I will be presenting at the March 2010, Wheeling, WV Association of IT Professionals (AITP) meeting.

Learn how to leverage Microsoft SharePoint to gain better control over your content, streamline your business process, and share information with others in your organization.  In this introduction will also go over the many new features and enhancements that will be included in SharePoint 2010 that is being released later this year and compare the difference between the versions of SharePoint that are available.

I have a subsite that is for all the InfoPath Forms.   All the InfoPath forms are displayed in a web browser using forms services.  Each form has a workflow that is kicked off when a form is submitted.   This all still worked. 

But when you click on the 'Title, description and navigation' Link in List Settings for the forms libraries for the 2 sites where it was migrated to (testing and production) you get the following error…

Value does not fall within the expected range.   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListTemplateCollection.FindServerTemplate(Guid featureId, Int32 templateType)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList.get_ServerTemplate()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList.get_OnQuickLaunch()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.ListGeneralSettingsPage.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

It turned out that the 'Office SharePoint Server Enterpirese Site features' feature wasn't activated in the new site. 

This wasn't the logical place for me to look at first since…

1. I assumed the deployment tool would of activated it.
2. The forms were rendering in a web page and could be submitted.  Only this one list setting link didn't work.

I hope if your having this issue, this helps you out.

Make sure you only call the 'TransferToErrorPage' method if you are handling errors in the a user interface (web part, page, etc…).  Don't call that method in a workflow, event handler, etc…

//This will write to SharePoint's log files.

Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString("Your Error Message");

Anyway, on my quest to find out how to turn it off, I came across a Microsoft Hotfix that is suppose to resolve this issue.  Not the way to go.  The hotfix must of been meant for a version of InfoPath forms services / MOSS prior to SP1. 

Then I found this blog by Michael Yeager: Using STSADM to set Form Services Properties (http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_yeager/archive/2008/12/01/using-stsadm-to-set-form-services-properties.aspx) that explained some STSADM options for Form Services.

To turn it off run, you simply run… stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn AllowBranding -pv false

Thanks Again MY

The requirements were to get this working for Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox 2 and above, although I think this will work for most if not all the browsers.  We tested on a couple others but I don't remember for sure if Chrome and/or Safari were on that list.

The code below assumes that the web path to the file that needs to be downloaded is passed in via the 'file' URL parameter.

void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    if (Request.QueryString["file"] != null)
      DownloadFile(Request.QueryString["file"].ToString());
}

private void DownloadFile(string fileName)
{
    string path = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath( fileName );
    string name = System.IO.Path.GetFileName( path );

Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 different ways you could use this code. 

1. Using SharePoint Designer, put this code in the code behind for a page in the site.
2. Create a page in visual studio, use a web deployment project to compile it to a DLL, Deploy the web page somewhere under the _layouts folder, and deploy the DLL to the Bin or the GAC.  See /jscott/archive/2008/04/15/integrating-asp-net-2-0-web-pages-into-sharepoint-2007.aspx for more details
3. Create a HttpModule that will execute the above code.

To keep it simple for the non-technical content administrators, we went with option 1.  This option is my least favorite technically but I think the easist for the end user.  We create a SaveFile.aspx page in SharePoint designer and stuck it in the top most level of the root site (NOT in the pages library). 

So the file is at www._company_.com/SaveFile.aspx.

We then would have the content administrators link to the document like they normally would throught the publishing GUI.  The URL would be something like, www._company_.com/site1/Documents/Medai.wmv

Then we would have them insert /SaveFile.aspx?file= right after www._company_.com resulting in www._company_.com/SaveFile.aspx?file=/site1/Documents/Medai.wmv

Hope this helps

70-541: TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development 
This exam covers only WSS items.  No BDC, no Forms Services, no excel services, etc…  The book Inside Microsoftr Windowsr SharePointr Services 3.0 was very helpful for this exam.  Through the consulting company I work for, I also has access to Microsoft eLearning – Collection 5385: Developing Solutions with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005.  This was helpful but did not come close to going over everything on the test.  I would not recommend spending your own money on it.  If you can get it through work great.  There is also the Microsoft eLearning – Collection 5392: Developing and Extending Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005 that looks like it covers the other topics on the test.  For some reason, I couldn't get these throught work so I can't comment on it.  If I could do it again, I would just purchase Microsoftr Windowsr SharePointr Services 3.0 and skip the eLearning stuff.  Also, feel free to skip the chapters that talk about AJAX.  That is not on the test.

70-542: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Application Development
This exam covers only the technologies NOT found in WSS.  BDC, forms services, excel services, etc…  The book Inside Microsoftr Office SharePointr Server 2007 was very helpful for this exam.  The Microsoft Study guide site also recommends Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoftr Office SharePointr Server 2007 for this test.  Don't bother.  I'm not saying it's a bad book, but everything you need to know for this exam you can get from the first book.

Unfortunately I don't think I'm allowed to disclose too much information about the questions on the actual tests so I hope this helps.

Good Luck to anyone planning on taking the tests.

You can get more details http://www.aitp-wheeling.org/

Server Error in '/' Application.

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The data source control failed to execute the insert command.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPartException: The data source control failed to execute the insert command.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Server Error in '/' Application.

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Server Out Of Memory

There is no memory on the server to run your program. Please contact your administrator with this problem.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Server Out Of Memory

There is no memory on the server to run your program. Please contact your administrator with this problem.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Here is a sample of an HTTP module that can be set up with forms based authentication (FBA) so that it logs you in as a visitor account by default. This enables you to control the visitor account just like a normal user account (since it is authenticated), and is transparent to the Sharepoint server.

This code has not been extensively tested, so don't deploy straight to your production environment, test it out thoroughly first. Be sure to set up an account called "Visitor" (It's hard coded that in the sample).
//=================================
using System;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
 
 
namespace HTTPAnonAuth
{
    class AnonModule : IHttpModule
    {
 
        public void Init(HttpApplication app)
        {
           
            app.AuthenticateRequest +=
                (new EventHandler(this.Application_AuthenticateRequest));
            app.PreSendRequestHeaders +=
                (new EventHandler(this.Application_PreSendRequestHeaders));
           
        }
 
        private void Application_AuthenticateRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            HttpApplication app = (HttpApplication)sender;
            if (app.User == null)
            {
                string[] roles = new string[1];
                roles[0] = "GuestUser";
                GenericIdentity id = new GenericIdentity("Visitor","Forms");
                GenericPrincipal p = new GenericPrincipal(id, roles);
 
                app.Context.User = p;
            }
 
 
        }
 
        private void Application_PreSendRequestHeaders(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            HttpApplication app = (HttpApplication)sender;
            if (app.Response.RedirectLocation != null)
            {
                if (app.Response.RedirectLocation.Contains("AccessDenied.aspx?Source")
                        && app.User.Identity.Name == "Visitor")
                {
                    app.Response.Redirect("/_layouts/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=" + app.Request.RawUrl);
                }
            }
 
 
        }
 
        public void Dispose()
        {
        }
    }
}
//=================================  

If you do end up using the HttpModule route OR find a better workaround OR find a fix, please let me know about it.