SharePoint

On my latest project I’m working on I was having serious trouble with SharePoint Designer. As soon as I opened a certain page it hung up, crashed, collapsed and in many cases it wasn’t responding. I’ve checked the proper syntax of the code (there was some custom XSLT), CSS, etc. Even tested the code in [...]

This is an update to one of my older posts – SharePoint 3 is bound to host headers – I was explaining the problem how the SharePoint binds itself to one host header and a simple trick to avoid this. There is a better way to add another host header to the web application:

On the [...]

Recently I wanted to add some text descriptions to the "NewForm.aspx" and "EditForm.aspx". I remembered a trick Pedro Serrano showed me some time ago. It works for SharePoint 2.0 and SharePoint 3.0.

All you need to add to the page are the   ?PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2   parameters.

This opens the Task [...]

I’ve already posted about the Free Download Manager. Recently I’ve checked and they have a new version, which enables you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Blennus, DailyMotion, LiveDigital and MySpaces. Probably the list of supported sites will keep expanding.

It enables you to automatically convert the downloaded Flash video (.flv) to some of the popular video [...]

With the old SharePoint we were using host headers much more freely. When the site was extended, all you needed to do is add additional host headers in the Internet Information Services console.

With SharePoint 3 the story is a bit different. When you create a site with host header through SharePoint Central Administration, that [...]

Today I’ve received another of the cases when SharePoint (v2) couldn’t connect to the configuration database. This can be a common problem but it’s not so horrible to solve it.

The reason for this is that SharePoint lost the connection to the database.

Reasons may be the following:

SQL or WMSDE database may not be running
IIS may be [...]

If you’re like me using SharePoint over the Internet (for extranet, and other purposes) and if you’re opening the same site a lot of times, you might want the computer to remember the username and password for that site. But the computer simply doesn’t want to remember the username and password…
Although many do not recommend [...]