How to get a value from a form
This may be pretty obvious to more seasoned C# web developers, but if you're fresh with web part development (like me) this may come in handy.
Loading custom web parts inside your Onet.xml
How would you go about adding a custom built web part to a page in a site definition? MSDN shows an example using the <AllUsersWebPart> tag in the <module> section of a site definitions onet.xml file. Inside there is a CDATA area where it uses some more (presumably) XML to define and configure the web part. You can check out the example here: MSDN's AllWebUsersWebPart page. I had some issues adapting this to my own custom built web parts, which made me come up with the solution in this article instead.
Finding the Base Permissions of a user
Lately I've been working on a re-direct web part for a client. The web part should redirect the users immediately (preferably without them noticing it), and therefore a 5 second countdown is not an ideal way to go (also one of the reasons we're not just using a redirect page layout). One of the issues I came across was, if the web part redirects immediately, how do you ever go in and change the settings easily?
Powershell: Retrieve Content Types and Column Fields
So you just found the wicked awesome list of content types and life is good, but you kinda wish you could get a hold of all those content types and column fields that you made yourself. No worries, Powershell is your trusted friend who's always ready to help.
Below are two very basic Powershell scripts. They both connect to a specified site collection, and one exports Content Types while the other exports Column Fields.
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