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Speeding up SharePoint (or any IIS hosted website): A client of mine recently complained about the speed of their SharePoint portal. After playing around I found this very simple and useful solution to the client's problem. This is not SharePoint specific and can be applied to any site hosted in IIS. Add the following http header to the list in IIS cache-control: (name) max-age=3600, no-check (value) What this does is to tell IIS to stop and update static content like images on every load. Simple and effective. Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
Posted 20 June 2008 06:12 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: C#, Development, SharePoint, programming, asp.net, .net, WebServices

Updating of SharePoint tasks: I recently developed a basic approval workflow for a client that entails an InfoPath form dynamically updating the workflow task depending on a radio button selection - via a web service. With this process I kept getting an error saying something like the following: The Web application at SOMEURL could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application...
Posted 11 June 2008 02:53 AM by riaan | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: C#, Microsoft, Development, SharePoint, programming, .net, WebServices