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The official blog of Chandrasekar, Microsoft SharePoint Consultant

SharePoint Custom Workflow action to get a list item as an attachment in another list

Using SharePoint Designer, what if we want to have a create a workflow that gets a list item as an...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/18/2009

Understanding MCMS File Cache

How MCMS file upload works: When a file is uploaded, MCMS adds and saves them to the database. Once...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/11/2009

BDC Web Part - Column filtering

When a BDC web part is mapped with an instance of BDC Application Definition file ( that uses SQL...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/11/2009

Let’s discuss about some BDC Web parts !

Business Data Actions Web Part : ========================== Business Data Actions Web part is used...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/09/2009

Using User control (Web service call ) in SharePoint Web part

Everyone knows how easy it is to use an user control( web service call) in normal ASP.NET...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/05/2009

SPS 2003 to MOSS Migration – Applying the same CSS

Many think that just to get same look and feel for any migrated site, we can directly modify Out of...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/03/2009

How BIG is your SharePoint

Size of Site collection: string siteCollectionURL = “https://localhost:80/sites/TestSite”;...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/03/2009

BDC Error Messages

· BDC Tool Design Surface Error Message : “Could not process Table ‘xyz’. Make sure you have SELECT...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/02/2009

Workflow problem in sending Email attachments of large file size

When a large file size ( typically > 1 MB ) is sent as an Email attachment through Workflow, we...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/02/2009

CAS in SharePoint

Here i'm going to explain about using Code Access Security (CAS) policy configuration for locking...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/01/2009

MCMS 2001 : Adding flash objects on the content page

When we try to add a flash object in the Edit mode of a CMS page, it doesn’t work as expected. We...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 05/29/2009

Programmatically adding a person or group to a list ( People/Group Column) who is not a part of the Site Collection.

Consider there is a custom list that contains multiple custom columns with one of the column being...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/23/2009

Workflow Task Lock issue !

Sometimes when the number of items in the list gets high ( say more than 1500 ) we might get to see...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 02/26/2009

Workflow Tasks creation timeout problem

In MOSS 2007, when we run an instance of workflow that creates N number of tasks, sometimes it could...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 01/27/2009

Deploying solution having custom site definition specific to a web application and also to front end servers.

When we deploy the solution that contains custom site definition in central adminstration, it gets...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 01/26/2009

Anonymous access in BDC

When anonymous users log into the SharePoint site which has BDC web parts, you will see the error...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/19/2008

BDC : How to Create Filters in ADF manually

When an ADF is generated using BDC Editor tool, by default no filters will be added to any method...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/07/2008

Business Data Catalog

Its all about BDC !

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/07/2008

Content Type - Setting up default content type programmatically

Here’s the sample to add and set a new content type as a default content type to a document library...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/25/2008

WSS 3.0 - Valid properties to be used in FullText Query Search in Search.asmx

When we have valid SQL query something like ““Select Category from Scope()” and execute them using...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/24/2008

Business Data Catalog with Oracle

There are multiple scenarios in BDC, where we can see this error message “An error occurred while...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 07/19/2008

Custom site definition - Using GetAvailableWebTeplates / GetWebTemplates

In SharePoint object model when the following sequence of steps happen, the deployed custom site...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 07/19/2008

Calling OpenBinaryStream throws COM exception - 0x80070092

Create an instance of SPFile using GetFile method and pass the GUID of the file in its parameter....

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 07/19/2008

Deleting config values specific to a web application

Many a times, developers unknowingly add inappropriate values in the web config file of the...

Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/08/2008

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