Sharepoint wcf url for sitecollection?

hi all, i want to create site collection through programmatically. i used below code but iam getting error as "object reference not set to instance of an object"   SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:7833/");   SPWebApplication oweb = site.WebApplication;   SPSiteCollection sitecol = oweb.Sites; sitecol.Add( "sites/sitename", "sitename", "welcome to site collection", 1033, "STS#0", "Domian\\user", "User Display name", "user mailID"); oweb.Update();   iam getting an error at sitecol.add line the error is "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". please suggest me in order to remove the error. please suggest me if is there any other way to create site collection through programmatically. thanks in advance..

I'm attempting to backup and restore a site collection in a 2003 implementation as part of a process to migrate ~1500 subsites to a MOSS 2007 implementation. My first step was to backup the site collection these subsites were residing in http://CompPortal/sites/MySiteCollection/ When I run the below command in STSADM I get the error "The specified URL is not a top-level Web site. The backup and restore operations work only for top-level Web sites. Enter the URL for a site to try the operation again. stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://CompPortal/sites/MySiteCollection/ -filename "C:\backup\BL" -overwrite I checked in Central Admin to confirm that this is a site collection and I assume a top-level site and site collection are synonymous. Does anybody have a suggestion on what I could be missing? Thanks

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I am working on sharepoint groups, users, roles and permissions. my task is to display all groups,users,roles and permissions from a sharepoint sitecollection in sqldatabase table.the table for groups contains following columns ID,Name,Description,OwnerID,Ownerisuser. the table for users contains following columns ID,Name,Sid,LoginName,Email,Isstieadmin,isdomaingroup. the table for roles and permissions is ID,Name,Description,Type,BasePermission. can someone please help with the code. i have started in the following way using a windows application

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            using (SPSite osite = new SPSite("http://servername//"))
            {
                using (SPWeb oweb = osite.OpenWeb())
                {
                    try
                

When you create a site in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services by using the default Team Site template, the home page includes two default graphics. A Windows SharePoint Services graphic appears in the body of the page, and a picture of a house in a circle appears near the site title. You can change these graphics to customize your site. Changing the smaller graphic requires a Windows SharePoint Services compatible Web page editor

When you create a built-in or custom list in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Windows SharePoint Services creates a Web Part, a basic building block of a SharePoint site, to display that list. These Web Parts are called List View Web Parts. Windows SharePoint Services stores List View Web Parts in the site collection Web Part gallery. (The site collection Web Part gallery is the most central gallery of Web Parts for a work group. By default, the gallery name is the name of the site, such as "Our Team Site Web Part Gallery." )

What is a SharePoint site for?
A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides a central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. A SharePoint site is a tool for collaboration, just like a telephone is a tool for communication, or a meeting is a tool for decision making. A SharePoint site helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. For example, a SharePoint site can help you:

Coordinate projects, calendars, and schedules.
Discuss ideas and review documents or proposals.
Share information and keep in touch with other people.

Becoming familiar with Web Part customization techniques gives you a range of page-customization choices. For example, you can customize your site's home page so that it displays the specific information that your team needs. You can rearrange the list items on the home page, add lists, and even change the images on the home page. As you become more familiar with Web Part Page customization techniques, you can build interactive Web Part Pages that makes the data in lists more dynamic and useful, and you can add new Web Parts that provide access to external data and Web services.

Document libraries are collections of files that you can share with team members on a Web based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. For example, you can create a library of common documents for a project, and team members can use their Web browsers to find the files, read them, and make comments. Users with Microsoft Office 2003 can check out and edit the files as if they resided on a local or network drive.

By default, your team Web site comes with a built-in document library named Shared Documents, which is listed on the Quick Launch bar as well as on the Documents and Lists page.

I described how a new open source tool called sporm significantly simplifies unit testing SharePoint. Making SharePoint unit testable is my absolute favorite feature of sporm because SharePoint is notoriously hard to unit test. But sporm provides other benefits as well and its ability to pull us out of the depths of verbose loosely typed XML hell and into LINQ excellence is next on my list of favorite features. So in this post I'll describe the pre-sporm technique of querying with CAML, how to query data using sporm, and finally how sporm supports SharePoint's unique architecture of allowing multiple content types per list and what that means to you.

As I described in SharePoint: The Wild West of Software Development there is a serious problem when you develop for SharePoint: ensuring quality through unit testing is really, really hard. And that's where a new open source tool just released today called sporm (SharePoint Object Relational Mapper) comes in. While sporm provides many benefits besides simplified unit testing I wanted to focus on this topic first, because sporm's approach, which models the entity framework in the way it supports POCO's, is a unique feature not available with other SharePoint tools like LINQ to SharePoint.

A page in SharePoint is comprised of web parts the exist within zones. Web parts are available for just about everything. For example in the page below there are four web part highlighted by different colors. The purple web part displays a short list of the new announcements stored in the annoucements library. The pink web part displays events from a calendar within the site. The green web part displays an image from a location the user specifies. The gray web part displays a list of links from the links list on the site.

Team sites are small web sites that are created to store everything about a particular thing. For example a site can be created for a department in an organization like human resources. I site can be created for a particular project. A site can even be created for a meeting. Everything about the thing (department, project, meeting) like documents, lists, calendars, etc. is stored in that site.

A library is a feature in SharePoint that stores files (documents). Think of a library as a folder on your file system. For example, a library can be created to store resumes in the human resources team site. A library is usually created for a specific type of file. Libraries can contain metadata to describe the particular file in more detail and to make it easier to find.

A list is a feature in SharePoint that stores a lists of information. For example, a list can be created to store web links in the human resources team site. A list is usually created for a specific type of information. Lists can contain metadata to describe the particular information in more detail and to make it easier to find.

Security in SharePoint is comprised of users, groups and roles.



Users, Groups and Roles

Users
A user account comes from the authentication system. For example, if Active Directory is used to authenticate then the user accounts will come from it.

Groups
There are two types of groups SharePoint uses: domain groups and SharePoint groups.

The SharePoint logical architecure consists of nested and isolated levels. These levels provide benefits for security, navigation, search, branding and ect. depending on the level

SharePoint Farm
The base level for any SharePoint implementation is the SharePoint farm. Physically a farm can consist of one server or many servers. An organization may implement one or more farms. This usually depends on security and performance needs.

SharePoint content types provide users with a way to manage and organize content in a more meaningful way. It's a reusable of settings you want to apply to a particular type of document in a library or item in a list.