All posts by Chris Buchanan

The end of Windows SharePoint Services

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) which was the free version of SharePoint that shipped with Windows Server in the past, is just that, a thing of the past. They’ve replaced WSS with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Server, which is the foundation for...

/ October 19, 2009

Updating the Toolbar type for SharePoint 2007 ListViewWebPart

I’ve recently run into quite a problem updating the toolbar property on the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart. It seems as if there should just be a property exposes of the ListViewWebPart called toolbar but there isn’t. I find a number of different articles...

/ February 20, 2009

Passing Rich Text Values into an InfoPath Form

One of the more frustrating experiences I encountered when creating InfoPath Task Forms for my SharePoint workflow was trying to take the richtext value from one form, and pass it into a richtext field on a second form. The problem...

/ March 4, 2008

The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the outgoing e-mail setting for the server are configured correctly

One of the common errors many people seem to have when creating a SharePoint Workflow is with the SendEmailActivity. When your task task executes you recieve an error message: The error message is frustrating because you know you’ve setup your...

/ March 4, 2008