Monthly Archives: July 2010

25 min screencast on Extending SharePoint 2010 document ID provider

In my last article on document ID we looked at how 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. … Continue reading

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Automatically provisioning default webparts on a page with a new site template

When provisioning your SharePoint site automatically with a script – you often create site templates for your sites and sub sites to bundle up pieces of functionality such as page layouts and other features to be created and instantiated when … Continue reading

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Enhancing SharePoint lists and libraries with image picker

If you worked with SharePoint lists and libraries you probably noticed that you have an ability to add an Image type field or a hyperlink. When you add one using SharePoint UI …. you end up with somehting that looks … Continue reading

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Searching SharePoint list metadata by lookup column

It’s a common task to search SharePoint lists and libraries using an SPQuery mechanism. The rules are pretty simple, you write a query involving columns and values you would like to filter and get the results back. Things are not … Continue reading

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Provisioning SharePoint lookups fields into existing list schema

In SharePoint lookup fields allow you to display information from a parent list in the child list. At the time of you provisioning the child list you must already have a parent list where the field is going to be … Continue reading

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Creating search scopes for SharePoint site collection

When working on a intranet or external site in SharePoint – chances are that you are going to incorporate search in your solution. In some cases you would probably need to separate your search results based on a rule and … Continue reading

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Automatically enabling anonymous authentication on SharePoint 2010 site

When building public site using SharePoint 2010 one of the items on the list is to make the site accessible to anonymous user – obviously. There are few things involved having this happen. First setting must be performed on Web … Continue reading

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Setting your SharePoint 2010 masterpage programatically

If you worked with SharePoint 2010 master pages – you probably will know that now SharePoint allows you to set separate master page for system and the rest of the site. That’s great, but there are few tricks to it. … Continue reading

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Parsing SharePoint site structure to generate sitemap

In the last article we looked at how you can use SharePoint 2010 Timer Job framework to schedule parsing of our SharePoint site on defined schedule. Now that we implemented basic framework of a timer job, we’ll create an actual … Continue reading

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TechDays 2010 session – first glance (SharePoint – what’s new for .NET devs)

I am super excited to find out that this year I will be a session lead for TechDays 2010. My session main theme is Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for the Microsoft ASP.NET Developer. Over the next few weeks I will … Continue reading

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