I will be Ineta speaker at the Macedonian Code Camp in 2 weeks organized by the Macedonian.Net User Group. This is my third stay in Macedonia, and I really love it.

More details here.

I will present 2 intensive sessions on Sharepoint.

 

I’m currently working on a screencast for Microsoft Belux to better illustrate it. Stay tuned !

I shortly described it in a previous post.

The SPWeb has a  RoleDefinitions property that return a list of SPRoleDefinition.

Each SPRoleDefinition is a permission level ; for instance in the next code snippe,t web.Roledefinitions will return a collection of 6 roles; they match the permission Levels of the web site :

If you want to assign a permission level to a user on a specific list, you need to create a new RoleAssignement (SPRoleAssignment class) that can be added to the SPList. The new permission must be linked to the role assignment by adding it to a collection called RoleDefinitionBindings.

 

SPWeb web =SPControl.GetContextWeb(HttpContext.Current); //  use RunWithElevatedPrivilege here
SPList myList = web.Lists["MyList"];
myList.BreakRoleInheritance(false);
SPRoleDefinition fullRoleDef = web.RoleDefinitions["Full Control"];
SPUser user = web.EnsureUser(“LITWARE\SERGE”);
SPRoleAssignment newRoleassignment= new SPRoleAssignment(user);
newRoleassignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(fullRoleDef);
myList.RoleAssignments.Add(newRoleassignment);
myList.Update();

 

just a simple bug fix.This utility allows Sharepoint administrators and developers  to download a solution package from the Sharepoint solution store (for instance to compare it with another one); I’ve recently faced this situation: we had a solution package in our staging farm, but we wanted to compare the files (features) with our development code.

I’ve created 2 versions of this utility : a Windows Form version and a stsadm extension .

Run the Windows Form version on the Sharepoint farm

 

 

Select a package and click on the “Download package” button, to bring it to the file system.Easy ?

To use the stsadm version :

1. register the DownloadWSPStsadm.dll into the gac..
2. copy the stsadmcommands.downloadwsp.xml file to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG
3. run the stsadm –o downloadsolution option with the –filename and –storeto parameters as described in the picture below (the destination directory must be created before running the command)

 

 

It is still a beta product (v0.8)…

Before writing code for rendering its output to a web part or a Sharepoint List, I’m still improving its kernel. (In the meantime the output can be redirected to an ascii file). Fixed a bug (display list item ‘filename’ in document libraries and not ‘Title’), and I’ve added a new option ‘raw’ which displays the ‘raw state’ or the workflow (interesting for developers).

Next version will be an stsadm extension.

Using the ‘error’ option :

In the generated Ascii file, you file get this :

 

Using the ‘all’ option:

You will get this :

Using the ‘raw’ option :

Another WebCast I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I show how to start  with Ajax in Windows Sharepoint Services v3.

Several customers asked me to create a  tool that displays the status of running workflows (running on faulting). One of my customer has several hundreds of workflows running at the same time.

That why I’ve created this utility (still in console mode)  and I’ve uploaded to Codeplex : WorkflowExplorer.

Showing all running workflows :

Showing faulting workflows in a site collection :

 

I had the pleasure to post my 1001th answer to the Microsoft Sharepoint newsgroups this morning and to be in the top answerers during the last 3 months.

Another chopstick I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I give a quick overview of aspx association forms for Windows Sharepoint Services v3.

Another chopstick I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I give a quick overview of the Visual Studio Extensions 1.3 (March CTP) for Windows Sharepoint Services.

The other day, my team had a solution package deployed to a Sharepoint farm, and we wanted to compare this solution with another version; but we couldn't download the deployed version from the solution store.
That's why I've created a small utility that can be used as a stsadm.exe extension or as a windows form. Basic, but useful...

One of the chopsticks I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I illustrate how to fix the AspxCollectFeedback workflow sample provided with the Sharepoint (wss v3) sdk.