Operational Services

Some developers are unaware that you can store custom properties in SPWeb objects. It's usually referred as the property bag and can be useful for storing configuration variables.

SharePoint search offers a lot of possibilities. In this article we'll discuss some of the shortcomings that you can come across when programmatically querying the SharePoint 2007 search service.

A strange problem started occuring with the RichHtmlField. When using IE8 in a SharePoint site, after editing a RichHtmlField the second time, a JavaScript error is thrown in form.js and the user is redirected to the welcome page of the site.

The GetSiteData method allows querying list items across multiple lists and webs. It is extremely useful because it allows for recursion and searching across the entire Site Collection. It uses CAML syntax and returns a DataTable.

Caching can be set at various levels for SharePoint. Here we explore 4 different types of caching.