Recently I found myself stuck on a problem while constructing a query for a stored procedure. Like any other developer when I get stuck I start looking through my “bag of tricks” to see if I can find something that will help me solve this problem, but this time I came up empty handed. That’s [...]
Overview
While SharePoint 2010 supports .NET 3.5, it uses the .NET 2.0 compiler by default for ASP.NET pages. If you write any UserControls or consume any DLLs in your hosted ASPX pages that utilizes .NET 3.5 features such as the var keyword, extension methods, and LINQ, you’ll get compilation error messages when attempting to access those [...]
I recently installed SharePoint 2010 on my client machine to investigate some of the BCS and Search features for a client project. SharePoint 2010 now allows a standalone installation on Vista x64 SP1 or higher and Windows 7 x64, which is a major improvement over the remote development nightmare that existed with MOSS 2007.
For instructions [...]
Using JavaScript in SharePoint forms enables developers to quickly customize the “look and field” and the behavior of a SharePoint form (Display, New or Edit form). It’s quick because you will see the effect directly on the form and given that you are embedding the JavaScript properly (putting the script in a content editor web [...]
Introduction
I first want to mention that I learned how to do this by following the four part workshop written by Robert Shelton. This is a very comprehensive workshop that gives you access to all of the source code and documentation. Where Robert’s workshop walked you through building a complete workflow in Visual Studio [...]
I recently stumbled upon this little bug by accident. If you create a folder called “Forms” in a document library, you won’t be able to re-name it or delete it directly. Backing up for a second, you can’t create a folder called “Forms” directly as a top-level folder in the library – the [...]
This Preview Pane function is OOTB and is always there, you go to “modify this view” in the list and at the view setting page, under the style section, select the “Preview Pane” option:
Open this view now and you will have an easy way to preview all your information by hovering on the list [...]
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Microsoft has made an annoucement on its Business Intelligence strategy by adding Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features (originally a separate product) into MOSS enterprise CAL this week.
Now there is one more reason to LOVE SharePoint!
Read the full press news here.
Do you have a lot of outlook contacts that you want to share with other people? In particular, share it with users in MOSS/WSS 3.0? Do you want to be a power user of both MOSS and outlook 2007? Do you know that you can manage your files, documents and also contacts in outlook 2007 [...]
This was a question popup about a year ago when the client SPS 2003 virtual directory is hosed on a drive other the default C:\Inetpub\wwwroot location.
It all began with a gradual migration, the new targeted web application for MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 is created automatically at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\VirtualDirectories\
while the SPS 2003 site is at E:\Inetpub\wwwroot. At that [...]