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	<title>SharePoint @ Big Scholar</title>
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	<description>Developing, Configuring and Designing in SharePoint</description>
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		<title>Setting up a DNS server on Windows Server 2003</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2010/02/03/setting-up-a-dns-server-on-windows-server-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows Server 2003]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First check that DNS is installed...
Control Panel &#62;Add Remove Programs &#62; Add/Remove Windows Components
Ensure the Networking Services check box is checked, Click on Details and ensure the Domain Name System (DNS) is checked. If it isn't, check it and click OK. Windows will then install DNS on the server. You will then be prompted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Studio 2008 developed Custom Outlook Add-in not being called</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/11/visual-studio-2008-developed-custom-outlook-add-in-not-being-called/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Outlook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found that when I created a custom outlook add-in to run on the Send event, that it doesn't run when I deploy it on another machine (works fine on my own). After much research, I found that a requirement on the other machine is not included in the deployment files. We needed Extensibility.dll to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a custom add-in for Microsoft Oulook 2003 on Send event (or start or &#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/11/creating-a-custom-add-in-for-microsoft-oulook-2003-on-send-event-or-start-or/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/11/creating-a-custom-add-in-for-microsoft-oulook-2003-on-send-event-or-start-or/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Outlook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Visual Studio, create a new Project &#62; Other Project Types &#62; Extensibility &#62; Shared Add-in and select the application or applications you are writing the add-in for. In my case, the add in is written for Outlook, so I unchecked everything and selected Outlook only. Hit next, give it a name and description. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exporting and importing SharePoint sites</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/02/exporting-and-importing-sharepoint-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/02/exporting-and-importing-sharepoint-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SharePoint Web Parts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-document-size -propertyvalue 500000000
(hard limit of 500Mb)
 
Then to export the site and import it, run the following commands on your intranet
 
Note: you will need to give full control permissions to whoever is logged in on the intranet server for the site being imported to. What I did was to give full control to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating SharePoint user profiles using C# code</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/10/14/updating-sharepoint-user-profiles-using-c-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/10/14/updating-sharepoint-user-profiles-using-c-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SharePoint Web Parts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a quick code snippet for updating user profile information in SharePoint
    SPSite siteCollection = null;
    SPWeb web = null;
    siteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;
    web = siteCollection.RootWeb;
    web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
    SPList list = web.Lists["User Information List"];
    SPUser user = web.SiteUsers["DOMAIN\user"];
    SPListItem item = list.Items.GetItemById(user.ID);
    item["FirstName"] = "John";
    item["LastName"] = "Smith";
    item["WorkPhone"] = "55378008";
    item["Office"] = "BigScholar.com";
    item.Update();
The List [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uploading a file into a SharePoint document library with C# code</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/09/17/uploading-a-file-into-a-sharepoint-document-library-with-c-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/09/17/uploading-a-file-into-a-sharepoint-document-library-with-c-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SharePoint Document Library]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a small snippet of code to upload a file from the filesystem into a SharePoint document library:
    Stream fStream = File.OpenRead("C:\\Temp\\Filename.pdf");
    byte[] contents = new byte[fStream.Length];
    fStream.Read(contents, 0, (int)fStream.Length);
    fStream.Close();
    SPList list = web.Lists[DocumentLibraryListName];
    Hashtable properties = new Hashtable();
    properties.Add("Title", "This is the title");
    properties.Add("Other_x0020_Properties", "Some other property");
    SPFile destFile = list.RootFolder.Files.Add("Filename.pdf", contents, properties, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using C# to update windows registry</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/09/14/using-c-to-update-windows-registry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/09/14/using-c-to-update-windows-registry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows Registry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the code to update the registry:
string strPath = "Software\\Path\\To\\Registry\\Location";
RegistryKey regKeyAppRoot = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(strPath, true);
regKeyAppRoot.SetValue("Key1", "Value1");
regKeyAppRoot.SetValue("Key2", "Value2");
regKeyAppRoot.Close();
If the key doesn't exist, then you will get a null exception error: "System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." This just means that you have to create the key before you can update it.
RegistryKey rk = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding watermark to existing PDF files using iTextSharp</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/08/25/adding-watermark-to-existing-pdf-files-using-itextsharp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/08/25/adding-watermark-to-existing-pdf-files-using-itextsharp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This code will take a file as an input from the file system and add a watermark to that file.
    string FileLocation = "c:\\Temp\\SomeFile.pdf";
    string WatermarkLocation = "c:\\Temp\\watermark.gif";
    Document document = new Document();
    PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(FileLocation);
    PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(pdfReader, new FileStream(FileLocation.Replace(".pdf","[temp][file].pdf"), FileMode.Create));
    iTextSharp.text.Image img = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(WatermarkLocation);
    img.SetAbsolutePosition(250,300); // set the position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downloading files from a SharePoint document library to file system</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/07/24/downloading-files-from-a-sharepoint-document-library-to-file-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/07/24/downloading-files-from-a-sharepoint-document-library-to-file-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Manipulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the code to download files of a certain type (in the example, I set it to find documents in the list with the .doc extension) from a document library to your hard drive.
    SPWeb mySite = SPContext.Current.Web;
    mySite.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
    SPList oList = mySite.Lists[&#60;ListName&#62;];
    SPQuery oQuery = new SPQuery();
    oQuery.Query = "&#60;Where&#62;&#60;Eq&#62;&#60;FieldRef Name='DocIcon'/&#62;&#60;Value Type='Computed'&#62;doc&#60;/Value&#62;&#60;/Eq&#62;&#60;/Where&#62;";
    SPListItemCollection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing MOSS 2007 with SQL Server 2008 Express backend on to a 64 bit Windows 2003 server</title>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/07/21/installing-moss-2007-with-sql-server-2008-express-backend-on-to-a-64-bit-windows-2003-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/07/21/installing-moss-2007-with-sql-server-2008-express-backend-on-to-a-64-bit-windows-2003-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wei</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office SharePoint Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a high overview of how to complete this along with the names of the files required to do this. Most of these files are available from the microsoft site. Just do a google search for the file name and you will be redirected to the download pages. Some files will require licensing (eg. Windows [...]]]></description>
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