By Manuel Costa, on February 23rd, 2012%
ASP.NET provides Call Stack and Tracing as wonderful features which helps developers on investigating what is going on page rendering behind the scene. SharePoint being a product which provides bunch of features OOTB which we can use to setup a portal very easily, it hides most of these information.
Back in MOSS 2007, we had to scratch . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to Enable Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
By Manuel Costa, on February 17th, 2012%
Activity Feed Timer Job is the timer job responsible for providing the missing social networking features and we need to enable the same right after installing SharePoint 2010. Perform following in order to enable the same:
Click Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products and select SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
Click Monitoring from the left-hand side . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to Unlock Social Networking in SharePoint 2010
By Tommy Boswell, on February 13th, 2012%
In order to use ClientContext I need to add reference to two dll’s to my project i.e. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client .Runtime.dll. In this Post we will talk about
1) how to Get ListItemCollection from SharePoint document list using CAML
2) Upload a document to SharePoint Document list . Get ListItemCollection from SharePoint Document list using CAML: CodeProject. I . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to upload a document in SharePoint 2010 using Client Context Object Model ?
By Tommy Boswell, on February 7th, 2012%
Over the past several years more and more organizations are choosing to deploy public facing Internet sites using SharePoint 2010. Building on existing skills and experiences, designers and .NET developers can create amazing looking web sites, some of which can be seen here.
One question that comes up frequently is “what about mobile devices?” Organizations want to . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Mobile Access for SharePoint 2010 Internet Sites
By Manuel Costa, on February 4th, 2012%
Managed Properties are great! FAST pulls and indexes Managed Properties for multitudes of things, including boosting and search scopes. They are core to your FAST User Experience and an essential part to configuration
When a FAST crawl runs, it will pick up site column data and create a crawled property for that site column (given that there . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How To Map a Crawled Property to Managed Properties By PowerShell (FAST for SharePoint 2010)
By Tommy Boswell, on January 19th, 2012%
Below are the detailed steps to create a custom modal dialog page and show it when a ribbon button is clicked in a document library.
1. User clicks on Ribbion button “About” in the document library.
2. About button the displays the custom dialog page and passes the current library name.
3. The dialog page then parses the url . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Using Visual Studio 2010 to Create Custom Modal Dialog in SharePoint 2010
By Manuel Costa, on January 9th, 2012%
Back in SharePoint 2007, it was pretty popular to use the built-in Javascript function MSOTlPn_ShowToolPane2Wrapper to put the Web part page into edit mode and have the Web part properties editable. Typically, you would put something like the following in your Web part class code:
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
{
if (this.Page != null)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(SelectedListName))
{
placeHolderLiteral.Text = “Web part . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Create ‘Open Tool Pane’ link in custom .NET Web Parts for SharePoint 2010
By Tommy Boswell, on December 20th, 2011%
Problem
SharePoint stores documents in document libraries. There are folders to group different types of documents into a document library. But the problem is, it just provides a logical grouping, it doesn’t provide any special attributes, metadata or object model to support the complete set of documents. For example, a folder doesn’t allow trigger any workflows.
Solution
In SharePoint . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to Create and Use Document Sets in SharePoint 2010
By Manuel Costa, on December 13th, 2011%
When you design your email in SharePoint Designer workflows, you do not get the opportunity to include blind carbon-copy recipients. Here is the initial screenshot:
In order to add BCC, you need to click Advanced Properties located in the ribbon UI:
This will launch a separate window where you can now set your . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Add BCC Recipient in SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow E-Mails
By Tommy Boswell, on December 9th, 2011%
Unless you’ve been under a rock, or the aliens abducted you, you must have heard about SP2010 by now. There are many exciting changes around SP2010, and this blogpost deals with the changes specifically around your development environment.
Two major new developments -
a) VS2010 comes with SharePoint dev tools, and
b) SharePoint 2010 can now be installed on . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Tips SharePoint 2010 Development Environment