Monthly Archives: March 2010

Get the feed of events in your SharePoint 2010 list

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 has lots of cool new webpart that from what I can tell I just start to uncover. Today, What’s New Webpart  allows you to “connect” to few lists and feed information when items are changed or added in … Continue reading →

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How To: Create custom SharePoint 2010 User Profile properties programatically

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yesterday I talked about how you can create user profiles and assign profile properties programatically. In some instances you would probably want to extend User Profile Service application properties to include your custom properties of different types. You can extend … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 BCS list throttling for external lists using Powershell

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you  already know that in SharePoint 2010 there is a notion of external lists allowing you to bring external data from various sources to an External lists. At the time of data retrieval there isn`t much information on how … Continue reading →

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VanSPUG meeting: Bill England and David Whitehead on Client applications for SharePoint

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yesterday, Bill England and David Whitehead from Colligo presented on client applications interacting SharePoint. These days when everyone is sitting in MS Outlook most of the time – it`s hard for users to get bought into a new notion of … Continue reading →

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How to: Define Person or Group SharePoint 2010 field in your schema

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you know both in MOSS and SharePoint 2010 you have an ability to create a field in your lists and libraries representing a Person or a Group: One of the cool things about this feature is that you can … Continue reading →

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How To: Package on build in your Visual Studio SharePoint 2010 solution

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In Visual Studio 2010 you have cool new features allowing you to build and package and deploy your solution. In most cases, when you’re dealing with a simple set of tasks the separation between build and package and deploy is ok; … Continue reading →

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How to: click a custom ribbon button, show custom page in SharePoint 2010 modal

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In SharePoint 2010 you see a lot of the modals poping up when you click through ribbon buttons. You probably wonder how you can create something similar to this yourself: We’ll start with a blanc Visual Studio solution and add … Continue reading →

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Referencing external JavaScript when building custom SharePoint 2010 ribbon

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

I assume you already tried working with SharePoint 2010 ribbon and you already know the structure of how you can create basic ribbon controls. One of the most commond things that you might be doing when creating your custom ribbon … Continue reading →

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Resolving VS 2010 solution deployment issues for SharePoint 2010 projects

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my new SharePoint 2010 book, I touch base on variety of deployment approaches; in this article I wanted to focus on Visual Studio 2010 feature allowing to deploy SharePoint 2010 solutions right to the portal. However, if you haven’t … Continue reading →

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