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VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available!
The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are available for MSDN subscribers, you can download them immediately from this location. The Release Candidate will be made available to the public on 10 February 2010. This release includes a “go-live” license for users who want to use VS...
SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam Videos
You can find most of the videos from the SharePoint Connections 2010 conference in Amsterdam by searching for the “SPC10” tag on Channel9. Related posts:SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available Related posts:SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available ...
Metadata not saving when Office Document is password protected
This is a known issue. The metadata is actually stored within the document and gets read into SharePoint when being saved. Unfortunately, since the document is password protected, SharePoint cannot read the metadata values and therefore you lose them. More precise, if you open the document...
SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available
Microsoft announced the general availability for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/sharepoint-2010-public-beta-is-now-available-for-download.aspx At the PDC in n Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta: http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-4-beta-is-now-available/ http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/ Related posts:Silverlight 3 Released Related posts:Silverlight 3 Released ...
Bulk editing metadata in a Sharepoint Picture Library
One of our SharePoint users asked me if it was possible to select a range of multiple images in a SharePoint Picture Library and edit their metadata in one go? In a Document library you can do this by using the “Edit in datasheet” option, in the datasheet you can bulk...
Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities. You can read more about Silverlight 3 in the following blog posts: What’s New in Silverlight 3? (silverlight.net) Silverlight 3 Released (Scott Guthrie) Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed? (Tim Heuer) Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth) Silverlight 3 Released...
Philippe Sentenac [MVP SharePoint]
C'est avec beaucoup de plaisir que j'ai appris mon renouvellement MVP SharePoint pour la troisième année. Je dois dire que je vois ça comme un bon présage pour l’année à venir surtout que ma petite fille est censée venir au monde e... ...
[MSTD10] SharePoint 2010 et Team Foundation Server
Un post rapide pour vous informer de la disponibilité de la vidéo de ma présentation sur SharePoint 2010 & Team Foundation Server. http://www.microsoft.com/france/vision/mstechdays10/Webcast.aspx?EID=20215d48-02e3-4d43-8c36-e53505c3b316 Dans la ... ...
SharePoint 2010 : Bonnes pratiques de gestion des logs et des exceptions
Je vous rassure, je ne vais pas vous refaire le couplet bien connu “Les exceptions c’est mal, il faut faire des TryCatch, etc…”, je pars du point de vue que vous le savez déjà et que vous essayez tant bien que mal de faire au mieux. Ce ne sera une...
Techdays 2010 : Slides sur SharePoint 2010 et TFS
Tout d’abord un grand merci d’être venu si nombreux à cette session. Cela fait plaisir de voir que l'industrialisation des développements SharePoint est un sujet qui interesse beaucoup de gens. En attendant les vidéos qui ne devraient pas tarder à êtr... ...
SharePoint 2010 : De nouvelles certifications en préparation
Selon le site des Partenaires Microsoft, de nouvelles certifications Sharepoint se préparent à débarquer pour Juin 2010 (cf https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40121316) 2 pour les Admin en version MCTS – Microsoft Certified Technology Specialis... ...
SharePoint 2010 : Workshop à Lille le 14 Janvier
Histoire de revenir en forme pour la début d’année, je voulais vous faire part d’une invitation pour participer à un workshop sur lequel je travaille depuis quelque temps avec Frédéric Wickert de Microsoft : “Cette année nous allons accueillir S... ...
CleverWorkarounds
As you may have noticed, this blog has been a bit of a dead zone lately. There are several very good reasons for this – one being that a lot of my creative energy has been going into co-writing a book – and I thought it was time to come...
SharePoint Webcasts: Reporting Services for the Really Really Good Looking
Last year, Peter Serzo and I presented at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in DC. We did an extremely serious talk called “SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services 2008 for the really really good looking” which rated rather well. As part of this, we recorded a bunch of screencasts that have...
Hi all I am finding it increasingly difficult to find the time to post at the moment. Too many projects, too many initiatives and too many evil plans coming to fruition. It’s like every seed I planted last year suddenly sprouted this year and I can barely keep up. Whilst this...
