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Iterating through Users in a SharePoint Group

I've had some questions with respect to iterating through users in a group, in some of my previous posts I talked about what to do if the users specify an AD group instead of the SharePoint group (check Sharepoint Workflow (WWF) and Active Directory ). Please bear in mind that it's considered best practice to only deal with SharePoint Groups when it comes to user manipulation in SharePoint, meaning that regardless whether you chose to have SSO (Single Sign-On) configured or not, when looking...
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Building Event Handlers/Handling Recursive Event handlers

This is the second post in the line where I will release the code used in the demos in my last talk. On several occasions I was asked to explain how to handle, let's say if you need to create a n event handler that will need to, under some condition, create additional items on a sharepoint list when a certain item is added to the same list without it continuously re-firing the same event (perpetual loop). You can do that if you want to play and you'll see that SharePoint has a safety that...

Developing SharePoint Solutions and Office Business Applications (OBA) Using .Net

I will be presenting at the following event. Come and join us!!!!!!! Official Invitation as follows: Office Business Applications are a new breed of application that help businesses unlock the value of their line-of-business (LOB) systems and turn document-based business processes into real applications. OBAs leverage the client, server, services and technologies of the 2007 Microsoft Office system to solve business problems. Applications and documents can be extended to add enterprise-specific features...

Getting started with Event Handlers in Sharepoint 2007

Maybe you were tasked to provide certain functionality for your SharePoint 2007 instance? Maybe windows workflow foundation doesn't cut it? Or you just need a simpler solution? Event Handlers might be an answer that you're looking for! For those of you that don't know what an Event Handler is here's the Wikipedia Definition: "In computer programming, an event handler is an asynchronous callback subroutine that handles inputs received in a program. Each event is a piece of application...