Pradeepa Achar

Some times there will be situation where we have to make the site to work in read only mode for the end user so that they can access the site , get the contents . That's it. They should not add any more data .This type of situation comes because of certain reasons. one among them i can say is, we are moving the database to another server and later we are making all the users to access new server for further usage. During this process if the user adds data it will be big problem. So let's make users to use the site in readonly mode. Solution:   In order to achieve this , follow the following steps: 1. Open the visual studio management studio and right click on  the database to which your site is attached to save the data. Now select the Properties 2.click on the "Options" 3.Scroll down till "State" and make the Database Read-only to True Now..it is done!!!.. Let the user access the s

I wanted to retrieve a SPListItem  value and got error while debugging as- "   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldMap.GetColumnNumber(String strFieldName, Boolean bThrow)    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection.GetColumnNumber(String groupName, Boolean bThrowException)    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection.GetRawValue(String fieldname, Int32 iIndex, Boolean bThrow)    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.GetValue(SPField fld, Int32 columnNumber, Boolean bRaw, Boolean bThrowException)    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.GetValue(String strName, Boolean bThrowException)    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.get_Item(String fieldName)    at XPoint.Base.Extensions.c_SPExtensions.GetFieldValue " I started banging my head like anything. because for another column of  same field type it was working fine and for one of the column of same field type it was giving this error. Those fields i have created through schema. So i created one more column of same type and tr