Bhushan’s Tech Journal

nOne of requirement in my project was to edit the web.config of the current SharePoint web application. After some goggling I came to know that SharePoint provides us the powerful API (SPWebConfigModification)  to interact with web.config directly. So I will be explaining some points that how to use this API: I created a feature at … Read more

Hi , after some long discussions with my collegues and by observations when I came to know that sharepoint document libraries don’t have any UI to provide Item Level Security then I started thinking on this .all we know that as in Sharepoint list we can set the read and write security by using UI … Read more

Hi All,I was trying to get the username and the password for the sharepoint webapplication owner.after long searching in this thing I came up with one short custom solution and this can be done like this:SPWebApplication webApp = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication; string userName =webApp.ApplicationPool.Username; string password == webApp.ApplicationPool.Password; this gets the username and password of the Application … Read more

Hello All, We all know that sharepoint central administration is the great UI which allows us to to all administration operation for the sharepoint. but there is something more powerful command line tool in sharepoint known as STSADM. location:- 12\BIN\STSADM.EXE here is the link to all stsadm commands : all stsadm commands there is some … Read more

Hello All, actually I was trying my hands on the playing the animated images on the sharepoint web pages and was successful to show animated .gif files on web page. so , I was thinking to play some more animations on the sharepoint site without use of any other custom web part.what all I wanted … Read more

Hello All, before some days I was working with the SharePoint list items and their events. I just wanted to add small suggestion here that while working with the SPItemEventReceiver class or with the class that inherits from SPItemEventReceiver, we oftenly override the methods like ItemAdding , ItemAdded, ItemUpdating, ItemUpdated…..etc so many times scenario comes … Read more

Hello All, before some days I was working with the .aspx pages and got in the situation that I needed the source of the page from code. I am posting this small code snippet might be useful for others also (Note:- There might be some issue while getting html source from the web page due … Read more

Hello All,one of great tool which I know in sharepoint development is wspbuilder.It is console application that creates SharePoint Solutions files based on a folder structure.WSPBuilder will automatically traverse a “12” folder structure and creates a SharePoint solution manifest.xml and the wsp file based on the files it finds. Therefore you do not need the … Read more

Hello All,since many days I was searching on the way to perform sharepoint site backup and restore.I came across many documents and many web pages containing such Information.Finally I am summarizing the whole story which is very powerful. Sharepoint BackUp/Restore Using Central Administration Tool:As we all know that sharepoint central administration tool (UI) is a … Read more

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