SharePoint Lessons Learned

SPView.ViewFields is a collection of internal field names, according to MSDN. (It is not a list of display names, as can be seen by examining the view fields of the 'UserInformationList' list).This is surprisingly inconvenient, as SPList.Fields is indexe… more »

If you are creating a new site in a site collection, and inadvertently create a publishing site while the publishing feature is not enabled at the site collection level, I've noticed some strange functionality. An Error message will be displayed that s… more »

Problems with SPFeatureCollection.Add#1: SPFeature.Add ignores access denied failure My major problem with SPFeatureCollection.Add is that it does not report failure due to access denied.In the case of attempting to add a site collection feature, w… more »

SharePoint site settings GUI will not let you create a column with a display name already in use (as an existing site column, even inherited from higher level site)SharePoint site settings GUI will adjust the field's InternalName and StaticName both… more »