What is the SharePoint Action Framework and why would I need it ? SAF, January 1, 0001 For those out there that are a little curious as to whether SAF is any use to your organisation, please read this FAQ. What is SAF ? SAF is free to use. SAF is the "SharePoint Action Framework", it was ... What is the SharePoint Action Framework and why would I need it ? 0 0 0
Using SharePoint PeoplePicker control in custom ASP.NET pages Jignesh Gangajaliya, January 1, 0001 I was developing custom ASP.NET page for a SharePoint project, and the page uses SharePoint PeoplePicker control. I needed to manipulate the control on the client side based on the user inputs. PeoplePicker ... Using SharePoint PeoplePicker control in custom ASP.NET pages 0 0 4
When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects in Team F... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects in Team Foundation Server 2010Well, it depends…. If you are a small company that creates a finite number of internal projects then you ... When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects in Team F... 0 0 12
F# – Converting your C# brain to the F# way MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 My brain still thinks in C#!!! I have been looking at F# and trying to figure out the basics of it, but all the time in the back of my mind I am going – what is the C# equivalent to this or that… It’s ... F# – Converting your C# brain to the F# way 0 0 7
An Honest look at SharePoint Web Services juanlarios, January 1, 0001 INTRODUCTION If you are a SharePoint developer you know that there are two basic ways to develop against SharePoint. 1) The object Model 2) Web services. SharePoint object model has the advantage of being ... An Honest look at SharePoint Web Services 0 0 0
Houston We have a Problem with Silverlight Client OM… MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So I was playing around with NavigationNodeCollection, which is basically like SPNavigationNodeCollection just to make sure it worked without a hitch…Here is a little sample snippet of what should work: ... Houston We have a Problem with Silverlight Client OM… 0 0 2
Can’t eject external USB or Firewire drive in Windows 7 Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 As a SharePoint developer, I work a lot with Virtual Machines (presently using Windows Virtual PC, with Windows 7). I’m using these VMs with my laptop, and in order to get better performance, I’ve moved ... Can’t eject external USB or Firewire drive in Windows 7 0 0 1
SPRoleAssignment Crazy Caveats MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I’m not sure if this bug exists on any other environment, but here are a few issues I ran into when trying to use SPRoleAssignment and SPGroup: When trying to use Web.Groups[“GroupName”] it basically told ... SPRoleAssignment Crazy Caveats 0 0 0
Firefox for NTLM secured sites Sarang, January 1, 0001 Spent the last weekend fighting to get firefox to connect to a sharepoint portal hosting my homegrown TFS instance's TFS/WEB and team project portal from a friends' place. Firefox is THE favourite browser ... Firefox for NTLM secured sites 0 0 1
Useful Sharepoint Goodies Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 I came across this list of very interesting stuff below (and it could save lots for time) 1. Faceted Search: http://facetedsearch.codepl... 2. Podcasting Kit for SharePoint: http://pks.codeplex.com/ ... Useful Sharepoint Goodies 0 0 0
AIS is hiring! Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 My company, Applied Information Sciences (AIS), is currently hiring for multiple positions. AIS is growing and we have immediate needs for all levels of technologists with a focus developing on the Microsoft ... AIS is hiring! 0 0 0
Reduced/Less options after extending Sharepoint site to Forms Aut... Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 After extending a windows Authenticaton site in sharepoint to use Forms Authentication a user compained she couldn't export a list to spreadsheet and that the option under the actions menu was missing. ... Reduced/Less options after extending Sharepoint site to Forms Aut... 0 0 0
Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build S... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build Services 2010This is SSW’s first time using Team Build 2010 to automatically create a Silverlight application. In the past the ... Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build S... 0 0 6
jQuery Slideshow shehan, January 1, 0001 Here are steps on setting up a slideshow on your SharePoint site really fast using a Content Editor WebPart (CEWP), jQuery and a Picture Library. The jQuery for the slide show makes use of the Cycle plug-in ... jQuery Slideshow 0 0 37
Upcoming Presentations MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 Conferences: SSWUG.org VConference, 4 sessions, April 7,8, and 9, Register at http://www.vconferenceonlin... SharePoint .org Conference, 2 sessions, April 18-21, http://www.sharepointconfer... ... Upcoming Presentations 0 0 0
Winnipeg Code Camp Rolls On! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Lunch has been devoured, prizes have been handed out, and now its all about the afternoon sessions! We had some great prizes handed out: a full Telerik suite, JetBrains licenses, O’Reilly books, a conference ... Winnipeg Code Camp Rolls On! 0 0 0
Windows 2008 R2, ISA 2006, and LDAPS Pre-Authentication Ryan Roussel, January 1, 0001 In the last few months, we moved our Active Directory to Windows 2008 R2. We also recently deployed ISA 2006 to front end for all of our internet facing web services including SharePoint, Team Foundation ... Windows 2008 R2, ISA 2006, and LDAPS Pre-Authentication 0 0 0
