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 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
By Manuel Costa, on December 8th, 2011%
SharePoint Workspace 2010 might crash on startup or during account configuration under the following circumstances:
You upgraded to Office 2010 from Office 2003 or an earlier version of Office.
Your operating system is Windows XP SP3.
Your computer is NOT a tablet system.
The cause of the problem has to do with an incompatibility with Handwriting Recognition software that was . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: SharePoint Workspace 2010 crashes on some systems that were upgraded from Office 2003 or earlier
By Tommy Boswell, on November 30th, 2011%
While creating a new site collection using the Central Administration page, we encountered an error whilst waiting for the “Processing…” window to complete. Fair enough, we looked at the logs, fixed the issue and tried the whole . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Site Collection Removal Error: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException
By Manuel Costa, on November 29th, 2011%
The goal of a recent project was to provide a way for a non-technical person to be able to add images and metadata to an ASP.NET page without the intervention of a developer. I’m using SharePoint Foundation 2010 as the “user-friendly” interface where anyone with the right permissions can upload an image and add some metadata. . . . → Read More: SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting :: SharePoint 2010 Picture Library and the Client Object Model
By Tommy Boswell, on November 23rd, 2011%
SharePoint 2010 allows Farm Administrators the ability to delegate administrators for individual Service Applications. Once provisioned, the Service Application Administrator will gain access to a security-trimmed Central Administration where they can only access and configure the roles granted to them. This is perfect for scenarios when perhaps you want to offload the Profile, Managed Metadata, or . . . → Read More: SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to Set a Service Application Administrator in SharePoint 2010
By Tommy Boswell, on November 14th, 2011%
When trying to publish a page in SharePoint 2010 publishing template, you get this error:
The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator.
Problem:
The State Service is not configured. When you decide to configure everything yourself when installing 2010, the . . . → Read More: SharePoint Server 2010 :: Solve – The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator.
By Ricardo Neill, on November 3rd, 2011%
We will now look at the setup required on our Exchange server to complete the task; this is the same in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.
The first step is to create a new send connector so in Exchange Management Console navigate to Organization Configuration|Hub Transport and click the send connectors tab. In the actions pane on . . . → Read More: SharePoint Server 2010 Hosting :: How To Configure Exchange 2010 to route mail to SharePoint
By Ricardo Neill, on November 2nd, 2011%
We are working on a continuing SharePoint 2010 support project for a group of school one of the features they require is the ability for students to be able to have a drop box to submit their work to teachers, this is a perfect example of the use of mail enabled document libraries in SharePoint so . . . → Read More: SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting :: Steps-by-Steps to Setup Mail Enabled Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010