I got a request from the customer to change the background color of a WSS / Portal page depending on the login rights. This example delivers an example which will do this. But the same example can be used to override any other style defined in SPS.css and OWS.css.

As we know every database is build from two files on disk. The first file contains all data and the second file contains the log of the database. The log file grows and grows and grows...

I like to write all my code in C# and therefore i sometimes have to rewrite some examples written in VB.NET. This website is a quick reference guide to highlight some key syntactical differences between VB.NET and C#. Thanks to Tom Shelton, Fergus Cooney and others.

http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/WWW/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html

 

I was looking for a solution to remove the link "my site" from the top banner. After googling i found the following solution by Mark Beecham at Ted's SharePoint blog...

I'm writing some custom web parts for a Portal site of one of our customers. At some point i was testing the code with a user from a different site group. In this case it was the "reader" site group. It seems that some functionality i was using was not available anymore due to CAS (code Access Security) in the SharePoint assemblies...

Thanks to the blog of Dave Donaldson i found a link to a website about connection strings for any type of database. The link to the website is:

www.connectionstrings.com

Yesterday was one of those days.... I was working on a project and doing a lot of debugging in SharePoint. At some point the system crashed and I had to reboot. After rebooting the computer it seems that my master database in SQL Server was crashed.

This web part is a very simple but handy part to show coming birthdays of people. You only use standard controls from SharePoint and you do not have to program anything. It also shows how to use some functions which are not directly available in calculated fields but can be used with a simple trick. so far as I know this trick be used for any other function which is not available for calculated fields. The following describes the steps to create this web part...

One of the most common requests is how to add an icon for PDF documents and have PDF documents indexed in SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

This article decribes how to enable the Session State in SharePoint...