For SharePoint-specific questions, please see the SharePoint Stack Exchange (http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com) site. Use this tag for programming questions which may involve SharePoint. Microsoft SharePoint is a platform and a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration ...
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What are your biggest complaints about Sharepoint? [closed]
I'm looking into using SharePoint (WSS 3.0, specifically) for the document library and discussion board functionalities.
I'd like to ask those of you who have experience in SP (MOSS or WSS, since we ...
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What is Microsoft Sharepoint? [closed]
I hear the name Microsoft Sharepoint being thrown around a lot yet I am still not sure what its for and why I hear a lot of big companies use it. In short, the questions are, what is sharepoint and ...
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SharePoint interview questions [closed]
Let's have a list of some good interview questions for SharePoint developers. Please provide one question per entry, and if possible, the answers.
Also, please feel free to suggest corrections if the ...
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How good/bad is sharepoint programming? [closed]
I got a job offer today for a position as a SharePoint developer. One of my friends is telling me that sharepoint is a big mess and not something I would want to be doing.
What are some of your ...
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Have you used a wiki in your project or group? [closed]
The workgroup at my company is considering creating a wiki to store information that everyone may find useful. It would contain anything from tips/links on new technologies used on projects to ...
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How do I perform WIF/claims impersonation without the claim being mapped to an AD account?
I need to perform search impersonation in SharePoint 2010 for Claims users. To put this in context, I would like to first state how I get this to work with Windows accounts and then discuss Claims / ...
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Using Asp.Net MVC with SharePoint
Is it possible to use the Asp.Net MVC framework within SharePoint sites?
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ASP.net page without a code behind
I have an ASP.Net page with a C# code behind.
However, I've been asked to not use a code behind - so that it will be easier to deploy in SharePoint.
Is there a way to include the C# code in the ...
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Upload a file to SharePoint through the built-in web services
What is the best way to upload a file to a Document Library on a SharePoint server through the built-in web services that version WSS 3.0 exposes?
Following the two initial answers...
We definitely ...
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How is SharePoint perceived in your company? [closed]
UPDATE An interesting time to revisit this question. Is perception still the same now that SharePoint 2010 is beginning to take hold? Certainly implementing 2010 is not without its own challenges, ...
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4answers
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Bypass invalid SSL certificate errors when calling web services in .Net
We are setting up a new SharePoint for which we don't have a valid SSL certificate yet. I would like to call the Lists web service on it to retrieve some meta data about the setup. However, when I try ...
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4answers
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Serialization in C# without using file system
I have a simple 2D array of strings and I would like to stuff it into an SPFieldMultiLineText in MOSS. This maps to an ntext database field.
I know I can serialize to XML and store to the file ...
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Sharepoint web services — The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Ntlm'. The authentication header received from the server was 'NTLM'
I know there's a lot of questions on SO similar to this, but I couldn't find one for this particular issue.
A couple of points, first:
I have no control over our Sharepoint server. I cannot tweak ...
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9answers
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SharePoint for a C# ASP.NET Developer [closed]
I've been asked to create a website in SharePoint within the next couple of weeks or so and I'm entirely new to SharePoint.
Does anyone have any good examples/tutorials on how to do some basic ...
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Must Have SharePoint dev tools [closed]
I have only been doing development work in SharePoint the last 6 months. Coming from a client server background the tooling situation in SharePoint was a rude surprise, but I think that I have by now ...