SharePoint Saturday Perth Wrap and SP2010 BOOTCAMPS!
Well, the event that I never thought would ever happen in Perth happened, and not only did it happen, it had more interest than expected and some people unfortunately missed out. Jeremy, as a result, had to take many upset phone calls. It seems that for Perth, once a few...
SharePoint Saturday Perth is upon us
Well I have to confess that I never thought it would happen in sleepy Perth, but thanks to the monumental efforts of Jeremy Thake, we are about to have our own little slice of SharePoint Saturday on Feb 6th! Jeremy has managed to secure a great selection of national speakers...
The problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems)
Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called “Complex adaptive systems”. Unfortunately with a name like that, it is automatically doomed to be only...
Fear and Loathing
Dynamic Project Listing for XAMPP
I’m a big fan of two very simple products, XAMPP and WampServer. Both are pre-packaged install kits composed of Apache, MySQL, and PHP (among other tools). They’re the perfect answer to getting a LAMP/WAMP/MAMP stack running quicky for some local PHP development. Over the years I’ve installed each...
Content Query Web Part and the Yes/No Field
The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is a pretty powerful beast. It allows you to do multiple site queries and aggregate the results. This is great for rolling up content and doing some summary type reporting. Here’s a trick to remember about Yes/No fields and using the CQWP. ...
SharePoint – The Most Important Feature
Watching twitter and doing a search for SharePoint and you see a lot (almost one every few minutes) of tweets about the top 10 new features in SharePoint. What answer do you get when you ask the question, “What’s the most important feature in SharePoint?”. Chances are the answer will...
What is SharePoint Out of the Box?
It’s always fun in the blog-o-sphere and SharePoint bloggers always keep the pot boiling. Bjorn Furuknap recently posted a blog entry titled Why Out-of-the-Box Makes No Sense in SharePoint, quickly followed up by a rebuttal by Marc Anderson on his blog. Okay, now that we have all the players and...
SharePoint Q&A With the MVP Gang
Interested in getting some first hand knowledge about SharePoint and all of it’s quirks, oddities, and secrets? We’re hosting not one, but *two* SharePoint Q&A sessions with the MVP crowd. Here’s the official blurb: Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for...
Using jQuery and SPServices to Display List Items
I had an interesting challenge recently that I turned to Marc Anderson’s wonderful SPServices project for. If you haven’t already seen or used SPServices, please do. It’s a jQuery library that does primarily two things. First, it wraps up all of the SharePoint web services in a nice little AJAX...
SharePoint Magazine
Sharepoint 2010 and Authentication
In the following article I will introduce and show you how to enable the Windows (Kernel Mode Authentication) in Shareoint 2010 based on the new security settings built into Windows 2008....
Forms Authentication vs. Windows Authentication in SharePoint
Now that you're aware of the Authentication types in MOSS 2007 and MOSS 2010 I thought it would be necessary to go into the differences and pros and cons between the two....
Setting up Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2007
In this article I'll go through SharePoint 2007' s FBA setup which is built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, so ASP.NET developers should feel right at home developing against, and customizing this method....
Setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
Welcome to the first of a 4 part series where I'll be guiding you through the do's and don'ts of setting up SharePoint FBA on different versions of the SharePoint platforms, being MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010....
Partner Spotlight: Mint Management Technologies
Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd was established in 1971 and has rendered market intelligence gathering and deployment solutions to South African corporate and multi-national companies for over 38 years....
SPoint.me – The SharePoint Social Network
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to SPoint.me . SPoint is aiming to become the premier Social Network for people in the SharePoint Industry. Its a little bit of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and Wordpress, all rolled into one....
Mauro Cardarelli
SPWeb: Difference between AllUsers and Users Property
Quick Quiz: Recently, I wrote a very simple web part that returns a list of users who have access to the current SharePoint site. The code snippets below show two approaches I tried. Do you know the difference in the results? Method 1: SPWeb currentSite = SPContext.Current.Web; SPUserCollection userlist = currentSite.AllUsers; foreach (SPUser user...
