Monthly Archives: December 2009

More Ribbon locations to extend your SharePoint 2010 UI

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Last time we looked at how to extend your SharePoint 2010 Ribbon with the example of adding a button to Ribbon interface of document library or list. In here I would like to share a list of other Location Ids … Continue reading →

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Extending SharePoint 2010 Ribbon

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Just like with Office 2007 Ribbon is a big change in SharePoint 2010 Beta, and there is a lot of interest in extending it as it`s a focal point of a custom application control area. Here we`ll take a look … Continue reading →

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Provision SharePoint site masterpage based on custom logic

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When deploying your SharePoint site you probably are using an automated script that will provision all of your webs and features. If your site has custom master page you can apply the setting for it inside your site template ONET.xml. … Continue reading →

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Forefront Security for SharePoint Tips & Tricks

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you used SharePoint out of the box filtering and AV capabilities you know there is more to wish for. Have you looked at latest Forefront security for SharePoint. Check out this 12 min video below for comparison of features … Continue reading →

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Add SPFieldChoice items in the list

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

One of the things we`re doing at my company with some many SharePoint projects over years is seal custom functionality as Framework Features and deploy them in a separate WSP. When a new project comes on we`re just calling various … Continue reading →

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Tips on SharePoint 2010 UI development

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you’ve been doing UI development for SharePoint 2007 – you know it’s comming – migrating your UI to 2010. Since SharePoint 2010 allows administrators to choose whether their 2010 site will run under old  (current) UI or new slick … Continue reading →

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Update SPListItem without changing Modified By and Modified

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: I have a site provisioning script that creates my publishing site structure; I use a feature that provisions Default page content based on a generic layout and definition. Since my generic feature doesn`t assign title of … Continue reading →

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Provisioning pages with custom content types into SharePoint libraries

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Let`s say you`re building SharePoint portal and your users have a section where they post company news. Let`s say you take advantage of SharePoint Publishing magic to take care of all of the content creation and let your users create … Continue reading →

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SharePoint search doesn’t pick up results from your site

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In some cases when you configure your search on a SharePoint site you may notice that you get no results for the site; this by default happens when you have a search center and trying to crawl its own content. … Continue reading →

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Limiting SharePoint available PageLayout to create new pages from

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When creating new intranet or internet based on SharePoint you probably have lots of sections and topic areas. You probably also have lots of page layouts that you provision to facilitate various functions on your site. The problem comes when … Continue reading →

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