Author Archives: Bobby Beckner

SharePoint Get Emails for Users Associated to SPListItem

By Bobby Beckner | Published: September 29, 2009
Challenge On a recent project, I needed a way to build a list of emails for a given SPListItem. Considering most of you just want the code, here it is: Solution public List GetEmailsForUsersAssociated(SPListItem item) { //list for emails [...]
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When to Use AJAX

By Bobby Beckner | Published: September 28, 2009
Consider Your Goals When considering implementing anon a website or web application, you should first consider your goals. While there are several good reasons to implement AJAX, there are also several bad reasons. This all depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. AJAX the Wrong Way There are a lot of pitfalls if you choose to [...]
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Doxygen Generate C# Documentation

By Bobby Beckner | Published: September 28, 2009
Challenge I recently had the task to create anlibrary for software I designed for a client. I was looking for a simple way to generate C# documentation using thecomments in Visual Studio. I work tirelessly to comment each of my functions, and wanted to see my comments put to good use. Research I spent several days [...]
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WiTricity, a Stock to Watch

By Bobby Beckner | Published: September 2, 2009
What is it? is an emerging technology that will enable hardware devices to receive electricity wirelessly. The technology uses coupling between electromagnetic resonant objects, and has proven to charge a 60 watt light bulb using two 5-turn copper coils of 24 in, that were 7 ft away, at roughly 45% efficiency. Who’s Behind It? An MIT research [...]
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SharePoint List and LINQ using jQuery and IhttpHandler

By Bobby Beckner | Published: August 31, 2009
Challenge I was looking for a simple way to use jQuery and a few parameters to retrieve data from a SharePoint List informat. Here’s my approach… Javascript In the below method, I pass in the list name, url to handler, and some query parameters: //request menu items $.ajax({ dataType: 'json', url: '_layouts/data/list.ashx', [...]
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One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields. SharePoint Error.

By Bobby Beckner | Published: August 24, 2009
Problem Our test team is working hard and we finally had ironed out all the bugs on our development and test server. Unfortunately, upon deploying to our production server we ran into this error: One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields. In my research I [...]
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