No PDC for me

Robert Bogue September 11, 2005 No Comments

For those of you who have been asking … I’m not going to the PDC. I had a decision to make — admittedly a tough one. The MVP Summit is at the end of the month. I don’t have enough slack in my schedule to do two events in one month. So, as much as I wanted to hear about SharePoint V3 as soon as possible … I had to decide to go to the Redmond campus at the end of the month. It gives me a lot more opportunities to talk with the program managers — in a slightly more intimate setting.

So, keep the blog entries about the PDC coming, I’ll be reading them intently.

XML Namespaces and Bad Exception Propigation

Robert Bogue September 11, 2005 No Comments

Two quick things …

1) If you’re trying to use XPath on XML you get back from SharePoint… don’t forget you’re going to need the XmlNamespaceManager object to use with SelectSingleNode or SelectNodes to get back what you’re looking for. I repeatedly forget that SharePoint uses XML Namespaces extensively… and that using SelectSingleNode and SelectNodes does require namespaces in the XPath. (Today was lesson #3.)

2) Bad error handling. You may find it interesting to note that the WebPartPages web services’ GetWebPartProperties method doesn’t seem to throw soap exceptions. I ran into my favorite “Cannot complete…” error again. However, it didn’t show up immediately because rather than throwing a soap exception this particular method returns the error as a comment node — rather than throwing an error. So you’ll have to look for comments one level down from the root. (Sidebar: It doesn’t look like this web service even works against SharePoint Portal Server areas. At least – I keep getting an error about XML namespaces — back as a comment.)

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