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WSS / SharePoint: adding filtering capabilities to the CustomListViewWebPart – Filter Chain Fixed

I had a lot of good feedbacks on that SharePoint filtering articles series, the guys that wrote me spotted on a nasty bug on how I was building the chain of filters in CAML. In my code I did something like: <or><eq>…</eq><eq>…</eq><eq>…<...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06 Nov 2009
WSS / SharePoint : filter Users with the PeopleEditor

Given the ListViewWebPart with advanced filtering capabilities we wrote in the previous articles, we want to extend it again and provide the ability to select which user (or users) we will use to filter our data out. We can just write a simple web part that wraps the standard PeopleEditor control that...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 23 Sep 2009
WSS/SharePoint: adding filtering capabilities to the CustomListViewWebPart (Current User Filter and others)

Two of the biggest limitation of the standard ListViewWebPart is that it’s unable to filter the data using more than one single data provider and that it cannot use multiple values if the provider is capable of providing them (only the first value will be used). This is by design and you cannot avoid...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11 Sep 2009
WSS/SharePoint: create a Current User Filter Web Part

In MOSS we can filter some data on the currently logged User using the ‘Current User Filter Web Part’, unfortunately it’s not available in WSS. However building a simple Web Part that retriever the current user and that can be employed as a connection provider for other Web Parts isn’t that difficult...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07 Sep 2009
VSeWSS: Unable to start debugging.The web server is not configured correctly

If you ever tried to debug a SharePoint WebPart project created with VSeWSS, you might have faced this problem, and like me you might have lost a lot of time trying to check the IIS configuration following one of the many guides you can find around. Here are some links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03 Sep 2009
WSS/SharePoint: Create a Custom ListViewWebPart

The standard ListViewWebPart, while it does a lot of work under the hood, offers quite limited functionalities when it comes to programmatically filter the data: even if you can wire up a filter WebPart that provide multiple values, only the first one will be considered; plus you can set only a single...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02 Sep 2009
VSeWSS: how to solve the ‘SecurityException: Access denied’ issue

I started using VSeWSS as a support tool to develop a WSS/SharePoint application and I had to face some common issues. Sometimes when you try to ‘build and deploy’ – hum…this sentence sounds somewhat familiar – your solution you’ll get this exception reported (in the detailed log that...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 25 Aug 2009
VSeWSS: how to solve the WebNotFoundException

I started using VSeWSS as a support tool to develop a WSS/SharePoint application and I had to face some common issues. Sometimes when you try to ‘build and deploy’ your solution you’ll get this exception reported (in the detailed log that VSeWSS emits): Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.WebNotFoundException...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 25 Aug 2009
Get SharePoint Designer 2007 for Free

Today I was looking to download a trial version of SharePoint Designer 2007 to test it with a project I’ve under development and I discovered that since 31/03/2009 Microsoft is ‘giving it away’ for free. Here’s the link where you can download it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03 Apr 2009
Windows SharePoint Services - Developing and (Remotely) Debugging a Web Part

Previous articles of this series: Windows SharePoint Services - first setup SharePoint Services - setting up a Website with Forms Authentication There are a lot of tools available to help you build up and deploy new SharePoint solutions, the two biggest are: STSDEV - http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev VSeWSS...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03 Mar 2009

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