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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Lock down your site: SharePoint Designer 2010 settings programmatically
When you’re developing your custom SharePoint site that is going to be deployed as a solution – the last thing you want is your users accessing the site with SharePoint designer and changing the branding you spent last 2 weeks … Continue reading
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Keep you SharePoint 2010 content fresh: Tips on using retention policies
When you deploy new SharePoint intranet or public site one of the greatest issues is to keep your content up to date. Department leads who are in charge of keeping the content fresh don’t have time to update the site … Continue reading
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SharePoint 2010 BCS: Adding custom Create/Update/Delete methods
With Visual Studio 2010 you can crete a sample BCS model that will allow you to create an external list and grab external data to present in SharePoint. Visual Studio has a great template showing you how you can create … Continue reading
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VanSPUG Apr 21: Developer focused presentation on SharePoint 2010
Yesterday we had a great VanSPUG presentation by Shereen. We touched base on variety on interesting , developer focused topics that take known MOSS approaches and see how things changed in SharePoint 2010. Very light and easy to watch, Enjoy! … Continue reading
Robust SharePoint 2010 solution deployment with custom Poweshell script
Last time I talked about Powershell and SharePoint 2010 deployment we looked at Creating SharePoint 2010 site structure automatically with PowerShell; which is a quick way to script your site and page creation. But that’s not all, where is the … Continue reading
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Display debugging details in your custom _layouts pages & web services
If you develope SharePoint custom application pages sitting in _layouts folder, you probably often face the situation when the error is happening on a page and all you got is some basic SharePoint information or in some cases you can’t … Continue reading
Resolving issues with custom SharePoint web services interacting with client side Javascript
Here is the scenario: You’re working on a custom functionality in SharePoint that will be implementing Javascript call to your custom web service and returning some rsults as JSON. We’ll make it a POST call. Considering that you already provisioned your … Continue reading
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Setting SharePoint to allow upload of large files (Maximum request length exceeded)
Here is the scenario: your users upload large architectual drawings or similar types of documents to their SharePoint document libraries and they get the following error “Maximum request length exceeded” or you want to make sure your users can’t upload … Continue reading
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Programatically provisioning site collections in SharePoint 2010
Here is the scenario: youd like to give your users the ability to create department sites; but you’d like to make sure they don’t exceed storage usage on the site. One way to achieve this is to let your users … Continue reading
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Debug your SharePoint applications better than ever before
If you’re doing innovative development with SharePoint – and that’s what like 99% of it, you probably run into the scenarios where you really want to get to the bottom of things and find out how the product behaves when … Continue reading
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