Monthly Archives: August 2010

Creating WCF service in SharePoint 2010

Whether you already tried creating WCF service as a standalone website project or WCF library – creating SharePoint hosted WCF add whole new meaning to it Suppose you want to create a service which you can call using URL and … Continue reading

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Getting started with WCF services on SharePoint 2010

As you may know, SharePoint 2010 can host WCF services in it’s environment. There are number of benefits to using WCF over old way of using SOAP. This is going to be one of at least 2 articles I’m planning … Continue reading

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Have SharePoint public site – here is how to make it mobile friendly

SharePoint, especially 2010 release, is becoming more popular as a public site platform – and with an increased number of mobile devices – mobile site experience is expected. Both SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 have mobile support. When user with a … Continue reading

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Automated SharePoint 2010 install/upgrade using PowerShell

When you develop with SharePoint you often have to set up development, build, qa environments, but wait – there is also production etc. All that takes time and SharePoint 2010 really stepped up in how you can quickly automate building of … Continue reading

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Demystifying: SharePoint site collection specific timer jobs

If you worked with timer jobs in SharePoint (both MOSS and 2010) – you know that those execute on Web Application level. There in Central Administration you can see all of the definitions and statuses of running job. In SharePoint … Continue reading

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Programmatically accessing SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade options

One of the cool features in SharePoint 2010 is it’s ability to easily upgrade the site from MOSS. Just recently I have been upgrading a heavily customized site that had custom branding (and I’m talking custom-custom), JQuery calls to web … Continue reading

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Top 60 custom solutions built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Today is pretty exciting day for me – my book titled “Top 60 custom solutions built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010” is available for sale. It’s right now available for purchase here and at Amazon.com and in few more months … Continue reading

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Searching SQL from SharePoint 2010 search UI

In SharePoint 2010 there has been many improvements on how you can access external data and allow for it to be displayed to the user using SharePoint 2010 UI. Search federation is one of those features. Essentially on your search … Continue reading

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Creating custom list alert templates in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 allows you to create custom alert templates per list, meaning you can customize what’s going to show up in your SPList alert body. In this example I won’t focus how you can actually edit the alert CAML – … Continue reading

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DEV302: A Lap around Windows Internet Explorer 9 for Developers

As some of you may know I am presenting few sessions at TechDays.ca  One of the sessions is title “A Lap around Windows Internet Explorer 9 for Developers”, which is actually 20-25 min turbo talk. It’s turbo talk because we’ll … Continue reading

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