This blog post is a contribution from Kevin Jacob Kurian, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. When we edit a single instance of a recurring event, it actually creates a new instance of the event and deletes the old one.  The old instance is deleted by setting certain attributes...

This blog post is a contribution from Bharat Rathod, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. We often find that ListView control is used to display data which is fetched from a database directly.  After reading a lot of articles where I could not find the specific article that talks...

This blog post is a contribution from David Wilborn, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Although it’s mentioned in the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges documentation , I find that there is still often a lack of clarity for developers when using SPSite and SPWeb objects in conjunction...

This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team.  The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution for the community to better understand the internals...

This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team.  The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution for the community to better understand the internals...

This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team.  The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution for the community to better understand the internals...

This blog post is a contribution from Balaji Sadasivan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Issue In order to audit workflows, we require to see the name of the workflow in the history list. Cause Currently the workflow history has no provision to show the workflow name. Workaround...

This blog post is a contribution from Balaji Sadasivan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Puzzle In MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 you can reroute the user to a custom page after they complete uploading documents to a document library to by changing the source parameter in the query...

This blog post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Scenario: In SharePoint, the sign out is complete only when you actually close the browser window.  As shown below, SharePoint asks you to close the browser after sign out: “You must close...

This post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In this blog I will describe how to develop a custom site event receiver to prevent users from deleting a SharePoint site. By default, any user with the sufficient permission can delete a site....

This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Note: The below walk-through is based off of a publishing site. We can include symbols in rich text editor in MOSS 2007 in just 3 easy steps. Step1 Copy the image (symbol.jpg) to C:\Program...

This post is a contribution from Nishand Vasudevan, an escalation engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The property bag is intended for small properties, like configuration or other settings.  Accessing the property bag will require its own query so it comes with performance penalty...