Monthly Archives: May 2010
Deploy your custom SharePoint 2010 document id provider
In my last article on SharePoint 2010 creating custom document Id provider we looked at how to create a sample document id provider. Last time I checked SharePoint 2010 SDK – there is nicely put sample of custom document ID provider … Continue reading
Resolving: View all site content page in SharePoint 2010 showing parent content
There is a quite common problem in SharePoint 2010 that didn’t exist before in MOSS. Here is the problem: You create a main site collection and then a create a sub site under that site collection of any template you … Continue reading
Referencing web part properties in SharePoint 2010 visual web part
Visual Studio 2010 has a new template allowing you to create Visual Web Parts. One advantage of Visual Web Part as opposed to a regular web part is the ability to add user controls and markup of the web part … Continue reading
Creating SharePoint 2010 custom document ID provider
SharePoint 2010 document center allows you to add new documents to the site and then after they are assigned unique ID – be able to find them by that ID. In past versions the problem was that you have no … Continue reading
Video: External Data into SharePoint forms using InfoPath 2010
If you’re into integrating external data from whatever sources: database, web services, content of your SharePoint site into a SharePoint list form – you have to take a look at what InfoPath 2010 has to offer before going all the … Continue reading
Creating Visual Studio project templates for SharePoint 2010 projects
Visual Studio has provided ability to create templates from existing projects for quite a while now. Usually you get a zip file that’s placed into a specific location on your disk and the new template is now available for you to … Continue reading
Allow users to limit available page layouts in your SharePoint 2010 site
When you have a portal where there is a hierarchy of users that author content and the ones that approve it – there is always a chance that one of the other will make an error and set a wrong … Continue reading
Provisioning several SharePoint 2010 pages with one Visual Studio module
When building SharePoint solution consisting on publishing pages in Visual Studio you usually use modules to provision your pages. You might be thinking about the scenario when we have more than one page on the site – do we need … Continue reading
Vanspug Meeting: Taming the Rubics cube that is Sharepoint
Yesterday we had a great Vanspug Information Worker meeting with Werner Harmse about SharePoint implementations and various approaches. Below is the abstract and the vide recording: Some of us enjoy complex puzzles. Most people don’t. With a passion for usability engineering … Continue reading
Add your own search refinement categories in SharePoint 2010 search
One of the chapters in my new SharePoint 2010 book is dedicated to search refinement customization, so I decided to talk about this customization a bit here. Search refinement is an out-of-the-box SharePoint 2010 version of what was previously available … Continue reading