Policy for Web Applications’ Firedrill
‘Help! All of a sudden, all users can view all (including private) content in SharePoint.” … Never the good start of a conversation (especially on a Friday afternoon!). Here’s the deal – Users are reporting open access to once private information in SharePoint. Assessment of the SharePoint site security page...
SharePoint View Stuck in ‘Loading…’ State
I was presented with a WSS 3.0 site containing a document library with a collapsed grouping on a metadata column. A problem was reported where every time a user went to expand the grouping the interface appeared to get stuck in a ‘Loading…’ state (with no document results ever returning). After...
SharePoint Site Migration Tidbit
Recently I had to move some WSS 3.0 sites from a development server to production (post upgrade from WSS 2.0). I used the stsadm import/export pair to create the necessary files to facilitate the move. An interesting thing happened… I exported the site (and underlying sites) using: Stsadm –o export –url <url>...
Publishing Button Disabled in SharePoint 2010
I came across an issue a few days ago where we had a publishing site in SharePoint 2010 that would not allow pages to be published [kinda makes it hard to be productive! :) ]. The Publish button was disabled and the Submit button threw a "The form cannot be...
Erika Ehrli
I get to write my first post on the new MSDN blog platform about a new open position in my group. My manager posted this position at the Microsoft Career site and wanted to share details in my blog in case you are interested. Content Publishing Manager 2(720752 -External) Job Category: Software...
MSDN: Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training
I spent the last couple months working with a couple different SharePoint teams putting together this new learning experiences, so I wanted to devote a special blog entry for this two projects. Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Last October we released a Getting Started training series on MSDN SharePoint that includes a...
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Launch: A Summary of Technical Content that Matters to Developers
Oh my! The day is finally here! We have been working for months on producing and releasing technical content that matters to developers. So many steps and multiple people at Microsoft and the developer community have contributed heavily to the Office and SharePoint 2010 launch. Today is the happy day...
Office 2010 How-Do I Videos for Developers
I uploaded a cool Word 2010 video to our Facebook group and people seemed to like it. Roganov Ivan made this request: “Only one video? I want more! 2010!” Done deal! We have about 20 more Office 2010 and about 30 SharePoint 2010 in the works now. Some more went live recently...
Open XML SDK 2.0 RTM is live! Find Articles, Videos, Code Samples, and Resources on MSDN
I’ve been incredibly passionate about Open XML since it’s early beginnings. I remember back in the day I was very excited about the possibility of generating .NET server-side Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. I also had the opportunity to manage the Open XML Format SDK 1.0 documentation release, design a...
SharePoint Conference 2009 Developer Videos and Slide Decks on MSDN
Some developers asked if we could publish some SPC videos and slide decks after the conference on MSDN. While we can’t publish all the conference content, we were able to cherry pick most popular sessions and publish a selection of most popular Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 develop SPC videos...
Jan Tielens' Bloggings
Where did ULSTraceLog go to in the SharePoint 2010 Logging Database?
The Logging Database is one of the many new concepts that will make the life of many SharePoint administrators quite a bit more enjoyable. In SharePoint 2007 the Unified Logging System (ULS) logged all of its data to text files, typically found on your SharePoint server in 12\LOGS. We still...
A couple of weeks ago, the Belgian Techdays were held in Antwerp. Together with Scott Hillier I presented the SharePoint pre-conference sessions (watch them online over here, search for pre-conference or SharePoint). Even though Belgium is not a very big country, the Microsoft team managed to get some high profile...
SharePoint 2010 BDC Model Deployment Issue: “The default web application could not be determined.”
Yesterday I tried to deploy a Business Data Connectivity Model project created in Visual Studio 2010 to my SharePoint 2010 test server (all RTM versions), but during the deployment of the solution, SharePoint threw my following error: Add Solution: Adding solution 'BCSDemo2.wsp'... Deploying solution 'BCSDemo2.wsp'...Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution':...
Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data with REST/OData on Windows Phone 7
Consuming SharePoint 2010 data in Windows Phone 7 applications using the CTP version of the developer tools is quite a challenge. The issue is that the SharePoint 2010 data is not anonymously available; users need to authenticate to be able to access the data. When I first tried to access...
My first Windows Phone 7 App: Getting SharePoint Content
Earlier this week at the Mix10 conference, Microsoft announced the developer story of the Windows Phone 7 Series. As expected, it’s all about Silverlight! For all the details I highly recommend to watch the recorded keynotes (day 1, day 2). Tonight I could resist trying to build my very first Windows...
When SharePoint Matters: OneResponse
Two weeks ago I was in Iceland, talking about SharePoint 2010 at TM Software (some photos here :-) ). During the course, some students showed me a pretty cool public SharePoint 2007 site that they have been working on: OneResponse (http://oneresponse.info). OneResponse is the site the United Nations uses to collaborate...
SharePoint Buzz
Download Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
The Visual Studio team that brought you the SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 2010 (read MSDN article) is happy to announce we have created a set of power tools that make developing SharePoint 2010 sandboxed solutions even easier. Below is the list of features included in the current release...
Developers! Developers! Developers! Microsoft has just released the SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) which contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies. The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes documentation and code samples for Microsoft SharePoint...
SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine RTM Download Links
Microsoft has updated their Information Worker SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine to include the SharePoint 2010 RTM. Pretty amazing considering SharePoint is officially launching tomorrow! 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) Virtual machine "a" contains the following pre-configured software: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running...
SharePoint 2010 Developer Hands on Labs and Certification Preparation Sessions
As SharePoint 2010 RTM has arrived the following hands-on labs are now available: Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface Ribbon and Dialog Customizations Hands-on Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions in Visual Studio 2010 Hands-on Lab: Developing...
SharePoint 2010 RTM Download Now!
The 2010 wave has started. SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications have gone RTM. Which means these are the products Microsoft is making available to customers. General Public You can download the following right now for FREE: SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit) (64-bit) PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel (32 bit) (64 bit) Remember, SharePoint Designer...
Latest SharePoint 2010 Downloads - April 2010 Edition
Every now and then, Microsoft releases documents, guides or software that everyone should know. This month, Microsoft released the following downloads: SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity technical case studies - technical case studies that describe specific deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Compare the scenarios in these documents to your planned workload...
SharePoint Development Blog by Jeremy Thake in Perth, Australia
Two weeks to the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney … see you there!
Only TWO weeks to go! Don't miss out on Australia's biggest SharePoint event of the year! Something for everyone - one of the few IT events that specifically reaches out to multiple audiences 20 sessions of end user/power user/business content including some great case studies including Telstra, Volvo and a number of...
My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs (May-2010)
This month's listings sees some new blogs that have caught my attention namely Waldek's who's smashed this month with some amazing articles of late! Yaroslav continues to pump out some great code snippets for working with SharePoint via the API. And the BCS team are pushing out some great content. Two...
Photos from Perth SharePoint User Group: Office Launch #ANZOfficeLaunch
We had a great Perth SharePoint User Group meeting this week for the launch day. Sezai Komur did an awesome session on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with a sample SharePoint 2007 site live in his presentation! Got some good laughs too as he wrote a web part that picked the...
I've spoken at a few online and community events recently and have been really disappointed by the amount of people who had heard of SPDisposeCheck. This tool should be the first thing installed on a Development machine after installing Visual Studio 2008/10. I have also spoke to a few people who...
SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Australia & New Zealand Launch Party - Perth
Myself and Sezai Komur have organised the Launch Party locally in perth which will run in parallel to user groups in 7 other locations! Should be a good night please register below to attend! http://www.aunz2010launch.net Local Launch Party With the release of the new SharePoint, Office & Project Server platforms, there are a...
Feedback from HP TRIM Product team on my webcast
So my screen cast on the HP TRIM 7 integration with SharePoint 2007 seems to have been popular which makes it all worth while re-recording it after the sound was so terrible from the live presentation! To top this off I got lots of feedback from the HP TRIM product team...
