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Failure in loading assembly
In the application event log I found several errors that were pointing to assemblies that I wasn’t using anymore. The error looks like the message below: Error: Failure in loading assembly: Assembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=Token. Read More...
Hiding the ‘Create Site’ option in the Site Actions menu
Within SharePoint you have something called custom actions . You can use custom actions to create custom menu items within SharePoint. Besides custom actions you also have hide custom actions to hide custom actions. With the hide custom actions you can Read More...
Fully certified SharePoint Specialist
It took me long enough to get all off the WSS and MOSS certificates but today I finally passed the last exam (Configuring Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 : 70-631) and I have to say that that is one of the hardest exams for a developer. Know up to .NET Read More...
Bulk deletion of SPListItems (SPListItemCollection)
A few days ago I had to develop a TimerJob that deletes a large number of items from a SharePoint list. My first idea was to iterate trough the list items and then call the delete method of the items that needed to be deleted. Doing this was a major performance Read More...
February Cumulative Update
The new cumulative update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services is available for you to apply to you server farm. The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog states: “However, unless customers are affected by the problem described Read More...
SharePoint prompts to login multiple time when opening a document
One of our most annoying issues we came across in one of our projects was the problem that SharePoint kept prompting us to login when we were opening a document. This problem ruined the user experience, so we began a search for possible solutions. In Read More...
Changing the user that runs the Application Pool
For a project we were working on we created a web application with a wrong application pool Identity. We wanted to set this correctly and we thought we could just change the application pool Identity in IIS, but we were wrong. What happens was that the Read More...
Windows SharePoint Services on Vista
It has been there for a while WSS on Vista but I never tried it out. Last night I had some spare time so I thought let’s give it a try on my home desktop machine where I’m running Vista Business. At first I thought I would get in a lot of trouble installing Read More...
Problems with Re-installing Windows SharePoint Services
Problems can occur when you are trying to re-install Windows SharePoint Services. The problem occurred when I was trying to install the Dutch version off WSS after I uninstalled the English version. The Installation of WSS went ok, but when I tried to Read More...
Useful tool for multiple language deployment
For a current project I had to deploy some generated lists (stp templates) on another version of SharePoint (Dutch version). Because I’m a beginning programmer in SharePoint I didn’t know that that would cause a problem. Deploying generated list files Read More...
Silverlight in SharePoint
At the SharePoint Conference 2008, Bill Gates announced that it is possible to display applications that are developed in Silverlight in SharePoint 2007. Employees of U2U developed a blueprint for displaying these applications. At the following site: Read More...

Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag
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