Pluralsight On-Demand Training library Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: General Pluralsight is an online .NET Training library which provides online training materials for .NET developers. Example trainings available on demand: · .NET 3.5 · Agile Team Practices ... Pluralsight On-Demand Training library 0 0 0
Pre-populate a textbox using jQuery shehan, January 1, 0001 Here’s the scenario: I have a form which contains a textbox. This textbox should be populated with a query string value. Users should not be able to edit the value of the textbox while adding the item. ... Pre-populate a textbox using jQuery 0 0 8
Sync *This*! andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Liveside.net and Mary Jo Foley are reporting that rumors of Live Mesh’s death are greatly exaggerated. That’s excellent, as far as I’m concerned. Mesh is a good product, and it would be a huge pain if ... Sync *This*! 0 0 0
Possible to write Memory leak free code, but SharePoint might sti... juanlarios, January 1, 0001 I had an interesting scenario where a bunch of memory leaks were showing up. I googled around and found a bunch of issues. I'm sure if you are reading this, you have either just started the search or have ... Possible to write Memory leak free code, but SharePoint might sti... 0 0 0
Deleting SharePoint Groups from Site Collection juanlarios, January 1, 0001 I recently wrote a feature that was to be activated on a custom site definition. I believe this is called Feature Stapling. I could be wrong. Either post will show you the funny thing I found when trying ... Deleting SharePoint Groups from Site Collection 0 0 3
Azure - Part 1 - Introduction Shaun, January 1, 0001 To me Azure is a new technology but in fact it's not that new. In the PDC08 Microsoft announced that their cloud computing platform had been released with the name Azure, which stand for the color of the ... Azure - Part 1 - Introduction 0 0 1
How to Connect to a Restored Content Database in SharePoint Tray Harrison, January 1, 0001 Occasionally you’ll need to restore content databases in SharePoint, whether to recover some lost data or refresh a dev/test environment. Here are the steps needed in order to access the new data: Determine ... How to Connect to a Restored Content Database in SharePoint 0 0 0
GuesPost: Typemock Isolator – Much more than an Isolation f... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 This is the second guest post from Gil Zilberfeld who works at TypeMock and kindly agreed to do a couple of guest posts on Mocking . The first was an Introduction to Mocking. Typemock Isolator – Much more ... GuesPost: Typemock Isolator – Much more than an Isolation f... 0 0 3
Installing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express on an existi... Bob Porter, January 1, 0001 This should not require a blog post! That being said, I struggled on and off for several days before I hit the right sequence of steps to install the SSMS package onto my existing instance of SQL Server ... Installing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express on an existi... 0 0 10
Get Your Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit Scott Spradlin, January 1, 0001 Last week, the Microsoft Visual Studio team released a new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit that works with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. The training kit This includes ... Get Your Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit 0 0 0
SharePoint Excel Services 2007 is Exciting, HUH? Mike Huguet, January 1, 0001 Over the past three plus years that I have been working with SharePoint, I have never had the pleasure of giving an Excel Services presentation to a client. Well, thanks to our awesome sales team this ... SharePoint Excel Services 2007 is Exciting, HUH? 0 0 0
Virtual Machines for Consultants and Developers Bob Porter, January 1, 0001 This is not a new topic for most of us, however there are aspects of using Virtual Machines that are applicable to us as developers and consultants that are not often discussed. As a consultant, when I ... Virtual Machines for Consultants and Developers 0 0 3
December 2009 Cumulative Updates for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Manesh Karunakaran, January 1, 0001 December 2009 Cumulative Updates are available for download for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Cumulative Updates will now always be available at the Update ... December 2009 Cumulative Updates for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 0 0 0
Automating SharePoint configuration with MSBuild and SAF SAF, January 1, 0001 One of the major areas developed for v2 of the SharePoint Action Framework (SAF) is its ability to integrate tightly with Msbuild. In order to get SAF working, you simply need to reference the Msbuild ... Automating SharePoint configuration with MSBuild and SAF 0 0 1
Examples of SAF Macros released for ALL actions... SAF, January 1, 0001 Action Description Example AddLookupColumnToList Creates a new <b>list</b>-scoped lookup column pointing to an existing list. Download Quickstart AddSiteColumnToContentType Adds a site column ... Examples of SAF Macros released for ALL actions... 0 0 0
Exception setting "ThreadOptions" in SharePoint 2010 Ma... Lance Robinson, January 1, 0001 Right after you install SP2010 (Foundation or Server), even on a completely updated Windows Server 2008 SP2, when you go to start the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (the recommended PowerShell interface ... Exception setting "ThreadOptions" in SharePoint 2010 Ma... 0 0 4