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Mart Muller's Weblog
Two interesting sessions at the Dutch Information Worker User Group event @ Wortell this time. Subscribe at http://www.diwug.nl/ for free. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn...
Today and tomorrow I will be present at the SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam. This 2 day event is kind of a wrap up of the content that is presented earlier in Las Vegas. Some interesting sessions attended already. To follow the content and things that happening at the conference you can follow me...
SharePoint Dev Tools Beta 1 Released
Via Wouter van Vugt: “May I present the SharePoint Dev Tools. Version beta 1 is ready for your approval. And I believe it will exceed your expectation! Some of the exciting features that you find within this advanced toolset are summed up below. You can go over to the project site and download the beta. One...
After the news about the .Net Facebook SDK, LinkedIn has released an API to integrate LinkedIn in your own applications. LinkedIn uses OAuth to authenticate. “The LinkedIn API utilizes OAuth as its authentication method. OAuth is a standard model for negotiating developer authorization and granting access on behalf of specific users for performing API requests. One...
Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Available
The Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 has been released on Codeplex. In my opinion, the most interesting addition is the BusyIndicator control, compatible with RIA services. Check out the demo here. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn...
Silverlight 4 beta available for download
via [Silverlight blog]: “Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications for the Web and...
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog
It's here! To keep this brief - we're pleased to announce the availability of SharePoint Designer 2010, along with the release of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. Download it now for free using the following links: 32 bit, 64 bit. Enjoy!...
Working with the SharePoint Theming Engine
Hi, Kolby here again. As we get closer to releasing SharePoint 2010, I’m getting more and more excited about our product and some of the new functionality we’ve added in 2010. I’m particularly looking forward to theming capabilities that the SharePoint team has added this release. Last week I learned...
Managing SharePoint Designer 2010 Video
Want to learn more about how to control SPD 2010 usage across your SharePoint sites? Check out this video tutorial for managing SharePoint Designer to get a comprehensive rundown. For more helpful tips and tricks, please also visit the Get the Point blog or their YouTube channel. Enjoy!...
SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: keyboard shortcuts
Travis here again from the SharePoint Designer development team. In my last post, I introduced you to a few of the new features of the workflow editor in SharePoint Designer 2010. This time, I’d like to show some of the new keyboard features in the editor that can make...
SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: introduction
Hi everybody, I’m Travis from the SharePoint Designer development team. Hopefully by now some of you have been able to download and evaluate the beta for SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 2010. (If you haven’t, consider this a sneak preview for the upcoming release.) SharePoint Designer 2010 has a brand...
Overview of Human Workflow in SharePoint 2010
Hi folks, Sean Gabriel here, Program Manager on the SPD workflow team. I recently presented a session on human workflow at SPC, and wanted to share out the core of the talk with a broader audience. We’ll also be following up with deep dives into the nuts and bolts of...
SharePoint Solutions Blog
Updated: Building a SharePoint 2010 Service Application #sp2010
A few weeks back, I wrote a series of three articles on the topic of building SharePoint 2010 Service Applications. Today, I have updated the source code for these articles to include Powershell cmdlets for provisioning, retrieving and updating the demo service application from the command line.The three articles...
Take 2: Lists as Native SQL Server Tables in SharePoint 2010? #spc09 #SP2010
Last week, while at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, I wrote a blog post on being disappointed that SharePoint 2010 does not seem to include a critical feature promised by Bill Gates and Tom Rizzo in their keynote speech at last year's (2008) SharePoint Conference.The feature promised was a...
Lists as Native SQL Tables in SharePoint 2010? #spc09
Even after today's keynote speech by Steve Ballmer and Tom Rizzo, I am wondering if this got included in SharePoint 2010?I expected it to be one of the big announcements, but heard nothing about it. I also have seen nothing to indicate that it got added as I have...
Job Opening: SharePoint .NET Developer Course Author/Instructor #spc09
If you are a SharePoint expert and you like working in a friendly, people-oriented environment, SharePoint Solutions is the place for you. A desire to work for a company that has a strong customer focus and high standards for quality of work is also important.SharePoint .NET Developer...
