Medhat Elmasry

In SharePoint one can subscribe to any document libraray or list to be sent alerts when changes occur such us additions, deletions, and updates. This is done by choosing "Actions" => "Alert Me".   If one wishes not to recei...

The Entity Framework is considered to be the modern day successor to "LINQ to SQL". If you wish to use this technology in a SharePoint 2007 web part you will need to tweak your web.config file to accomodate the new assemblies that are as...

This is much easier than I had imagined. At first I thought I need to do some programming with the SharePoint Object Model APIs. It turned out to be nothing of the sort.   Let us assume that you have a photograph located in your picture library ...

The problem is becuase of a line in web.config in WSS root folder which is:   <tagMapping> <add tagType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataSource, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ...

I have figured out how to trim the menu items on the web page.I need to add the following element to the web.config file <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true"> <providers> <add name=&quo...

WSS 3.0 does not have a mechanism for tracking who downloads which files with authenticated users. When I got confronted with this task, I decided to create a web user control that reads all the files in a document library and subsequently display...

Here's the code for deleting a field named "phone" in list "myList" on a site with URL http://mysite/:     try {    using (SPSite sitecollection = new SPSite("http://mysite/"))  {        using (SPWeb web = sitecoll...

What do you do if you have a long SharePoint 2007 survey and you want to break it up into separate pages such that the user needs to click the "Next" button?   Solution:   You must use branching on selected questions for this. All b...

A straightforward way of sending email from within a SharePoint 2007 application is to use the Object Model. Here is some C# code that will do it for you:   bool isAppendHtmlTag = true;bool isHtmlEncode = false;string recipient = "whoever@w...

It is always a good idea to lock down SharePoint sites such that users do not see more information than they need to. At the organization where I work, we have a plethora of SharePoint groups. With any new website that gets created, a user with fu...