint Feature

Using a SharePoint feature, webparts can be deployed to SharePoint webparts gallery.

posted @ Friday, May 25, 2007 10:39 AM | Feedback (2)