I recently had to create some functionality for a customer to take a subsite, and duplicate it for backup purposes. I would normally walk them through the process using stsadm or use Save Site as Template but they wanted a simple method of doing it. I created them a on click solution. My code is below. We were going to move forward with the SPWeb SaveAsTemplate option but the site was too large. Even after increasing the template size SharePoint still errored. See KB Article 960969 for more det... [More]

Google recently published a new tool to help web designers and developers assess the real estate on their pages. It's a basic tool which overlays a standard graph over your pages showing you the percentage of visitors who have their browsers open to the specific size. Check it out at http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/. I played around with it a bit and found it a little too elementary. Any good web designer knows that you have to stay above the fold and shouldn't exceed certain widths. If you w... [More]

As a SharePoint developer, you may be creating a web part and for the sake of testing you throw it up on your site. Then you decide to rename your class or get a new public key token for your class or something like that. After doing so, your page might stop loading with the following error. You may not be a developer, you simply obtained a web part from another party and now it's not working and you get the following error. An error occurred during the processing of . Could not load file... [More]