Monthly Archives: April 2011

SharePoint 2010 Branding with Visual Studio

If you had a chance to watch my last screencast 15 min SharePoint 2010 branding session you may be interested in moving over your applied branding to Visual Studio package. If so, check it out here: SharePoint 2010 Branding with … Continue reading

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15 min SharePoint 2010 branding session

One of the most common scenarios related to SharePoint branding is the need to transfer already existing sliced markup created by the team of designers and apply it to SharePoint. In this 15 minutes video you will learn some tips … Continue reading

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Come to “Make web not war” in Vancouver May 7

Forget fighting about software and web development platforms — bring some love instead and attend the free Make Web Not War conference, being held for the first time in Vancouver May 7. Embrace mixed environments and open source harmonizing with … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 Branding in Practice: a guide for web developers

My new book, titled SharePoint 2010 Branding in Practice: a guide for web developers has been released today! I’m personally very excited about this! For almost a year, since SharePoint 2010 has been released, I could not find a single … Continue reading

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Changing default content appearing in SharePoint page breadcrumb

Got a note from Eric today with a scenario I’d like to share here. Say you have a SharePoint 2010 Publishing site with multiple pages in your Pages library: As your users navigate through the site – you want to … Continue reading

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Managing user access to SharePoint web parts

In SharePoint 2010, providing users have sufficient permissions, they can add various web parts available on the site. In larger organizations, various users have different skill levels and although some categories of users might be allowed to edit the page … Continue reading

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Bulk provisioning SharePoint 2010 document retention policies using PowerShell

SharePoint 2010, as well as MOSS, allows you to set up document retention policies on items within a document library. You can choose what action you want to take in regards to a particular instance of a content type in … Continue reading

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Creating rich SharePoint scorecards based on external data

In my last post I discussed how you can connect to external data anywhere (in my example I used SQL Database) and present the data from there as a chart using SharePoint Chart Web Part. In SharePoint 2010, if you … Continue reading

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Building charts in SharePoint 2010 from external data using BCS

In my last post we looked at how you can create simple BCS model in Visual Studio 2010 and present the data as a SharePoint external list. In here, I would like to show you how you can display the … Continue reading

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Getting started with custom SharePoint BCS models

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in not a new concept; in SharePint 2010, however, it’s easier to create BCS model to connect to any custom data residing virtually anywhere and on any system. In this example, I will demonstrate how you can … Continue reading

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