SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Create ‘Open Tool Pane’ link in custom .NET Web Parts for SharePoint 2010

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

SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to Create and Use Document Sets in SharePoint 2010

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

HostForLife.EU now supports Web Deploy 2.0 Hosting

HostForLIFE.EU has supported Web Deploy technique on all our hosting plans. With a web deploy technique, a customer can efficiently synchronize sites, applications or servers across your IIS 7.0 server farm by detecting differences between the source and destination content and transferring only those changes which need synchronization.

What is Web Deploy 2.0?

Web Deploy (Web Deployment Tool) simplifies . . . → Read More: HostForLife.EU now supports Web Deploy 2.0 Hosting

SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Add BCC Recipient in SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow E-Mails

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

SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Tips SharePoint 2010 Development Environment

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

SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: SharePoint Workspace 2010 crashes on some systems that were upgraded from Office 2003 or earlier

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

SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: Site Collection Removal Error: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException

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

SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting :: SharePoint 2010 Picture Library and the Client Object Model

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

SharePoint 2010 Hosting :: How to Set a Service Application Administrator in SharePoint 2010

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

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.

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.

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