I downloaded the new Sharepoint 2007 SDK today, published last week though it's dated from April 2007. There appears to be no change history for this version of the SDK. I was hoping for … more

How did I miss this until now? It's great that WSSv3 and MOSS give us granular permissions, and it's great that I can access those permissions via an SPListItem's RoleAssignments collection - but is … more

When we call the GetListItems or GetListItemChanges methods in Sharepoint's Lists Web Service, we pass an XmlNode parameter specifying which fields we want to return, in this format: < … more

This one was suggested by a coworker leery of accidental recursion. Too many people aren't used to thinking in terms of recursion and will miss a recursive call inside a method and accidently start … more

I remember discovering C#'s null coalescing operator a while ago. I can't say I use it a lot, but it's useful to clean up my code when I do need it. However, there is another similar scenario that it … more

As a follow-up to my previous post about changing a Windows Service's user account - there was one think I forgot. In order for a user to run a service, that user must be granted the "Run as Service" … more

I've been busting my brains for over two hours trying to accomplish a relatively simple task - changing the username and password of a currently running Windows Service. Should be trivial enough, but … more

I'm writing an installer class for an MSI Setup Project, and find myself needing to manipulate my web.config containing a custom ConfigurationSection. This should be trivial seeing as my … more