Category Archives: wss

Creating sites of custom templates with SharePoint Designer workflow

In simple situation, when you`re advanced user rather than developer – SharePoint designer can be quite handy; if you find some of it`s capabilities limiting – check out custom SPD activities on codeplex: http://spdactivities.codeplex.com/ Among few there you can find activity … Continue reading

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Programmatically hide sharepoint web from default navigation

If you worked with publishing pages before you’re probably are familiar with the functionality to hide sites from navigation menu. Something like this: If you’re building a solution you probably want to script this functionality as a feature so you can … Continue reading

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Incorporating outside hosted video in your SharePoint site

I`m working on an Internet solution utilizing SharePoint and one of the things that will be available in a final release is the ability for content administrators to upload videos to vimeo.com and them being automatically picked by designated section … Continue reading

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Loading and consuming complex webpart properties

When you develop your webparts most likely you want to make them configurable through web part properties dialog. In quite few cases I wanted to go a bit further than out of the box text boxes. In my case I … Continue reading

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Granular SharePoint content deployment

If you worked with SharePoint content deployment you`re probably familiar with some limitations of out of the box tool including the ability to only perform content deployment of entrire web. In some cases you may want to go mre granular … Continue reading

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Automatic content provisioning to your SharePoint site – part 2

In my last article I talked about how you can provision content to document libraries and lists at the time of those document libraries being created as a part of your deployment. This technique is quite common when you deploy … Continue reading

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Automatic content provisioning to your SharePoint site

Whether your still testing your future SharePoint site or ready to make a first QA or Prod deployment – you probably need to ship some content and not just empty sites. Even you landing pages pictures will have to be … Continue reading

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SharePoint object model explorer

Decided to share a SharePoint tool with you that have been in my toolbox for a bit and I noticed that haven`t really utilized it to the full extent. As you develop custom apps for Sharepoint: features, webparts, event handlers … Continue reading

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Prevent memory leaks in your SharePoint custom solutions

If you developed sharepoint (and not only) custom solutions for a while you already know that disposing SP objects especially large ones like SPWeb and SPSite is a standard practice. Mainly because you don’t want to troubleshooting performance and other … Continue reading

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Unit testing your Sharepoint deployment

That`s right, not just custom solutions testing but overall deployment. Unit testing is something that we too often find applicable to individual unit of functionality: a webpart, a feature, an event handler, a web service etc. How do we go … Continue reading

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