Server Type “complete” is missing when installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows 7 or Windows Vista

Posted by Eric Bartels

I really like Windows 7! As I am a SharePoint developer I was happy that (thanks to Bamboo) one can install SharePoint on Vista and Windows 7. After I figured out why my first installation try went wrong I hit another strange issue. When installing MOSS you have to choose which role your server is [...]

Do not use DateTimeField when displaying the date of your field

Posted by Eric Bartels

I have a “DateTime-field” inside a list which contains both date and time. In order to allow the user to edit this information inside the publishing page I used the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DateTimeField. If you only want to display that field-value you can simply use the ControlMode-property and set it to Display. If you want to display [...]

Allowing PostgreSQL to use an index when the query uses the LIKE-operator

Posted by Eric Bartels

When enabling search in database its very important to have the appropriate indexes defined to make the queries as fast as possible. If your query looks like this (and the appropriate index is defined) the index can be used by the database (the query planner) even with the LIKE-operator. So fast wildcard-searches are possible … [...]