Paul Devenney

Wrong content type when selecting "New Item" using content types: Continued

Aha! more progress on this one. I've narrowed it down now - this issue only occurs when you use Office 2007 documents that have already been stored in SharePoint 2007 as your template for a content type. This includes documents that were in SharePoint and now Read More

Code Signing for Click Once - The Free Way

When writing click once applications deployed over the web you are going to need to sign your manifest files with a certificate. In development you can quite happily test this by using the "create test certificate" option and use a certificate signed by yourse Read More

Selecting Content Types from the "New" menu gets the wrong content type

The scenario Create 2 breand new content types/ Provide each one with a word 2007 document as the template (each with some different text to test success). Attach both content types to a document library. From the "new" dropdown on the doc library select the l Read More

The B2B upgrader timer job failed

I found a great article on getting WSS 3.0 SP1 working after receiving the worrying "The B2B upgrader timer job failed" error message. I'm only linking it here in order to try and bump it up good so others can benefit. Read More

SQL Server 2005 Partition Problems

We have a replication scenario where have SQL Server 2005 replication publications on development, test and live servers. Recently we had an issue where test server publication, having not been touched for about 3 months (between releases) suddenly stopped syn Read More