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How To: Automatically provision SharePoint 2010 WIKI pages content

Few posts ago, I published a screencast on how to package your branding customizations as a Visual Studio solution; we looked at how to move CSS, masterpages and even pages, but not WIKI pages. The thing about WIKI pages is … Continue reading

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How To: Get started with branding of Office 365 public SharePoint site

Office 365 has been around for a while and with it you get public SharePoint site which is a quick way to get any public site online using SharePoint. Last time I checked, you get this with personal or small … Continue reading

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Making structural customizations to SharePoint 2010 system pages

In my last post we’ve looked at how you can make changes to your SharePoint 2010 system pages by manipulating CSS for Site and System masterpages. This approach works as long as you don’t have to introduce new controls to … Continue reading

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Customizing SharePoint 2010 breadcrumb – few options

If you worked with SharePoint 2007 breadcrumb, you know that it`s more like a traditional breadcrumb and not like in SharePoint 2010: So, there are few ways to get the old breadcrumb. For both of the scenarios you need to … Continue reading

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Vote for the best TechDays 2011 sessions :) !

If you haven’t heard, TechDays 2011 tour is coming to 3 cities this fall in Canada: Toronto (October 25-26) Vancouver (November 15-16) Montreal (November 29-30) I have just been notified that 3 of my submitted sessions have been shortlisted and … Continue reading

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Hiding SharePoint 2010 ribbon based on the security context

Whether you’re working on the public SharePoint site or an intranet, you might consider hiding SharePoint ribbon for certain users. One of the easiest way to do this, is to use SharePoint out-of-the-box security trimmer and hide the ribbon for … Continue reading

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Automatic SharePoint list provisioning

Lists and libraries are used everywhere in SharePoint, and as your site is being used by your business users, they are likely to want you to add new lists and modify existing ones. Unfortunately, those changes would have to be … Continue reading

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SharePoint Branding: switching stylesheet based on browser capabilities

When branding SharePoint site, especially for older browsers, you will often want to provide flexible user experience depending on the type of browser your site visitors are using. As you’ve seen in my branding book, extending SharePoint controls can help … Continue reading

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DevTeach 2011 in Montreal: it’s a wrap!

Thanks everyone who attended my 2 sessions at DevTeach in Montreal; hopefully you had fun, as I did. Btw, here is the source to the one of the samples we used. If you haven’t had a chance to attend – … Continue reading

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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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