Ahmed Abu Dagga's Recent Blogs

Tip: Be careful when making quires using LINQ

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:48:27 PM G2T

If you’re using LINQ just be careful when you are using functions or properties while comparing the data

For example if you have a date field and you want to get today items, if you use the following code

An error occurred during processing of {page filename}...

Using Custom ASP.NET Controls in a SharePoint Web Part

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:21:46 AM G7T

You also can add a custom controls “ascx” files which is allowing you to put your controls, html layout, css, javascripts and events handlers, so you can cr...

Using ASP.NET Controls in SharePoint Web Part

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:12:31 AM G7T

I explained before how to create a simple SharePoint web part, but if you want to use ASP.NET controls or any of server side controls you can add it in the Controls proper...

Create Simple Web Part for SharePoint 2007

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:42:33 AM G7T

To create Web Part for MOSS 2007 you can create new Class Library Project with C# or VB and you have to add “System.Web”, “Microsoft.SharePoint.dll” to the references of the project.

After that you can create class and inherit a WebPart class f...

Customize MySite style in MOSS 2007

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:28:54 AM G7T

There are two views to the mysite, the first one for the public view for the anonymous or the other users and the other one for the private view for the same user.

To change the public view mysite you can change it by SharePoint Designer and open ...

MOSS 2007 Backup Strategy

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:28:25 AM G5T

To Backup the portal web site which contains everything except users profile and my site and search index database

Stsadmn –o backup –url http://servername –filename c:\folder\file.bak –overwrite

The filename path it can be ...

Send a Meeting Request with System.Net.Mail

Ahmed Abu Dagga — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:50:15 AM G5T

The calendar appointment email is just normal email attached with ics file contains appointment details.
This code will show you how to create simple ics file and how to attach it with the email.