Bil Simser is bootstrapping a community publishing site. Kick it!

Symptom:

When performing a search on a WSS page that has been customized, the standard WSS error page displays with the message "Unable to validate data"

Cause:

The search box is rendered via the <SharePoint:ViewSearchForm> tag. In the customized pages, this tag was inside the <form runat="server"> tag

A new Technical Article is online discussing the cases in which Dispose() should be called.  A must read for all SharePoint developers.

Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

One of the patches on June 13, 2006 is causing problems on some pages. A few pages to review to get up to speed and the work-around:

InfoWorld's article

KBase Article

MSDN Technical Article with the work-around

InfoWorld posted an article describing some of the things that cause visitors to leave. One of those things -- flashing ads that distract the reader.

On the page, I'm sure you can guess what I saw...