SharePoint Lessons Learned

The Workflow History list content type, which can be found in the hidden Workflow History list, is unusual in that it has no parent content type. Normally, in a loop such as foreach(SPContentType listType in list.ContentTypes) listType.Parent is a va… more »

Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))Background I wanted to quickly make a copy of a publishing site collection that I had been working on (for a colleague), and did the following. First, as stated above, the site… more »

Let me first start by saying the script we're providing is adapted from script posted by Ricky Spears (http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/09/make-selected-links-in-links-list-open.html) OOB Sharepoint Link Lists do not provide you the option… more »

Counterintuitively, Site Columns -- probably FieldRefs inside of Content Types -- are stored in the [ContentTypes] table. Futhermore, and also counterintuitively, the site column (field) ID is stored in the [ListId] column, and the [IsFieldId] field is z… more »

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 »