Category Archives: Development

VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

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 by

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 by

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 →

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Data import and ‘old’ dates

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

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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Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

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 by

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

SPEasy Setup Scripts: Gotcha!

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

A workmate of mine just recently used the SharePoint Easy Setup Script to setup a Windows 7 machine for SharePoint development. Upon trying to browse newly created Web Applications with host headers he was prompted to authenticate but these authentication … Continue reading →

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Serving HTML5 Video from SharePoint Document Libraries

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

So you want to serve up some video content and use the <video> tag? Cool! You want to do it using video files you have in SharePoint? Cool, that shouldn’t be too hard. Unfortunately out of the box SharePoint 2010 … Continue reading →

Posted in Configuration, Development, HTML5, SharePoint | 3 Comments

Disable Mobile Redirection for a Web Application via PowerShell

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

So I’ve got a SharePoint site that is optimised for viewing in mobile browsers, problem is that OOTB SharePoint is trying to show the fugly “mobile view”. Now Waldek has a post about just this problem, in my case I’ve … Continue reading →

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Provisioning Web Parts via the AllUsersWebParts element

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

Right, so you want to have a Page Layout that contains some web parts when a user creates a page using that layout. Cool, no problem, use an <AllUsersWebParts> element just like Andrew Connell blogs about problem is, if you … Continue reading →

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