This looks like a great web part to create charts from list data, completely server side. I am going to check this out soon!

Random ramblings from a frustrated man - ListCharts - new web part

I was playing around with MySite and imported a data view web part using a .dwp file. After refreshing the page, I got a nasty error. The error stated that the web part referenced a list that does not exist. From that moment on, I could not navigate to the http://…./MySite/default.aspx because it always gave me the same error.

How can you solve this? Just open the page like this: http://…./MySite/default.aspx?contents=1. You then get this (click the thumbnail):

From that page you can delete the offending web part.

If you are looking for a high availability solution for Sharepoint, follow the link below. Although it is possible to create a secondary copy of the SQL database using log shipping and such, this solution from Neverfail seems to be more interesting.

Neverfail for SharePoint High Availability Solution and Disaster Recovery

I have been looking for a way to upload a file to a Sharepoint document library with metadata included. After searching a bit on the net, I found the FPSEPublish sample that uses Frontpage Server Extensions RPC methods to do it.

The zip file you can find in this post contains a binary called FPSEPublish.exe that you can use to test. Source code is included (C#) so you can implement this in your own application.

On our Sharepoint server, I created a test document library with some fields and then used the following command (one line).

fpsepublish putdoc http://portal/restricted/help/test.xls c:\test.xls Custom;SW|Test;Custom2;SW|Hi;Owner;SW|Geert;vti_title;SW|Title;Status;SW|Final;Desc;SW|Describe me"

How you set metadata is a bit strange.

• Syntax: fieldname;XW|value;fieldname;XW|value where X can be S for a string, I for an integer, B for a boolean.
• For the Title property, I had to use vti_title instead of Title.

This will prove to be very useful when we start to build custom applications that need to upload documents to document libraries and set metadata at the same time.