Archive for August, 2007
August 28th, 2007 | 
Author: Since announcing support for silverlight hosting we’ve had a great deal of interest in it by developers and designers alike. I think we’ll see some really great things out of the developer community on silverlight in the very near future.
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We recently needed a way to extract files from a sharepoint site’s document libraries. With sharepoint all the files are stored in a SQL database so it would seem connecting to the database and pulling all the files out manually wouldn’t be such a hard thing to do. After a fair amount of time googling for such a solution I finally found it over at Mark Jen’s blog. Mark’s solution it turns out didn’t work for WSS 3.0 but in the comments a fella by the name of eric writes:
If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio. For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique application pool so your site is isolated from the other sites on the server. If your application pool recycles for whatever reason, the viewstate key will change and when you go to post back to your application is may fail with the gloriously informative error of:
