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Calculated Column to Write out the Month

I have many many lists that I want to group by month based on their creation date (or other date column). In order to do I thought I'd have to add a calculated column and then add a horrific formula of nested IF's. Thankfully this formula does the trick: =TEXT([Article Date],"MMMM")

Web Services on your dev machine

If you've ever tried to create a web service using a SharePoint development machine (using Visual Studio), you'll recognize this error: "Visual Web Developer does not support creating Web sites on a SharePoint Web server." Arrgh.. so annoying. Luckily there's an easy workaround: First, create a new web application in your webroot folder (probably c:\Inetpub\wwwroot) by creating a folder with explorer, and then application-izing it using the IIS Administration snap-in. Then, go back to Visual Studio and re-try to create the web service (File->New Web Site) using the name from the folder you just created. Tadaaaa...