Category Archives: SharePoint

Impersonate SharePoint User

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Stu

This is a post that I’d imagine most people who have been developing with SharePoint will be aware of but I thought it might be worthwhile blogging about. I’ve seen code where people have tried to impersonate a user to … Continue reading →

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Temporarily Disable SharePoint Events

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Stu

Just a quick post to demonstrate how you can disable events (item, list, web and workflow) for the currently running thread. There are many reasons why you may want to do this, one of which could be for a unit … Continue reading →

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External Participant for Task Items

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Stu

If you’re wondering why you get (External Participant) appended to tasks created with the CreateTask and CreateTaskWithContentType workflow activities and are investigating why it appears that the person who was assigned the task is being marked as an external participant, … Continue reading →

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Coding the Creation of Information Management Audit Policy

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Stu

This is a quick post to demonstrate how you would create or update the Information Rights audit policy for a specific content type in SharePoint. First things first, lets have a look at the method that implements this for us: … Continue reading →

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Package and Deploy a SharePoint Designer Workflow

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Stu

Note: A sample project containing a simple designer workflow and the code described in this post is available for download here. Workflows created in SharePoint Designer are good when you want to be able to deploy workflows to your customers … Continue reading →

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