Monthly Archives: March 2010

Adding custom metadata to your custom lists and libraries

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When working with custom document libraries you often need to add custom items as a metadata fields. When defining your custom list or library in a feature you`d expect that your custom fields will show up in New and Edit … Continue reading →

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Deploying referenced assemblies with your VS2010 SharePoint 2010 WSP solution

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: you have SharePoint 2010 solution created with Visual Studio 2010, if you’re creating a sandbox or test project in it – easy enough Visual Studio will take care of the deployment for you. As soon as … Continue reading →

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Customizing SharePoint 2010 item forms with Visual Studio 2010

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

About a week ago I was talking about Dynamically changing list rendering templates using SharePoint designer which allows you to personalize your New/Edit and Display/View forma templates or have custom logic or controls on it. In the example last week, … Continue reading →

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Retrieve SharePoint 2010 user social metadata programatically

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

About a week ago Pete Dutchinson dropped me a note about a cool extension he’s working on, which prompted me to spend some time looking into managing User Profiles programatically; which is what I’ll write about here today. If you … Continue reading →

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Creating SharePoint 2010 site structure automatically with PowerShell

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Just came back from a usergroup meeting where Charles Cote was talking about PowerShell and got inspired to share a piece of script that does site auto provisioning in SharePoint 2010. Whether you have a complex site hierarchy or just … Continue reading →

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Interview: Sing Chan on branding for SharePoint 2010

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

You know that feeling when you finish your next public website that will be visited by hundreds and thousands of people each day, well, neither do I but I can imagine; that’s why I decided to talk to Sing today (his … Continue reading →

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Removing metadata from SharePoint 2010 search results

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Recently I have been involved in a solution where I needed to customize my Search Core Results webpart. In short; I had to remove Created By and replace it with a piece of metadata called alias. Seems like a trivial … Continue reading →

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Dynamically changing SharePoint 2010 list form rendering templates

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: you have few lists in your portal that`s already deployed in production environment and contain data. Here you realize that you need to adjust one of the lists` rendering template to remove some information on a … Continue reading →

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Interview: SharePoint 2010 from Visual Design standpoint

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Today I had short but very interesting interview with Kurtis Beard, from Habanero Consulting. Kurtis is an Interaction Designer and stands behind some of the most stunning site designs. Kurtis has been involved in creating design for few SharePoint 2010 … Continue reading →

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