Monthly Archives: February 2010

Extending Visual Studio 2010 with SharePoint 2010 Server Explorer

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If watched my 10 min screencast on how to extend Server Explorer window with custom nodes – here comes the project code -> Habanero.DevTools.SHarePointExplorerTools And here is a bit of a background. The Visual Studio 2010 add-in will require Visual Studio … Continue reading →

Extending Visual Studio 2010 with custom tools for SharePoint 2010

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

One of the great things in SharePoint 2010 is its close integration with Visual Studio 2010. Today I created my working copy of Server Explorer extension for Visual Studio 2010 and think you would love to know how quick and … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET impersonation in SharePoint 2010 service applications

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Since last few hours I was working on one interesting code problem with @jthake might as well share it here too! Here is the scenario: you need to call SharePoint 2010 Service application functionality under the credentials of another user. … Continue reading →

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Tips and tricks when customizing SharePoint 2010 Blog Post template

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you take a look at out of the box SharePoint 2010 blog post template (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\Blog) it provides a starting point for many applications. In my case I used blog post template and its corresponding … Continue reading →

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Using SharePoint 2010 Publishing site navigation properties

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you`re working with Publishing Site Templates you know there is a neat UI feature allowing you to manage various navigation properties. The UI I`m referring to can be accessed here: http://[your publishing site]/_layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx If you`re provisioning your site through … Continue reading →

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Limiting allowed SharePoint 2010 page layouts on a desired web

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: you created an intranet/Internet portal for a customer with a subset of custom SiteTemplates and custom page layouts. You let your client create new pages (inheriting from your custom page layouts) as they see fit, but … Continue reading →

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Deploying your SharePoint 2010 solution with Powershell

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

That`s right, with SharePoint 2010 you will not only be able to deploy your solutions with PowerShell, it will be more difficult if you did it any other way. For all of you who are still skeptical check out how … Continue reading →

Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010 | Tagged Add-SPSolution, ExecutionPolicy, Get-SPSite, Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell, New-SPSite, powershell, sharepoint 2010, Uninstall-SPSolution | Comments Off

SharePoint 2010 connector to Windows search

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 search has few neat features, some are old some are new in this version. One of the cool features is ability to connect to SharePoint search through windows search and initiate sharepoint queries just like you were on … Continue reading →

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Manage behavior of SharePoint 2010 composite fields

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Let’s say you have a custom rendering template that defines how your New/Edit form is going to look like. You can’t define any events in your rendering template to handle any rules – such as some fields being disabled or … Continue reading →

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Working with unique SharePoint 2010 list item security

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

For about some time I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 solution where I need to heavily customize SharePoint EditItem form. Not a big deal, I created a custom rendering template. I also have a custom Save button that … Continue reading →

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