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• Philip Jaques Return of the SmartPart

  Hi, m using the Return of the SmartPart deploying my Web User Control (.ascx file). I wish to add extra properties that would interact with my Web User Control, m not sure if this is possible. My initial plan is to add one extra property along with the "User control to display" properties; that mean i need to have access to the ReturnOfSmartPart source code, or inherited the ReturnOfSmartPart. M not sure how the whole thing need to happen, can someone please give me some guide. Thank you, Han Duong Return of SmartPart is unfortunately closed source, proprietary and copyrighted. I have also had extensive problems using it in MOSS. Most of the problems have required IIS Resets. The part fails to ...Show All

• RavindraPatil Web Service vs. Component

  I'm looking for any recommended articles that discuss the pros/cons of building a web service vs. a component assembly. I'd like to find something that provides some guidelines for choosing one implementation method over another. Does anyone know where I can find an article like this Hi Ron, IMHO you shouldnot consider web servers VS component assemblies as Either/OR. The answer you should look for is whether Service Orientated Architecture is what fits you needs. If you are convinced about having a SOA architecture, you can still implement your application services and layers as in-process component assemblies to save on all the network/xml processing overheads. And if needed, you can always ...Show All

• Martin Lynch dataSet Vs DataReader

  Hi All, I have one question regarding implementing data reader and dataset in my project. My project is a windows application with the database in a separate server. I have numerous records to be retrieved and processed.My application has many master data tables and has many transaction tables too. Is it a good approach to frequently hit database server to get the data using datareader or to get the data using dataset with minimal round trips. Which is good approach Please advice me on this. Thanks in advance. I agree that it depends on the scenario. Certainly if the data is being directly serialized into a different format then using datasets makes no sense. Also if you are just using the data for a m ...Show All

• robinjam Error Codes

  Hi , I need your opinions about whether to use a global return code for each method in my application or let every component throw its exception and use the upper layer to handle it. Example : public RetCode ABC () { If(…) Return RetCode.Valid; Else Return RetCode.Invalied; } OR public void ABC () { If(…) … Else Throw new Exception (…); } Thanks You should probably use exceptions because they force the caller to handle it whereas it is easy to forget to check a return code. There is a cost in throwing exceptions but since they are meant to be used in & ...Show All

• davidguygc Which Way to go?

  I have a project to make a Settlement Statement in this format. Column1 Column2 Column3 Colume4 Adv Deposits Guest City Monthtoday forColumn 3 Previous Balance 0.00 0.00 300.0 - Settlements ---The Settlements Section will be Manual Entry Net cash 0.00 0.00 0.00 450 Checks 0.00 0.00 0.00 600 Paid Out 200.00 0.00 0.00 500 F&B Paid Out 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Lockbox 0.00 150.00 0.00 150 American Express 0.00 0.00 150.00 150 Discover 0. ...Show All

• eligh_ll HELP, Going Live! How to reset all aites, lists, items, etc. to inherit permissions.

  We are going live with our intranet WSS 3.0 site this week and we need to completely redo our permissions. We would like to basically start fresh with everything everywhere inheriting from the root site. Any help and suggestions are welcome. Kevin C You can write a program that recurses through all of the sites and use SPWeb. ResetRoleInheritance to reset the security. I did not see any way to do this through the UI though. ...Show All

• Lincbarr Installation Issue - CSF 3.0

  Hi, I have successfully installed CSF 3.0 developer edition which is downloaded from msdn. After installation the virtual directory Session30 has been created in IIS. But whe i try to browse the url http://localhost/Session30/SessionManagerAdmin.ashx , i'm getting the following error message: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found Could anyone help me out Rgs Vasu Can you please verify the ASP.NET version of the VRoot Session30 is 2.0.50727 You can find that in the ASP.NET tab which can be found in the property window of the Virtual directory "Session30" To get this kind of error tt is possible you might be running under .NET Framework 1. ...Show All

• fschaller Help pls: Problem adding custom Field type in create column in a list settings

  Error: Field type PhoneNumber is not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete this field Hi I create an ascx with its cs code behind, i copy the ascx to D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES then i create this xml that I copy to D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML (the file is bellow in the post). After I create my cs file with all the methods. I build my project, then copy the dll file to the d:/windows/assembly. But when I try to add the column to my list i get the error . Field type PhoneNumber is not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete this field Here is the xml ...Show All

• Roger Mitchell Workflow and Form Library?

