Questions tagged [sharepoint]

For SharePoint-specific questions, please see the SharePoint Stack Exchange (https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com) site. Use this tag for programming questions which may involve SharePoint. Microsoft SharePoint is a platform and a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing.

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Microsoft SharePoint is a software platform and a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration.

SharePoint comprises a multipurpose set of Web technologies backed by a common technical infrastructure. By default, SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.


Products

This family of products include:

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2010
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2013
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2016
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2019
  • Microsoft SharePoint Online (Office 365)
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
  • Windows SharePoint Services
  • Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
  • Microsoft Search Server
  • Microsoft SharePoint Designer
  • Microsoft SharePoint Workspace

Documentation


Tag usage

The tag can be used for programming related questions which may involve implementation of SharePoint technologies. For SharePoint-specific questions, please visit the SharePoint Stack Exchange.


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Best way to resolve file path too long exception

I created a app that downloads all document libraries in a SP Site , but at one point it giving me this error (I tried looking at google but couldn;t find anything, now if anyone knows any trick to solve this problem please respond otherwise thanks…
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What is Microsoft SharePoint?

I have heard that Microsoft SharePoint was used by many companies. Could someone tell me briefly what is SharePoint and why is it popular?
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Bypass invalid SSL certificate errors when calling web services in .Net

We are setting up a new SharePoint for which we don't have a valid SSL certificate yet. I would like to call the Lists web service on it to retrieve some meta data about the setup. However, when I try to do this, I get the exception: The underlying…
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Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user

I have a Windows 2012 Server running SharePoint 2010 using an SQL Server Express locally installed. Unfortunately my logs are currently flooding with message "An exception occurred while enqueueing a message in the target queue. Error: 15404, State:…
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What happens when I edit web.config?

I need to edit the web.config file on a live Sharepoint environment, but I'm unsure what will happen if I do (I want to output custom errors). Will this cause the IIS6 worker process to recycle? Will active users lose their session state because of…
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Create or get specific SPTimeZone instance

What is the most convenient way to create a specific instance of Microsoft.SharePoint.SPTimeZone as the following one: SPTimeZone utc = SPRegionalSettings.GlobalTimeZones .OfType() …
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ASP.net page without a code behind

I have an ASP.Net page with a C# code behind. However, I've been asked to not use a code behind - so that it will be easier to deploy in SharePoint. Is there a way to include the C# code in the ASP.Net page, without using a separate code behind…
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SharePoint interview questions

Let's have a list of some good interview questions for SharePoint developers. Please provide one question per entry, and if possible, the answers. Also, please feel free to suggest corrections if the provided answers are wrong. I will go first: Q:…
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How good/bad is sharepoint programming?

I got a job offer today for a position as a SharePoint developer. One of my friends is telling me that sharepoint is a big mess and not something I would want to be doing. What are some of your experiences/thoughts in working with SharePoint?
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Displaying code snippets in Sharepoint wiki

Is there a way to get SharePoint to display code snippets in a pre-formatted way? Currently if you insert any code, it just looks exactly like the rest of the text. Anything would be better than nothing.
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How Can I Bypass the X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN HTTP Header?

I am developing a web page that needs to display, in an iframe, a report served by another company's SharePoint server. They are fine with this. The page we're trying to render in the iframe is giving us X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN which causes the…
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How do you upload a file to a document library in sharepoint?

How do you programmatically upload a file to a document library in sharepoint? I am currently making a Windows application using C# that will add documents to a document library list.
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The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Ntlm' The authentication header received from the server was 'NTLM'

I know there's a lot of questions on SO similar to this, but I couldn't find one for this particular issue. A couple of points, first: I have no control over our Sharepoint server. I cannot tweak any IIS settings. I believe our IIS server version…
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The tail of the log for the database "DBName" has not been backed up

I tried to restore a database using the following query: ALTER DATABASE [DatabaseName] SET Single_User WITH Rollback Immediate GO RESTORE DATABASE DatabaseName FROM DISK = 'C:\DBName-Full Database Backup' ALTER DATABASE [DatabaseName] SET Multi_User…
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What is Sharepoint development from a developers point of view?

I hear a lot of talk about Sharepoint these days, but I'm having problems grasping exactly what it is through all the enterprise and marketing jargon. Trying it out hands-on seems too much of a hassle as well (several heavy software packages that…
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