Job Opening: SharePoint Consultant - Solution Architect #spc09
If you are a SharePoint expert and you like working in a friendly, people-oriented environment, SharePoint Solutions is the place for you. A desire to work for a company that has a strong customer focus and high standards for quality of work is also important.SharePoint Consultant - Solution ArchitectWe are...
SharePoint Conference: Theater Sessions at Our Booth + Ipod Nanos
We will have our team and a large booth at the SharePoint Conference next week in Las Vegas. We've designed the booth this year with a mini-theater area (50" plasma, sound system, chairs, etc.) so that our experts can conduct short sessions on topics that we feel we have...
Mark Harrison 2010
From Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering ...In addition to the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, were excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month.For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010,...
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For every 10 searches made, Bing.com will donate 5p to Sport Relief 2010, enabling you, and your friends and family, to raise money just by searching with Bing until the end of March. Mark Harrison...
The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that comes packed with over 300 pieces of content, including videos, documents and PowerPoint slides. This gives you a great start at building a learning community behind your firewall. The Hub centralizes Microsoft end user training content while providing a...
HTC HD2 - a Windows Mobile better than the iPhone ??
The HTC HD2 - ths first Windows Mobile phone with a capacitive touch screen, and the glass display measures 4.3". The HD2 runs Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC's Sense UI which is their new version of TouchFLO 3D. It has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 488 megs RAM, a 5 MP...
Outlook - the hub for social networking
Two announcements re the Outlook Social Connector - the set of new features that bring together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.The LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector is available today at http://www.LinkedIn.com/outlook. Integrations with Facebook and Myspace are on...
SharePoint
Power of CEWP series: Quick Search in List View
Next article in line of The Power of Content Editor WebPart series is available. In this one we’ll get to know how to insert a quick search for any list view that has filter-as-you-type functionality. Yes, demo is still made for SharePoint 2007. This is in one way keeping the...
If you’re having trouble with editing Office documents from SharePoint in Windows 7 or Vista, here’s one reason and fix: Reasons (besides Windows7 and Vista): WebClient service not started SharePoint domain has dots (.) in the name Your IE is trying to resolve LAN/Proxy settings Solution Important! Part of solution is also modifying your...
Power of CEWP series: Toggle Quick Launch
After a while I’ve prepared the third (or second if you count first two as one) article in Power of Content Editor WebPart series. In this article we do something that was already done using JavaScript – we hide SharePoint’s Quick Launch bar. But we do this to learn how...
Prevent over-indenting in SharePoint Designer
After I installed SP2 for Office 2007, an annoying issue occurred. All the code started over indenting – meaning that a sub-node was indented 4 tabs into instead of 4 spaces or 1 tab. There is a setting in SPD to fix that. In Tools menu select Page editor...
Cannot get the list schema column property from the SharePoint list
If you’re trying to export data from a SharePoint list to Excel you might get this error message. Possible causes / solutions: 1. Change all Date and Time columns to single line of text and then back to Date and Time. Don’t worry, the data in these columns will be preserved....
Insert a WebPart in SharePoint 2010 list form
If you need to add custom JavaScript to SharePoint 2010 list form just like in 2007 (for example the SharePoint Cascaded Lookup), you’d need to insert the Content Editor WebPart to the same form. There are couple of ways to do it. Here’s one: 1. In a SharePoint List View...
SharePoint Automation
Deploying SharePoint 2010 Solution Packages Using PowerShell
With SharePoint 2010 we can now deploy our Solution Packages using PowerShell. What’s cool about this is that it’s a bit easier than it was with 2007 to check if a package is already deployed and conditionally retract, delete, and then re-add and re-deploy. By now most people already know...
SharePoint 2010 Service Application Charts
I, along with Paul Stork, recently gave a SharePoint 2010 deployment webcast where we discussed, among other things, Service Applications and some of the considerations that must be taken into account when planning your deployment strategy. We also presented a first look at SharePoint Composer and SharePoint Maestro, the two...
