SPList list = SPContext.Current.List;

SPListItem item = list[0];

item.Web.Url + "/" + item.ParentList.Forms[PAGETYPE.PAGE_DISPLAYFORM].Url + "?ID=" + item.ID

PAGETYPE is an enumeration of the SharePoint Forms:

PAGE_DEFAULTVIEW	Default view. Value=0.
PAGE_DIALOGVIEW	File dialog box view. Value=2.
PAGE_DISPLAYFORM	Display form for list items. Value=4.
PAGE_DISPLAYFORMDIALOG	Display form for a file dialog box. Value=5.
PAGE_EDITFORM	Edit form for list items. Value=6.
PAGE_EDITFORMDIALOG	Edit form for a file dialog box. Value=7.
PAGE_INVALID	Not used. Value= -1.
PAGE_MAXITEMS	Not used. Value=11.
PAGE_NEWFORM	New form for list items. Value=8
PAGE_NEWFORMDIALOG	New form for a file dialog box. Value=9.
PAGE_NORMALVIEW	Normal view. Value=1.
PAGE_SOLUTIONFORM	Solution form. Value=10.
PAGE_VIEW	View, including both default view and normal view. Value=3.

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Add Loopback adapter

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Then click Add Hardware:
   
2. Select Yes, I have already connected the hardware:
   
3. From the list of devices select Add a new hardware device:
   
4. Select Install the hardware that I manually select from list (Advanced):
   
5. From the list of hardware types select Network Adapter:
   
6. From the list of Manufactures select Microsoft and from the list of Network Adapters select Microsoft Loopback Adapter:
   
7. Click Finish once the adapter is installed.
8. The Loopback Adapter will now appear in you list of Network Connections:
   

Configure Loopback Adapter

1. In the Network Connections right mouse click on the newly created Loopback Adapter and select Properties;
2. From the Properties select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties:
   
3. In the Properties add the IP address as follows:
    
4. Click OK to commit the changes.

Configure VPC Network Adapter

1. On Virtual PC (VPC) Console click Settings;
   
2. On the settings dialog box select Networking and then select Microsoft Loopback Adapter as the 1st Adapter. Click OK;
   
3. On the VPC click the Network icon in the task bar or navigate to the Network Connections through the control panel. The network icon may display a warning message “Limited or no connectivity”. Don’t worry about this at the moment;
   
4. On the Network Connections window, right mouse click on the Local Area Connection and click Properties;
   
5. On the TCP/IP settings for the Network adapter enter the following details. Click OK;
6. You will notice that the network icon on the desktop task bar no-longer displays the warning message;
7. On the VPC, launch the Command Prompt and type IPConfig you should see that the VPC now has the IP address, subnet and gateway that you just entered;
   
8. From the VPC Command prompt ping 192.168.5.10 to confirm connectivity to the host;
    
9. Ensure that you don’t have any network connectivity on your host computer, then from the Command Prompt ping the VPC 192.168.5.11 to confirm connectivity to the VPC;

Configure Host File

If your SharePoint (or website) uses Host Headers then you’ll need to edit your Host file:

1.   Open your Host file C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\host;
   
2. In the host file put the IP address of your VPC 192.168.5.11 and set the host in my case that is scratch;
    
3. You should now be able to browse your SharePoint (Web Site) hosted on a VPC even if you do not have connection to a network;
    

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms454835.aspx

All you need to do is locate your Feature Element Manifest XML file and add a Property Element called Group and assign it a value. This is normally the XML file that is in your WebPart Folder.

Nice and easy hey… enjoy

string FeaturesPath = SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath(@”TEMPLATE\FEATURES\” + FeatureName)

The SPUtility Class is full of static methods for assisting you in your SharePoint Development.

“Several of the Windows SharePoint Services objects, primarily the SPSite class and SPWeb class objects, are created as managed objects. However, these objects use unmanaged code and memory to perform the majority of their work. The managed part of the object is much smaller than the unmanaged part. Because the smaller managed part does not put memory pressure on the garbage collector, the garbage collector does not release the object from memory in a timely manner. The object’s use of a large amount of unmanaged memory can cause some of the unusual behaviors described earlier. Calling applications that work with IDisposable objects in Windows SharePoint Services must dispose of the objects when the applications finish using them. You should not rely on the garbage collector to release them from memory automatically.”

