Default/Integrated role in SharePoint 2007: A role consists of two parts: 1. Role definition 2. Role assignment. The role definition , or permission level, is the list of rights associated with the role. A right is a uniquely controllable action within a SharePoint Web site. For example, a user with the Read role can browse pages in the Web site and view items in lists. Unlike in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 user permissions are never managed directly using rights. All user and group permissions are managed through roles. A role definition is a collection of rights bound to a specific object. Role definitions are scoped to the Web site (for example, Full Control, Read, Contribute, Design, or Limited Access) and mean the same thing everywhere within the Web site, but their meanings can differ between sites within the same site collection. Role definitions can also be inherited from the parent Web site, just as permissions. The role assignment is...

Encrypting Web.Config using RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider in SharePoint Overview: One of the most common uses of the protected configuration is to encrypt connection strings in web.confg (that's one of the reasons for creating a separate tag for connection strings instead of adding it in appSettings tag). Adding this connection string as plain text is not the best practice for sharepoint web application security and this might cause serious hacking problems. Sharepoint also support for encrypting and decrypting configuration sections in web.config file. In this article, we will explore how to encrypt and decrypt sections of the web.config. We can encrypt the configuration sections by using two built-in providers: DPAPI (Windows Data Protection API) Provider or the RSA provider. The RSA provider (default) uses an RSA key which holds public and private keys, where as the DPAPI provider uses built-in machine-specific key. Let us explore the steps required to encrypt the sections u...

Get list data using SharePoint Object Model: This article explains how you can use the SharePoint Object Model(MOSS 2007) classes like SPSite and SPWeb in C# or Visual Basic code to fetch data from a custom SharePoint list. This article explains how you can use the SharePoint Object Model(MOSS 2007) classes like SPSite and SPWeb in C# or Visual Basic code to fetch data from a custom SharePoint list. Problem: You want to get data on the basis of url (including siteurl+listname) from the custom SharePoint list. Resolution: In this scenario, we can use SharePoint Object Model classes to access data from custom SharePoint list. public static bool CheckListExists(string listName, SPWeb web,ref SPList list) { try { //---Check list exist or not if (web.Lists[listName]!=null) { list = web.Lists[listName]; return true; } return false; } catch (ArgumentE...