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Logging in Context

    I think everyone agrees that proper error trapping and logging is a good idea - how else are you supposed to be able to work out what has gone wrong on a production system where you can't simply connect Visual Studio up and start debugging...

Posted on 11/10/2008 at 10:14 AM by sug:nigel_witherdin@hotmail.com

Kyle Schaeffer

Design Minute: Custom Page Content Styles

Trying to standardize header and section title styles in SharePoint content is difficult, especially if your content authors are not CSS- or HTML-savvy.  When creating heading styles, many authors will use the font size and color controls to create...

Posted on 11/10/2008 at 9:37 AM by Kyle Schaeffer

lisa melito

Traitor

I'm a traitor. I've moved my blog posts (all 3 plus a new one) to a new location. Even though I like posting about SharePoint using SharePoint, I needed a bit more control over my blog :)   I still plan on using the site - it's a great community of...

Posted on 11/6/2008 at 8:32 PM by lisa melito

Sean Bordner

Social & Professional Networking with SharePoint

Using SharePoint as a platform to support your organization's Social Networking needs is well worth looking at.  SharePoint offers many Social Networking capabilities including activity tracking, colleagues, groups, memberships, profiles and...

Posted on 10/24/2008 at 3:04 PM by Sean Bordner

Ann Wallinger

Infopath timeout issues

I have an infopath form that is quite lengthy and it takes users a long time to fill it out. Some users longer than others...like 2 hours. They finally get through the thing and hit submit and oh no!! Critical Error: There has been an error while...

Posted on 10/23/2008 at 6:35 PM by Ann Wallinger

Kyle Schaeffer

All About Tabless Column Design

There are a number of ways to create vertical columns in your XHTML design without using the <table> tag and the horrendous amount of HTML that always seems to accompany it. Each method listed here is superior in various situations, so...

Posted on 10/16/2008 at 5:10 PM by Kyle Schaeffer

Ann Wallinger

Unknown Error (Object reference not set to an instance...) when trying to add a heading or link or browse to sharepoint directories

This was one of the stranges issues/fixes so far. I was having a problem with a site where every time I clicked Browse to see the sharepoint directories (for example when you go to add a link or add a heading in navigation) I would get an Unknown...

Posted on 10/16/2008 at 1:26 PM by Ann Wallinger

Ann Wallinger

Unexpected Error when starting out of the box workflow.

If you get an unexpected error when trying to start an out of the box workflow (for example you choose approval workflow and as soon as you click next you get an error) check out your web.config and look for this:   broken: <pages...

Posted on 10/14/2008 at 10:02 PM by Ann Wallinger

Ann Wallinger

2436 Access Denied to Crawler

Getting one of these? Event Type: WarningEvent Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 SearchEvent Category: Gatherer Event ID: 2436User:  N/AComputer: <computer>Description:The start address contentdbid= cannot be crawled. Context:...

Posted on 10/8/2008 at 11:53 PM by Ann Wallinger

Sean Bordner

What Internet Search Engines Care About

Over this past year I’ve sat through a lot of “SEO” lectures (MS Conferences, User Group Conferences, Best Practices Conferences, you name it…) which frankly taught me one very important thing – there’s an awful lot of bad information and bad...

Posted on 10/6/2008 at 6:45 PM by Sean Bordner

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