Posted April 1st, 2009 by Eric Webb
While working on a Sharepoint css file, I was able to use a nift regex instead of copying and pasting all over the place.
The tag I had looked like this:
#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 td h3 a
I wanted to add a tag on the end so that it looked like this:
#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 td h3 a, #MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ5 td h3 a
I used this Regex in Sharepoint Designer to do so:
Find
#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 {.*$}
Replace
#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 \1, #MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ5 \1
The “\1″ is called a “Tagged Expression”. It refers to the part of the value that is tagged in the “Find” syntax. You tag something using brackets, so in this case “.*$” was tagged, which corresponded to this part of the result ” td h3 a”. I had about 10 of these, so this saved me a lot of time.
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Posted March 18th, 2009 by Eric Webb
Found a fantastic logging framework for .Net:
http://www.theobjectguy.com/dotnetlog/
It’s very lightweight, has a ton of loggers already defined, and is easily extensibile. The feature that drew me to it was the ability to log to multiple places at once and to filter what type of entry gets logged to each location. For instance, I wanted to log everything to a text file but only log exceptions to the Windows Event Log. With this framework, it was no problem.
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Posted February 27th, 2009 by Eric Webb
I always wondered how to style a single webpart on the page.
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx
Been dealing with CSS for a long time and never knew about attribute selectors. Only issue is you can’t be in Quirks mode, which does mess up the rendering of some elements in SharePoint.
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Posted February 3rd, 2009 by Eric Webb
Just came across this today: http://www.blueprintcss.org
Looks like a good starting point for anyone developing a new website. I know from past experience that fighting with page layouts consumed a good chunk of time when I developed a website. So, anything that could save me time would be very useful.
Looks like it even works for Sharepoint!
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Posted January 22nd, 2009 by Eric Webb
Came across an interesting issue that I thought I would pass along. For the longest time I couldn’t see any Free/Busy information when I used the Outlook client to connect to Exchange. When I used webmail, the information was there.
I finally figured out why: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17227.
After I added the key, the info is available. Unbelievable.
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Posted January 20th, 2009 by Eric Webb
I just completed a medium sized upgrade (83GB) for a client from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 and thought I’d share a few things I took away from it:
- You’re probably going to need to create a new Site Definition to map to the old one if the old one is customized at all
- Set expectations with users upfront that while most of the things on the site will work correctly, there will be some issues (hopefully minor) that will have to be resolved post-upgrade. For some reason, on the site I upgraded parts of the site were upgraded flawlessly while other parts had issues.
- Perform the migration at least once in a dev environment and let users perform UAT. Make sure you document their issues and how you fixed them. This document proved invaluable once we did the production migration.
- The database upgrade option is by far the safest and is recommended.
Some helpful links:
http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_yeager/archive/2007/08.aspx <– This was, by far, the most useful
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/06/how-to-upgrade-an-area-based-on-a-custom-site-definition.aspx
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Posted January 17th, 2009 by Eric Webb
Here’s a new Sharepoint book that my manager Sean McDonough and John Ferringer co-wrote:
SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide
Book Description:
Microsoft’s SharePoint technology gives organizations access to a wide range of tools and functionality designed to encourage collaboration, manage documents, discover shared knowledge, and much more. As the use of these resources through SharePoint grows, so does an organization’s dependency upon the availability and reliability of its SharePoint infrastructure. Disaster recovery is not a new concept in the realm of information technology nor is it unique to SharePoint, but as with any specialized technical platform, disaster recovery planning for SharePoint presents unique challenges and approaches. The problem is that SharePoint disaster recovery is not as simple as backing up your discs or load balancing your servers. It requires specialized activities to save data for recovery and to subsequently properly recover that same data. SharePoint professionals need a cohesive and comprehensive resource that guides them through the steps of planning, implementing, and testing the right disaster recovery plan for their situation. The “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” provides such a resource. It provides a unique guidebook to all the necessary best practices, procedures, and tools for disaster recovery in SharePoint, such as how to plan for disaster recovery in SharePoint, and how to setup SharePoint, SQL Server, operating system, and file system backups step-by-step through SQL Server or STSADM.exe. The negative and positive aspects of every solution are detailed so that users can pick the disaster recovery plan that’s right for them. This is an essential guide for any IT professional tasked with protecting their organization’s valuable SharePoint data.
Amazon Link
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