Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Mkcol Sample Code

Now we are going to recapture some of the WebDAV protocol through examples. Through the Mkcol sample code, we are going to see how WebDAV provides capabilities for

• Creating collections

• Allowing multi-processing

• Benefitting from XML

• Returning multiple statuses in a response

NOTE

Please spend time reading this sample carefully, because it will save you time in understanding the other sample programs, which are very similar to this.

In this example, we use VBScript to

• Create a Web folder called SPSBOOK as a subfolder of the Documents folder of SPS.

• Use XML to send additional requests for setting the COMMENT property of the newly created SPSBOOK folder to “This is my SPSBOOK folder created by the mkcol method”.

• Get the response back ...