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When debugging WebParts not knowing which w3wp process to attatch to has always bugged me. Thankfully ASPalliance has this article to show you how to identify the w3wp process for an app pool.

The gist of it is.

Shipping with Windows 2003 is a vbscript named iisapp.vbs.

running "cscript iisapp.vbs" from the command prompt displays list of w3wp processes running, its process id, and the app pool it belogns to.

tags: SharePoint, IIS6, Windows 2003, WebParts, Debugging, Application Pool, Attatching

A colleague of mine ran I ran into a bug in MOSS today with the DVWP.

i.e. It treates numeric fields as text for sorting (when sorting on column headers is enabled), hence if you sorted in ascending order on the column, the values would be like 1, 10, 11, 2, 3 etc.

This happens even though the field is formatted as a number and even when the type is set to x:float. on the sort column.

tags: SharePoint, DVWP, Bug, Sorting, Numeric, MOSS 2007

You just have to check this out.

http://one.revver.com/watch/42920

Tim Fort's Domino Project. Its just amazing since he is using a lot of other materials to cause the domino effect.

tags: Dominos, Tim Fort

The last few days I've been playing around with Google docs. Its pretty neat.

Its google's take on writely and irows both rolled into one.

Its not bad, it also supports exporting the spreadhseet/document to popular document formats (e.g. xls, doc, pdf etc).

tags: Google, Goolge Docs

Heather Solomon has a good post on how you can enable provisioning of Master Pages via features.

Thanks for the info Heather. I am definitely going to use this in the next few days.

tags: SharePoint, Master Pages, Feature

MOSS B2 TR expired on me today. It took me totally by surprise. I backdated the machine by one day and it was fine. Brought it forward by one day, and it said the trial period had expired.

Was a bit confused since all web posting for this issue cliam it happens on Domain Controller, and my MOSS server wasnt a domain controller.

Anyways the fix is to run the patch for the DC.

StandaloneDCWorkaround.msi

Thanks for the link Jan

tags: SharePoint, Moss, Office Server, 2007, Beta 2, Technical Refresh, Expired, Fix

Its wierd, and I cant make head or tail of it.

I was writing a webpart today, and I was maintaining a generic stack collection which I wanted to place in the session.

What is wierd is that if i were to add object of type Stack <T> to the session, SharePoint says an unrecoverable error has occurred.

The moment I changed the stack from a generic to a plain old .NET 1.1 non-generic Stack the error was gone.

tags: SharePoint, WebParts, Generics, Session