Medhat Elmasry

On Sunday September 20, 2009 I moved all my blog postings from this SharePoint 2007 server to blogger.com. The new URL is http://medhatelmasry.blogspot.com/. I have nothing against SharePoint 2007 as it served me quite well. I decided to move my b...

Control Panel => User Accounts   Click "Turn User Account Control on or off"   Uncheck "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer"   Click on "OK" button...

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...

VanSPUG (Vancouver SharePoint User Group) is less than one year old. I can proudly say that I was a catalyst in the establishment of this young user group when I helped Peter McFarlane organize the launch event on September 17, 2008 at my BCIT w...

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 ...

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The quick and dirty way is to go into the .NET command prompt and type the following:   sn -T MyDotNetAssembly.dll   The above utilizes the strong name utility that comes with the .NET Framework....

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...