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Help! My SearchBox Web Part won't Submit

I have caused this to happen a number of times and the answer isn't obvious at first, so I thought I would post on it and explain what causes it and how to fix it. The behavior usually occurs for me when I am deploying a SearchBoxEx web part via a feature using an elements.xml file. What you will...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-28-2008
How to: Uninstall a previous version of the MOSS SDK when Add/Remove Programs has been disabled by Group Policy

Well, if you read, the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog , you know that the SharePoint SDK and MOSS SDK have been updated to version 1.3 which includes updates for SP1. Instead of someone that just posts the fact that this came out, I am posting a useful tip that might affect...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-27-2008
BDC: Could not create profile page for Entity

I have seen quite a few searches for this warning in our stats, so I thought I would address the following message received when importing an application definition into the Business Data Catalog. Could not create profile page for Entity MyEntity. The error is: Default action exists for application 'MyInstance'...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-27-2008
Speaking at Tulsa SharePoint Developer's User Group

I'll be giving my talk on Searching Business Data with MOSS Enterprise Search at the Tulsa SharePoint Developer's User Group on March 10th. This is the same presentation I gave at TechFest, but I have updated it some and will likely also cover indexing other sources as well as documents. It's...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-26-2008
How to: Delete Crawled Properties

This unfortunately is not as simple as it should be. Out of the box, there is not an option to delete a single crawled property. I sort of understand the reason behind this, but when developing its very easy to get your crawled properties filled with a bunch of garbage as you are trying things out. It...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-26-2008
How to: Use the MOSS Enterprise Search KeywordQuery class

I don't think there are enough complete examples on using the KeywordQuery class out there, so I am posting this today to help out. The example in the SDK is close, but not quite enough. The KeywordQuery class is used to execute a keyword syntax query against MOSS Enterprise Search. There is also...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-19-2008
Changing the Maxmium File Size in your Enterprise Search Index

In MOSS Enterprise Search, the maxium size of a file that it will index is 16 MB. This is probably not an issue for most people, but some organizations do have large PDFs, PowerPoints, etc. This is becoming a little more common knowledge, but I thought I would post it to make more people aware of it...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-08-2008
Things users complain about with Enteprise Search

MOSS Enterprise Search has proven to be a great tool for allowing users to search Line of Business systems and documents at the same time. Out of the box, the Search Center provides some great looking search resuts. However I keep hearing the same two things about it. SearchStats Web Part does not display...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-01-2008
Adding a Default Action to a Business Data Catalog Entity

I tend to write the most about things that I am currently working with. Today I have been working with the Business Data Catalog (BDC) again and I thought I might point out how to configure a default action because it isn't very well documented. A default action is the URL, that will be used when...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 01-29-2008
Importing data from one list to another

I needed to recreate a list on another website including the data. The list had over 150 items in it so no way was I going to recreate it manually. The first thing I did was recreate the columns for the destination list then export the original list to Excel. The option is under actions in the list view...

Posted to Kyle Kelin on .Net (Weblog) by KyleKelin on 01-29-2008

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