Using WSS on public sites means giving anonymous access to virtually all the pages in your site, including all the different list views and document libraries. People won't be able to do anything they are not allowed to because of security trimming,...
One of the things that can really help the performance of your site is caching. Going to the SharePoint database for every request to retrieve a file can be very expensive, particularly if once the file has been retrieved you need to process it fu...
XSLT allows you to to use the <xsl:import> directive to import additional XSL into your transformation. This can be really useful to pull in standard <xsl:template> sections into your own transform. This is good practice as it removes du...
ViewState is useful for saving a control's state across page post backs, but is does no good at all if you are navigating via links...the ViewState is only ever used during a POST not a GET. If you have a SharePoint publishing site (or even a collab...
Custom Actions are useful as they allow you to add functionality to a list without having to write any code. Using the UrlAction node of the CustmAction node you can create a link to a page passing the ListID using List={ListId} in the URL. Normal...
Its always frustrated me that the list box on the "Create Page" page always shows the content type first with brackets around it. I am always looking for the layout title, but when you have a number of available layouts based on a single...
I have updated the JavaScript which makes the left navigation on a standard SharePoint site expandable. This new version 'remembers' the width between page views and also works when the TreeView is not present. You can download the new JavaScript f...
I have been working a lot with document libraries recently, large ones with lots of sub-folders. I enabled TreeView navigation to ease navigation around the different folders, but was hampered by the width of the left navigation. The fixed width a...
The next version of .Net contains a new DLL called WindowsBase. This DLL contains a new namespace called System.IO.Packaging which contains lots of useful classes for manipulating Word documents in the docx format.
Essentially a .docx aocument is...
Recently a client was finding it difficult to edit HTML in a publishing page when the HTML was lengthy and went over a page in the browser. Basically the floating toolbar of the Rich Text Editor (RTE) in SharePoint went out of view as the page scr...