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February Cumulative Update Uber Package
In my post a week ago I announced that the February Cumulative update was available for download but it could only be used by users who had the December Cumulative update applied. Microsoft said that they would create an uber package and it is available Read More...
Disabling the MySite link for all your users
Did you ever have a problem with your mysite? Well we did! The customer wanted a Citrix webpart on their mysite. I did not recommend it but still they wanted it. The performance off the mysite fell down the roof and we had to disable the mysite so we Read More...
SharePoint Log Reader
When you are developing for SharePoint it happens that you have to check the SharePoint logs for errors. For one of my projects I had to check the log files on a regular basis and I found it horrible to read those files. If you try to read some of these Read More...
Placing webparts in the webpart gallery when you create a site.
Normally when you develop webparts you have to place the webparts in the webpart gallery before you can add them to your page. When you develop webparts for a customer this isn’t something you want. So I googled arround and found out that you can also Read More...
Enabling and Using site information in an ItemAdding event of a document library
In SharePoint 2007 you are able to write custom event handlers for a document library. Some of the different events you can rewrite are: ItemAdding: Before an item is added to the list. ItemAdded: When an item is added to the list. Besides these item Read More...
Useful things for your SharePoint VPC
On several sites there are postings about tools you could have on you SharePoint development VPC. That’s why I thought lets post what I have got on my development VPC. If you do not have a Virtual PC with SharePoint you can take a look at the following Read More...
Disabling SharePoint errors (An unexpected error has occurred)
One of the most annoying things I came across when I was developing for SharePoint 2007 is the error: “An unexpected error has occurred”. You can get rid of this by disabling the custom errors. You can do this in two steps: Step 1: Change 1: < SafeMode Read More...

Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag
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