Roger Lamb has an excellent blog article - SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example

Add SPDisposeCheck to Visual Studio

Visual Studio IDE allows you to add External Tools such as SPDisposeCheck. The follow steps explain how:

1. In Visual Studio select Tools | External Tools

2. Add the following settings:

Title:  SPDisposeCheck
Command: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\SharePoint Dispose Check\SPDisposeCheck.exe
Arguements: $(TargetName)$(TargetExt)
Initial Directory: $(TargetDir)
Use Output Window: Checked

SP Dispose Check External Tools

Reference

Introduction to Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

This is a quick reference for all the SharePoint Server Template IDs.

You can get the List Templates using SPWeb.ListTemplates

References:

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You cannot set the value of a BDC (Business Data Catalog) field in the same way that you set standard fields in SharePoint e.g:

SPListItem item = myList.Items.Add();
item["Title"] = "Product Information";

Instead you must use the EncodeEntityInstanceId method of the EntityInstanceIdEncoder class of the  Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Infrastructure class library. First you can detect if your field is a BDC field by:

if(item.Fields["MyField"].TypeAsString == "BusinessData")

You then need to:

//Get a reference to the field
SPField myField = spItem.Fields["EmployeeID];

//Get the entity Name for the field
XmlDocument xmlData = new XmlDocument();
xmlData.LoadXml(myField.SchemaXml);
String entityName = xmlData.FirstChild.Attributes["RelatedFieldWssStaticName"].Value;

//Set the Entity Instance value
spItem[entityName] = EntityInstanceIdEncoder.EncodeEntityInstanceId(new object[] { "123456" });

//Set the field display value
spItem["EmployeeID"] = "123456;

parameters.Add(new ConsumerParameter(
                    "Personnel Number",
                    ConsumerParameterCapabilities.SupportsAllValue
                    |
                    ConsumerParameterCapabilities.SupportsEmptyValue
                    )

parameters.Add(new ConsumerParameter(
                    "Personnel Number",
                    ConsumerParameterCapabilities.SupportsAllValue
                    |
                    ConsumerParameterCapabilities.SupportsEmptyValue
                    |
                    ConsumerParameterCapabilities.SupportsMultipleValues
                    |
                    ConsumerParameterCapabilities.SupportsSingleValue
                    )
                );

The Content Query Web Part that ships with MOSS and is enabled with the Publishing Feature has an option to include the child content types of that content type in filtering the data. I wanted to replicate this functionality in my own WebPart that utilized the SPSiteDataQuery to query the site. The SPSiteDataQuery accepts a CAML query to filter the results.

It is easy enough to query for all documents in a site that are of content type x:

<Where>
  <Eq>
    <FieldRef Name=’ContentType’/>
    <Value Type=’Text’>HR Document</Value>
  </Eq>
</Where>

But what happens if you want to query all children of content type x. In this example if you had CV, Application Form e.t.c. which all inherited from HR Document how do you build your query. You can add each additional Content Type into the WHERE clause of the CAML query, but this is an convoluted approach as any time you add a new child content type you’ll have to modify your CAML query.

The answer lies with how the ContentTypeID is constructed in SharePoint. The ContentTypeID is a concatenation of parent child ContentTypeIDs, this is to say that a ContentTypeID is composed of its parent ContentTypeID post fixed with a  it’s own identifier.

Knowing this you can construct a CAML query that uses the <BeginsWith> select statement.

To return all Documents you can use the following query:

<Where>
   <BeginsWith>
     <FieldRef Name=’ContentTypeId’/>
     <Value Type=’Text’>0×0101</Value>
   </BeginsWith>
</Where>

To return all HR Documents you can use the following query:

<Where>
   <BeginsWith>
     <FieldRef Name=’ContentTypeId’/>
     <Value Type=’Text’>0x0101002C3431777FFD0742A58D02ABC9C5FA62</Value>
   </BeginsWith>
</Where>

You can find the ContentTypeID by going to Site Actions | Site Settings | Site Content Types, and select the parent content type you are interested in. In the URL you will see the ContentTypeID in the page URL. For example:

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