Monthly Archives: December 2011

How To: Extend SharePoint 2010 third party or legacy webparts in your solution

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Since the title of this post doesn’t really do justice, let’s take a look at a few scenarios. Scenario 1. You have a third party webpart and would like to alter it’s execution flow as much as it permits through … Continue reading →

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How To: Toggle SharePoint 2010 list and library view properties

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint allows users to add views of lists and libraries on the any page within your site. When added, users can toggle various properties of the view just as it was a web part. You can change the appearance settings, … Continue reading →

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How To: Hide SharePoint 2010 fields in display, edit and new forms

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 allows you to choose which fields in your lists will be displayed in the New, Edit, View forms and which ones aren’t. Even though the field will be available to the object model in the code behind, it … Continue reading →

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How To: Customize SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box workflow initiation form

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint allows you to create instances of out-of-the-box workflows anywhere on the site. Once those instances are created, when the workflow gets initialized on the item – your users get to fill in any of the required initiation parameters on … Continue reading →

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How To: Report which documents are on hold and hold details in SharePoint 2010

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 allows you to put documents inside your Record Center on hold; which will exempt those documents from retention policies and workflows. This is a handy feature in case you’re in the middle of an audit and want to … Continue reading →

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How To: Automatically add All Authenticated Users to SharePoint security group

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When performing SharePoint 2010 enterprise solution deployment with Visual Studio, you’re likely to pre-create many of your solution artifacts such as pages with the right web parts on them etc. Security groups is not an exception. Recently I needed to … Continue reading →

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How To: Hide SharePoint 2010 root node from the top menu

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When customizing SharePoint 2010 UI, one of the most common things you come across is to customizing the navigation control. In this post, I’d like to share one of the approaches discussed in my SharePoint 2010 branding book on working … Continue reading →

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How To: Address SharePoint 2010 people editor issue not clearing

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

One of the issues my team noticed on one of the recent projects is that SharePoint 2010 people editor control doesn’t get cleared on a post back when instructed to do so. SharePoint People Editor in my case is defined … Continue reading →

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How To: Configure default BCS Service application for SharePoint 2010 web app

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In most scenarios, you create a SharePoint web application and then provision service applications. In some odd cases you might need to re-create your web application and now all service applications are not assigned to any default web application. This … Continue reading →

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