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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Upgrading SharePoint theme in your custom solutions
While I am on the topic of SharePoint solution upgrade, here is the scenario: My solution is going through an iterative development process. I use themes to enforce the look and feel of my site. Each site (SPWeb) in my … Continue reading
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Tagged sharepoint theme, sharepoint theme reset, sharepoint theme upgrade
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Setting custom 404 pages for your SharePoint site
When developing any portal solutions and especially a public site solution – you have to account that content authors will leave dead links behind. As a developer – you will probably want to account for that by placing proper 404 … Continue reading
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Tagged custom 404, filenotfound, FileNotFoundPage, sharepoint 404
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Upgrading SharePoint webpart properties during solution upgrade
Pretty much any custom SharePoint solution will have web parts deployed as part of it. If it’s in production for a long time – chances are you will be upgrading your artifacts including webparts at least once during the lifetime … Continue reading
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Attaching custom features to out of the box SharePoint 2010 site templates on a farm level
In my last article, Modifying SharePoint 2010 out of the box site templates without breaking them, we looked at how you can attach your custom feature to an out of the box site template; the method also known as feature … Continue reading
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Tagged farm feature stapling, feature stapling, modify out of the box site template
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Modifying SharePoint 2010 out of the box site templates without breaking them
Surely by now you had a situation where you need to modify out of the box site template. Not just a copy of existing template and modify it but modify out of the box template. Whether, you`re after the look … Continue reading
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Programmatically changing the properties of webparts and views in SharePoint 2010
As you know certain web parts in SharePoint are provisioned as view. Those are usually web parts representing a list in SharePoint. One of the examples that comes to mind is Calendar. SharePoint Calendar is a list and if you … Continue reading
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Tagged ChromeType, SPLimitedWebPartManager, spview, view
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Managing SharePoint 2010 modules in Visual Studio
Back in MOSS, manly because of tools like WSP builder – your Visual Studio solution structure strictly relied on folders. You had to have your hierarchy just as it is in 12/14 root: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14 With … Continue reading
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3rd year of my blog
Today marks the third year of my blog. So, I got a little giveaway here. If you’re the first one to guess and direct message me on twitter the answer to “how many posts I have to date on this … Continue reading
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Building custom SharePoint site navigation
Recently I had to create a mobile version of my SharePoint site with it’s own custom landing page that had custom main navigation. I created my hierarchy of sites and pages and one of the few things I needed to … Continue reading