Monthly Archives: August 2010

An ex-colleague used to say that SharePoint = Share the pains, and he’s mostly right 😀 – particularly around rapid development, debugging and testing.  I have found one particular approach that can greatly lessened those pains, and that is to … Continue reading →

In 2010 the SPWebEventReceiver class has a WebProvisioned method which you could override. There is no such thing in 2007 (doh!!). One way to get around this is to use the method described here: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/introduction-to-sharepoint-feature-stapling-part-2, which essentially involves creating another … Continue reading →

We have a requirement to change the Display Name (i.e. the Title property) of the Title field of a custom list during site provisioning. The code to do this is simple, but some for reason it would just not work. … Continue reading →