After activating a custom SharePoint feature I created, the web application I activated it on stopped responding, and gave me a 403 forbidden error. This link from MSDN (see the Notes section) helped me to identify that the NTFS permissions were screwed up on the feature folder and files (since I created them through windows…

After finishing up a custom timer job project, I relied on several resources to get the job done. here are some links I found very helpful: Andrew Connel’s articles: http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/01/10/5704.aspx http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CreatingCustomSharePointTimerJobs.aspx http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/07/02/6067.aspx http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/04/15/More-help-on-creating-custom-timer-jobs-and-a-useful.aspx MSDN article – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx Logging – http://trentacular.com/2008/12/sharepoint-logging-and-microsofts-trace-log-provider/ Scheduling using more natural language – http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2007/01/16/spschedule-fromstring-recurrencevalue-syntax-format-for-recurrence-value.aspx Feature Help: xmlns comment at bottom of this…

I designed a form for a client that had several different views, and I needed a way to display a specific view when the form was opened. This was easy, but took me a bit to figure out. Go to Tools > Form Options. Click the Open and Save option. Click the Rules button, and…

If you’ve used the InfoPath Contact Selector before, you might have seen that it does not support validation like other InfoPath controls do. There is no option on the Properties dialog for the control to make it a required field. To work around this, I used a combination of rules and conditional formatting to prevent…

One client had a problem with profile and membership synchronization, and the “My SharePoint Sites” links would not appear for anyone. This also affected the “SharePoint Sites” and “Membership” web parts on users’ MySites – no SharePoint related links would show up in these parts. We verified that users were explicitly added into the “Members”…