Validation controls are pretty cool
Published Mon, Jan 5 2009 4:24 PM | ben.barefield
I've been reading an ASP.Net book lately and just got to the information about Validation controls. These seem like a pretty sweet way to get a lot done with very little code. For example, say a that I want a text field that is required, all I have...
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Cross-List References
Published Tue, Dec 23 2008 4:00 PM | ben.barefield
There are situations where it is useful to link data in one list to another list. For example, if you have a list of projects and a list of tasks. Some of the tasks are going to be associated with a project. You can easily create a reference to the project...
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Permission Inheritance in SharePoint
Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 3:04 PM | ben.barefield
In my last post I mentioned that it would be nice to be able to use a security group in other site collections. This was so that I wouldn't have redundant security groups to provide access to the Web Part on the home page and to the actual site. It...
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SharePoint Sites and User Specific Web Parts
Published Tue, Nov 4 2008 6:08 PM | ben.barefield
I'm not quite running with SharePoint yet, but I have definitely improved. It is quite a powerful tool, if you just know where to look. At SRT we have multiple customers, and would like to have pages for each of them. We would like these customers...
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Walking with SharePoint
Published Fri, Oct 31 2008 2:28 PM | ben.barefield
To be overly cliche: you have to crawl before you walk, and walk before you run. I'm not sure it could be said that I'm walking in the SharePoint world yet, but I have made some steps forward. Last time I was able to get a simple wiki up and running...
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Monday PDC
Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 3:35 PM | ben.barefield
I don't have a lot to say about the keynote from Monday's PDC. The world is relying more and more on the internet, and Microsoft is now pushing that way as well. I found it interesting that Ray Ozzie (I believe) said that Azure is being built...
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My first steps in SharePoint
Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 2:20 PM | ben.barefield
To expand my horizons and to increase the knowledge bank of SRT, I decided to dive into SharePoint and find out what it is all about. My first step in the SharePoint world was not actually in SharePoint; I first had to setup a virtual machine to run Windows...
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