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	<description>Developing, Configuring and Designing in SharePoint</description>
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		<title>Hide buttons from lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simple one... add a content editor web part and add the following code: &#60;style&#62; .ms-menubuttoninactivehover{  display: none; } .ms-separator{  display: none; } .ms-splitbuttondropdown{  display: none; } .ms-viewselector{  display: none; } .ms-listheaderlabel{  display: none; } &#60;/style&#62; You'll notice that some of those buttons disappear.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2010/07/06/hide-buttons-from-lists/</link>
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		<title>Setting up a DNS server on Windows Server 2003</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2010/02/03/setting-up-a-dns-server-on-windows-server-2003/</link>
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		<title>Visual Studio 2008 developed Custom Outlook Add-in not being called</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/11/visual-studio-2008-developed-custom-outlook-add-in-not-being-called/</link>
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		<title>Creating a custom add-in for Microsoft Oulook 2003 on Send event (or start or &#8230;)</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/11/creating-a-custom-add-in-for-microsoft-oulook-2003-on-send-event-or-start-or/</link>
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		<title>Exporting and importing SharePoint sites</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/12/02/exporting-and-importing-sharepoint-sites/</link>
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		<title>Updating SharePoint user profiles using C# code</title>
		<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"] [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/10/14/updating-sharepoint-user-profiles-using-c-code/</link>
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		<title>Uploading a file into a SharePoint document library with C# code</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/09/17/uploading-a-file-into-a-sharepoint-document-library-with-c-code/</link>
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		<title>Using C# to update windows registry</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/09/14/using-c-to-update-windows-registry/</link>
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		<title>Adding watermark to existing PDF files using iTextSharp</title>
		<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 = [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/08/25/adding-watermark-to-existing-pdf-files-using-itextsharp/</link>
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		<title>Downloading files from a SharePoint document library to file system</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigscholar.com/2009/07/24/downloading-files-from-a-sharepoint-document-library-to-file-system/</link>
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