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People/Group field in SharePoint allow us to keep adding the existing user(s) or group(s) into the document library or list item. Let’s think, I have a list where one field name i.e. Assigned To (reviewer) is type of People/Group. Objective is when I assign someone to review the list item, and then an email notification [...]

Today, I’m going to demonstrate one useful and simple custom method against SPList object which could be reusable in other SharePoint applications. The objective is to verify whether any item is exist in the existing SharePoint list. And if the item is not exist in the SharePoint list, let an entry of the new inserted [...]

We can assume many things in life, but not everything match with our assumption. Similar story with SPList.Fields properties. Fields is a properties of the SPList objects which actually returns the SPFieldCollection object which also basically inherited  from SPBaseCollection.
From .NET perspective, we can use indexer or name to get the actual Field object from the [...]

This is very common requirement in web world to open any link in a new window. The simplest approach is to use JavaScript to implement same. The same is applicable in SharePoint as well. There are different gateways you can implement JavaScript in SharePoint pages. You can use master page, layout page or any OTB [...]

SharePoint tools and utilities software are very essential for SharePoint web farm maintenance, development and migration purpose. There are lots of tools and utilities software available around us, few of them are branded and few are tagged with Open Source. Obviously every software product has some good insight along with existing bugs.   In this post, [...]

On October 29th, Jie Li, Technical Product Manager, SharePoint at Microsoft has been announced the release of cumulative update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 at MS SharePoint blog.
Below the download Information:
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974989
Office SharePoint Server 2007 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974988

One of the most usable OOTB web parts in SharePoint is Content Query Web Part (CQWP). It has been hugely used in publishing sites. Designer as well as developer always prefer this OOTB component for branding or display the data into the dashboard.
CQWP is for to display the dynamic content in your site (within a [...]

On a fine morning, while I have started browsing my staging environment, I have stuck on one document library. AllItems view was not working there and displaying error RENDER FAILED. I remembered, last time we feed up around 2k data on this document library for test purpose.
My initial thought was somehow the document library has [...]

Last week, I came to know the article “Top 10 Best Practices for Document Libraries” published at officesharepointpro.com by Dan Holme. This is another great article print out from Dan’s pen. 
Dan has pointed out the top ten things which we must check and implement in SharePoint Document Library. Those lists are not everything we should [...]

This article is to address one of the very common errors in SPList which most of the SharePoint developer face while working with SPList object. Let me try to explain the scenario first and the error.
Let’s say we have a list name Registration which when submitted some kind of action item need to execute. Say, [...]