Category Archives: Development

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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Introducing the Cross Site Collection Search Configurator

Posted on November 8, 2008 by

While I was working at Intergen I was alerted to a small issue with configuring search keywords, best bets and synonyms. This simply being that they are set on a per site collection basis and there is no OOTB solution … Continue reading →

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Turn off custom error pages in SharePoint.

Posted on September 21, 2008 by

There are a number of good posts out there that will tell you how to get useful, for a developer, error messages out of SharePoint. Useful things to know while attempting SharePoint Development A solution to “An unexpected error has … Continue reading →

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SharePoint and Agile

Posted on September 16, 2008 by

Go together like a horse and carriage. Well, that’s my take anyway. I’ve been involved on a few SharePoint projects now that have taken a tradition approach, i.e. waterfall style, to the development of the customers desired end product. While … Continue reading →

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Sorting with a Comparison Delegate

Posted on September 5, 2008 by

I’ve just seen the awesome power of delegates, I can’t believe that I’ve never used them all that much before, mostly because I’ve been able to take advantage of using SQL or CAML to do my ordering, hey adding an … Continue reading →

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