Monthly Archives: September 2010

Disable SharePoint Office web apps when to open documents by default

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you know SharePoint Server 2010 has a cool new Office Web Applications feature, allowing you to open selected office documents in a browser. There are few limitations on which document you can open and which ones you can`t. One … Continue reading →

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Thanks SharePoint Saturday folks!

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Hey hey, and thank you to everyone who made our first ever SharePoint Saturday event possible. I hope you enjoyed SPS sessions and my session as part of it If you’re looking for my session slide deck – you can … Continue reading →

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Customizing SharePoint breadcrumb to diplay pages and leaf nodes

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint uses SiteMapPath to define the breadcrum. If you notice SieMapPath doesn’t display the page which you’re currently on – meaning if you have a site with few pages on it – your breadcrumb will display the site but not … Continue reading →

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Getting a hold of a root node for your SharePoint navigation

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Recently, I had a task where I needed to create a custom navigation for the SharePoint site; which essentially would have a list of menu items but before all of them there would be a link denoting the top level … Continue reading →

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Bringing SQL data into SharePoint list in 8 min

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you attended my TechDays session last week where I demonstrated how you can connect to SQL Server data and present it in SharePoint 2010, here is the video that shows how to do that: Bringing SQL data into SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Have you registered for TechDays 2010 yet?

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you may know I will be speaking at TechDays 2010 in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary this year. Here are the sessions I prepared for you – and for those of you attending in other cities – sessions will be … Continue reading →

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Programmatically provisioning SharePoint 2010 calendar view on pages

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 already has a neat calendar which is styled to change size depending on the size of your Web Part zones – which was a bit pain for MOSS; this makes it a perfect calendar UI for variety of applications … Continue reading →

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Automatically inherit SharePoint web parts from page layouts to child pages

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When building publishing site using SharePoint 2010 it’s quite common to have few web parts that will make it to every page (or close to every page) on the site. An example could be a custom secondary navigation which you … Continue reading →

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