Site Templates in SharePoint 2010 Lance Robinson, January 1, 0001 There are still Site Template in SharePoint 2010, but they're no longer .STP files. Instead, they're packaged in .WSP files just like web parts and features. No longer is there a "Site Template Gallery", ... Site Templates in SharePoint 2010 0 0 24
Changing Page Layout with SharePoint Designer 2010 Lance Robinson, January 1, 0001 Don't like one of your page layouts on your SharePoint Site? No problem, you can solve this problem quickly and easily using the free SharePoint Designer. It doesn't take any programming, just a couple ... Changing Page Layout with SharePoint Designer 2010 0 0 8
Devil’s Advocate, 7 Series andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Today’s briefing by Microsoft on their re-booted mobile platform and strategy was very impressive. The prototype hardware they showed looked great and the UI was attractive, productive and unique; it was ... Devil’s Advocate, 7 Series 0 0 2
Installing Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint 2007 v3 Bob Porter, January 1, 0001 I have been using VSeWSS 1.3 since it first became available. As of this writing it is still in the CTP release stage. The previous version, 1.2 is still available, but the biggest advantage of the 1.3 ... Installing Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint 2007 v3 0 0 2
Resurrecting My Sony Palm Clie NX70V Bob Porter, January 1, 0001 Recently my son had noticed that I was reading eBooks on my BlackBerry Storm using MobiPocket reader. Since he and I share an interest in a lot of the same books, he inquired as to if he could do the same ... Resurrecting My Sony Palm Clie NX70V 0 0 12
VS2010 Training Kit Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 With the release of the VS2010 Release Candidate, a new edition of the training kit has also been released. Some of the features: 17 presentations, 22 demos, 32 hands-on labs. Newly added content includes ... VS2010 Training Kit 0 0 1
Sharepoint Search Stopped Working: Event ID: 2436 Event ID: 242... kversaw, January 1, 0001 The Technology: WSS 3.0 running on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, Service Pack 2. The Issue: Sharepoint search stops working, for no apparent reason. Some Clues: At the scheduled time when the ... Sharepoint Search Stopped Working: Event ID: 2436 Event ID: 242... 0 0 3
LinqToBitTorrent - a custom .NET Linq provider for BitTorrents Michael Ballhaus, January 1, 0001 LINQ to BitTorrent is a custom .NET LINQ query provider implementation that translates LINQ queries into HTTP requests that accesses various BitTorrent search engine APIs and RSS feeds. Full documentation ... LinqToBitTorrent - a custom .NET Linq provider for BitTorrents 0 0 15
SharePoint 2007: “Failed to extract the cab file in the sol... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I ran into an error today, while trying to execute the following: stsadm –o addsolution mySolution.wsp . The error was “Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.” A quick search found blog entries ... SharePoint 2007: “Failed to extract the cab file in the sol... 0 0 0
NEW Video – Talking with NewsGator at PDC 2009 Murray Gordon, January 1, 0001 Video Link - http://channel9.msdn.com/po... At PDC this year, our team spoke to Glenn Berry of NewsGator Technologies, an RSS platform company, about their ... NEW Video – Talking with NewsGator at PDC 2009 0 0 0
Preparing SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Development Machine MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 AS you already know SharePoint 2010 is in Beta release and it only supported for 64-bit OS. I am sorry for them who are looking for a SP2010 version for 32-bit OS. Here i will explain what you need to ... Preparing SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Development Machine 0 0 0
SAF v2 is released. SAF, January 1, 0001 SAF v2 is now freely available to download from CodePlex @ http://saf.codeplex.com Major points worth noting in this release : - Loads more actions to help you automatically configure SharePoint. - Downloadable ... SAF v2 is released. 0 0 0
SharePoint Lingos and Acronyms Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Ok so now we've reached the 2010 SharePoint version milestone, let's see how we got here: SharePoint last 3 major versions: 2003 -> 2007 -> 2010 (The year doesn't necessary correspond exactly to ... SharePoint Lingos and Acronyms 0 0 8
New York Area Community Stuff MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I’ve been running around trying to find my place in the community not quite situated yet. This past Monday I attended a community social event where all the community leaders in the area got together and ... New York Area Community Stuff 0 0 0
Migrating the Publishing Pages for Fun and Profit MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 This week and the following weeks I will be working through a ton of recursive functions to move a rather hefty page library into a Site Collection and subwebs. I figure while I am having some “fun” you ... Migrating the Publishing Pages for Fun and Profit 0 0 2
What news in Visual Studio 2010 Mai Nguyen, January 1, 0001 Set your ideas free Create what you can imagine, build on the strengths of your team, and open up new possibilities. · New prototyping, modeling, and visual design tools enable you to create innovative ... What news in Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
How to debug SharePoint feature receivers Geordie, January 1, 0001 Just a quick one to detail how this is done in case someone finds it useful. For those still getting into working with SharePoint features, a feature receiver is a class which contains some code you've ... How to debug SharePoint feature receivers 0 0 0