Monthly Archives: January 2011

SharePoint 2010 Branding: what’s publishing masterpage all about

When getting into SharePoint 2010 branding, one of the first things you will need to get your hands on is site masterpage is what are all of the components on it. Here I will explain the publishing masterpage which is … Continue reading

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Adding SharePoint web parts to form pages with Visual Studio solution

In my last article – I talked about adding auto-complete capability to your SharePoint forms using SPServices community add-in. We looked at how this can be done manually by users navigating to the page and adding a web part. If … Continue reading

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Approaches to externalizing your information with SharePoint 2010

Few days ago me and Ron had a quick chat about providing external access to information and various approaches to it. We talked about BPOS, Office 365, traditional extranets … check out more here:

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Adding autocomplete to your SharePoint list item forms

In last few days I found an excellent JQuery extension specifically designed for SharePoint allowing you to add autocomplete on your list item forms in very short time. One application where you could use that, is when you have a … Continue reading

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How To: Bubble up authorative SharePoint search results

When it comes to search – it`s what you enter as a keyword will either return desired results or put them on the second page. In this article, I wanted to share with you how you can define a set … Continue reading

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Consuming external web services in SharePoint 2010

The scenario of integrating external web services in your portal is quite common; in here I wanted to show a quick example of how you can integrate SharePoint 2010 with twitter feed. 1. Create new Visual Studio project of Visual … Continue reading

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SPTechCon Special Promo

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Branding SharePoint 2010: Integrating Telerik controls in SharePoint site

More often from .NET developers, but not only, I get asked about integrating third party controls and UI extensions in SharePoint. In my new SP2010 book I cover some of the customizations of that sort; in this article I would … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 multi-tenancy in real life

A while ago – I wrote an article how to set up basic multi tenant environment in your sandbox. The article touched on basic things such as scripts involved in the process. Of course there is more to it. If … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 deployment and architecture guidance

For the past few days I have been working on a design of a mid size SharePoint 2010 deployment and wanted to share few interesting resources which helped me formulating my strategy and hopefully helping will help the client to … Continue reading

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