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When you want to change the EditFormUrl, NewFormUrl and DispFormUrl of a SharePoint ContentType, you can do this by including a section in your ContentType Xml Declaration or do it in code (recommended). It is also possible to reset those Urls so that the default SharePoint form is loaded when editing, creating or displaying a listitem of that content type.

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When developing for MS SharePoint, especially on a development VPC, you might want to configure SharePoint to send emails, and you might want to configure your VPC environment so that it can Receive (POP3) the emails. This is a guide how to configure your environment with the free edition from SmarterMail.
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Today, after 3 weeks of (well deserved ) holiday, I noticed that I couldn’t reach my custom developped SharePoint webservice anymore on a test-environment.

After searching some time, I discovered the MS UrlScan Security Tool had been installed which blocked all calls to the webservice and simply returned a 404 because the url contained a “.” character in the path to the webservice asmx.

You’ll find numerous posts online about difficulties with UrlScan and SharePoint installed together, just don’t mix them

After 2 InfoPath projects together with MOSS 2007, I noticed that I overlooked an important checkbox in the InfoPath publishing routine:

By checking it, you make the column editable in SharePoint…

Really, I spend the last 4 days searching why specific InfoPath 2007 web enabled forms would not work. When suddenly a colleague of mine decided to turn off PointFire translations on SharePoint, suddenly all forms work as they were designed to. Also the calender picker did it’s work.

The error I received was:
“There has been an error while loading the form. A required resource could not be downloaded. To try to resume the download, refresh the page.”

These issues should be fixed in the newest (V2) release of PointFire, but yet …

… a good lesson to keep in mind: When developing in SharePoint, try to switch off Pointfire once in a while. (And try to avoid InfoPath as much as possible in your solutions).