Monthly Archives: May 2011

SharePoint branding: automatically resizing backup fonts on browser capability

Here is the scenario: you’re creating a markup and styles for a SharePoint site (likely a public site). You’re not too sure what browsers are going to be accessing the site and definitely not sure which fonts those browsers are … Continue reading

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DevTeach: Learn all about SharePoint 2010in the cloud and external data

Next week, Thursday, Jun 2nd I’ll be speaking at DevTeach 2011, this time, in Montreal. If you’re attending or planning to attend – you’ll have a chance to learn and see it in action: all about SharePoint 2010 customizations for … Continue reading

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SharePoint Branding: improving page editing experience for content authors

While working on the branding of your SharePoint site, you are likely to work heavily with web part zones. Usually, you can wrap web part zones in your custom DIVs to position them properly on your page. The end use … Continue reading

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SharePoint Branding: retaining page content when in edit mode

When branding a SharePoint 2010 site, both Publishing and Collaboration template, you’re likely to touch masterpage and pages to apply custom look and feel. In my latest SharePoint branding book we look at many customizations and branding methods; in this … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 in the cloud: All about development and customizations

If you didn’t have a chance to attend our May 17th, 2011 VanSPUG meeting – we have a partial recording of our session available. The source code of the code examples we used can be also found here. Enjoy! SharePoint … Continue reading

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All the details involved in creating SharePoint 2010 site templates in Visual Studio

SharePoint site template is a core component allowing you to make deploy a set of a functionality to the site. In this screencast we’ll take a look at all the details involved in creating custom site templates in Visual Studio … Continue reading

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All you need to know about SharePoint 2010 ribbon

Watch this SharePoint 2010 ribbon screencast and tell me if there is anything else you would ever need to know about the ribbon Enjoy! All you need to know about SharePoint 2010 ribbon from Yaroslav Pentsarskyy on Vimeo.

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Modifying out of the box SharePoint 2010 workflow form templates

SharePoint 2010 has few out of the box workflows which your site administrators can associate to lists and libraries on the site. If you take one of the workflow, Approval Workflow, for example, you will see that variety of options … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 in the cloud: All about development and customizations

So you’ve heard about public beta announcement of Office 365. SharePoint 2010 in the cloud is one of the exciting new offerings which are part of the release. Vancouver SharePoint Usergroup is holding an event to get you up to … Continue reading

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8 min SharePoint Branding screencast: All about using Telerik controls in your site

It’s not unusual for web developers to use third party controls on the site to improve the look and feel or functionality. SharePoint is no exception. Check out this 8 min screencast to find out what’s involved in starting to … Continue reading

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