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Document Set Limitations and Considerations in SharePoint 2010

Posted on April 2, 2012

First of all, go and read the excellent article Document Set Limitations and Considerations in SharePoint 2010 written by Michal Pisarek. Ok, you’re back and have read all those? Great! I’ve got a few more for you. Shared Fields are … Continue reading →

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VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons

Posted on April 2, 2012

So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear unbound to source control … Continue reading →

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Create a Document Set in Code

Posted on March 15, 2012

I have a solution where we need to create custom Documents Set via code, luckily there are some good samples out there. However I ran into a strange piece of behaviour. My Document Sets were appearing as folders without Welcome … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Search: Custom Managed Property Woes

Posted on March 3, 2012

So I was working on some custom search interfaces that my team had built and was getting the infamous “Property doesn’t exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings”. Now usually this means that you’re trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Configuration, Development, Search | 2 Comments

Data import and ‘old’ dates

Posted on March 3, 2012

Running a data importing tool my team had developed I ran into this little gem: “Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPInvalidPropertyException: Date Times before 1/1/1970 are not supported”. What the hell? I’ve entered dates prior to 1970 via the UI before. A quick … Continue reading →

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It’s been a while…..

Posted on March 3, 2012

Yeah, I’ve been neglecting my blog. My last post was waaaaay back in October, while I was attending the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the conference. However I didn’t follow through on a couple of … Continue reading →

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SPC366 Making SharePoint Websites Sing on your Smartphone

Posted on October 5, 2011

Well that was fun! I had a real blast co-presesnting that session with Chris. As promised I have a bunch of resources for you to download and peruse. Disabling Mobile Re-direction via PowerShell Hmmm, apparently WordPress won’t let me host … Continue reading →

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Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox

Posted on September 22, 2011

Get ‘em while they’re hot! Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools plus a sandboxed compilation to ensure you’re not accidentally calling outside of the allowed set of types and members.

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SPServices Helper Function: Resolve the Guid of a View

Posted on September 21, 2011

If you’re using the excellent SPServices library to wrap up access to the SharePoint web services from JavaScript, good stuff! If, like me, you want to query a View on a given list you’ll need to pass the Guid of … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, jQuery, SharePoint, SPServices | 5 Comments

TFS 2010: Add to security groups from outside of the current domain

Posted on September 14, 2011

If you’re a SharePoint developer like me, chances are that the dev server you’re working on is joined to a different domain from your corporate identity. Now this makes it tricky to add users to your TFS Security Groups from … Continue reading →

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