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?
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