  It appears I cannot create a workflow (using Sharepoint Designer 2007) in a form library. I have success with document libraries. Can anyone verify this that's true tho ...Show All

• spi How to chack performance tunning of cache site of sharepoint?

  is there any methodalogy to check out cache performance through the performance counter You may want to look at the MOM pack for MOSS they may have counters to evaluate. ...Show All

• nbrege xp files & transfer settings problem

  Hi, I had a problem with my PC and I basically had to reformat and then reinstall xp and the other pre-installed software. I used the files and transfer settings wizard to copy my stuff onto the desktop. I then burnt the dat files onto 3 dvds ready to transfer after the computer was reformatted etc. Anyway, the reformat and reinstallation was all smooth. I opened up the transfer files & settings to copy the old stuff to my new pc. However it keeps coming up with the following: "The location you specified does not contain stored information. Please type a valid path into the edit box. If you entered a path to a folder on a removable disk, the disk must be in the drive." I have tried copying the files into the USMT. ...Show All

• jsedlak How to configure Alternate Access Mapping for MySite and Search Center

  Good day, I hv setup a dev site called http://portal . Then I configure the "Alternate Access Mapping" for the site as https://portal.xyz.com for Internet and https://portal for Extranet. All works well for the dev site except MySite and Search Center Site. MySite is configured to http://portal:80/sites/mysite and Search Center is configured to http://portal:80/sites/SearchCenter/Pages . I accessed the dev site through https://portal.xyz.com , but when I click on My Site, it will redirect me back to http://portal/sites/mysite instead of https://portal.xyz.com/sites/mysite . Is there any configuration that I can set to configure the Alternate Access Mapping for that as well I tried to configure through My Site Settings i ...Show All

• kangalert Configuration Wizard failed - hosts file missing

  Hi, I just want to let you know, that during the Configuration Wizard of MOSS EE 2007 (English) the configuration failed because of a missing C:\Windows\System32\Drivers \etc\hosts file! I created the hosts file and added 2 entries: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 <machine name> And ran the Configuration Wizard again - with success. Before installation I added the server role "Active Directory", maybe the DNS Server installation removed the file, I'm not sure, I have never meet that the hosts file is missing! System: Win2k3 Server Enterpriser Edition (SP1) Server roles: Application Server Active Directory DNS Server I found that once myself Kevin but only once. I have ...Show All

• Lotfi1 ObjectDataSource in a web part?

  Hello All, My code below works perfectly when I put it in an ASP.NET application (default.aspx code behind for example), but as soon as I put it in a web part (compile it into an assembly and place it into GAC) I get this error: "The type specified in the TypeName property of ObjectDataSource" ObjectDataSource objDataSrc = new ObjectDataSource ( "Fully qualified name of my type" , "select method name" ); objDataSrc.SelectParameters.Add( "Perosnid" , "123" ); GridView grdViewPersons = new GridView (); grdViewPersons.AutoGenerateColumns = false ; grdViewPersons .DataSource = objDataSrc; grdViewPersons.DataBind(); this .form1.Controls.Add(grdViewPersons ...Show All

• Dave-g-o How to specify particular MOSS site using Lists.GetListItems?

  This must be a stupid question since I can't find any answers out there: How should I specify the location of the list (document library) used in Lists.GetListItems Even though all MOSS sites have a _vti_bin/Lists.asmx, I'm assuming I should always use the generic http://servername/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx to connect since adding sites as a web reference would require hard-coding. Also, if I try the hard-coding method, I still can't figure it out. I'm also assuming that Document Libraries are lists too and can be accessed this way. All the examples suggest just the list name: listService.GetListItems( "Our Documents", null, ndQuery, ndViewFields, null, ndQueryOptions, null); I've tried this with every ...Show All