Announcing My SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cmdlets & STSADM Commands Now Available for Download
I’ve been wanting to release the SharePoint 2010 version of my STSADM extensions for quite some time but honestly just haven’t had the time to migrate as many as I would have liked. With over 145 STSADM extensions for SharePoint 2007 it was a challenge determining which ones I should...
Discovering Who Has Access to SharePoint 2010 Securable Objects
I've talked on several occasions about how we can easily use the SharePoint 2010 object model (OM) to discover who has access to a securable object (SPWeb, SPList, or SPListItem) and the fact that we can use the same mechanisms within PowerShell to create useful security/audit reports. On some of...
Starting the SharePoint 2010 Foundation Search Service using PowerShell
It's been a while since my last real SharePoint 2010 scripting post but we're getting close to RTM so I figured I need to buckle down and play some catch up and get some long overdue posts published. So, continuing my series of posts on scripting the various services and...
Paul Andrew
We completed and published the SharePoint VSeWSS Import tool. This tool is an add-in to Visual Studio 2010 and it adds a new SharePoint project template for importing a VSeWSS project. VSeWSS or the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services are the Microsoft tools for creating SharePoint 2007...
Love my new Microsoft arc mouse
I just got a new Microsoft arc mouse and I really like it. I'm down in New Orleans this week for TechEd USA so using it on random surfaces at the event and in my hotel and it's been working great. I also like how the wireless works when presenting,...
Benign OWSTimer unhandled exception popup – System.Security.Cryptographic.CryptographicException
Have you seen this popup exception message from the Visual Studio Just-In-Time (JIT) Debugger? Here’s the resulting event log error: An unhandled exception occurred and the process was terminated. Application ID: DefaultDomain Process ID: 6148 Exception: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException Message: Keyset does...
VSeWSS cannot be used on a SharePoint farm installation
I saw a call stack today from an attempt to use VSeWSS 1.3 on a SharePoint 2007 farm installation. VSeWSS is the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It requires WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 and also Visual Studio 2008. The SharePoint installation needs to be standalone...
Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development
We just published an online course for developers to learn about SharePoint 2010. This is updated for RTM. If you have some experience developing with .NET then you can learn SharePoint. The course includes: 10 modules introducing developers to SharePoint 2010 55...
SharePoint 2010 Developer Virtual Labs Online
Three new MSDN Virtual Labs are live running SharePoint Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010. You can work on these labs and learn SharePoint 2010 development without having to install SharePoint 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 on your machine. All you need is a web browser that can support our...
Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
ASP.NET MVC: MVC Time Planner is available at CodePlex
I get almost every week some e-mails where my dear readers ask for source code of my ASP.NET MVC and FullCalendar example. I have some great news, guys! I ported my sample application to Visual Studio 2010 and made it available at CodePlex. Feel free to visit the page of...
Using ExcelPacke to create Excel sheets on server
In one of my community projects I needed to output some listings as Excel file. As installing Excel to server is non-sense that I was easily able to avoid I found simple solution for Excel 2007 files – open-source project called ExcelPackage. In this posting I will show you hot...
JavaScript: Creating timestamps with time zone offsets
I was converting the example code of my Windows Azure session to Visual Studio 2010 solution called MVC Time Planner when I discovered some date and time offset issues in my JavaScript code. In this posting I will show you some useful tricks you can use to convert JavaScript dates...
Code Contracts: validating arrays and collections
Validating collections before using them is very common task when we use built-in generic types for our collections. In this posting I will show you how to validate collections using code contracts. It is cool how much awful looking code you can avoid using code contracts. Failing code ...
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – book review
Writing code that is easy read and test is not something that is easy to achieve. Unfortunately...
ASP.NET: Using pickup directory for outgoing e-mails
Sending e-mails out from web applications is very common task. When we are working on or test our systems with real e-mail addresses we don’t want recipients to receive e-mails (specially if we are using some subset of real data9. In this posting I will show you how to make...