Author Archives: gavinbarron

Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox

Posted on September 22, 2011 by gavinbarron

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 gavinbarron

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 | 9 Comments

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

Posted on September 14, 2011 by gavinbarron

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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Office 365 and Passwords

Posted on August 8, 2011 by gavinbarron

Today I learned that the new password policy for Office 365 specifies an upper limit on password length. Yes, that’s right folks, some special person decided that passwords for Office 365, and therefore Exchange Online, should be 8-16 characters in … Continue reading →

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SPEasy Setup Scripts: Gotcha!

Posted on July 19, 2011 by gavinbarron

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 gavinbarron

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 | 9 Comments

Hey where is my <video>?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by gavinbarron

So, I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2 aka Win7 Server. I installed IE 9 but none of the videos on the Video Format Support Page are playing? WTF? That page is from Microsoft to show off the HTML5 support in … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 SP1 is out, but wait there’s more!

Posted on June 29, 2011 by gavinbarron

So SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is available for Download. The SharePoint team are also shipping a June 2011 CU with a bunch of fixes that didn’t get into SP1 and it’s “ strongly recommended to install the June 2011 … Continue reading →

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Running SharePoint Timer Jobs from PowerShell

Posted on June 17, 2011 by gavinbarron

From time to time you need to execute a given SharePoint timer job now. Sure you could go into Central Admin, find it and run it manually, but where’s the fun in that? Plus sometimes you need to automate this, … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint, Timer Jobs | 3 Comments

Browser Caps for WP7 as a Mobile Device

Posted on June 13, 2011 by gavinbarron

So, people are using the Windows Phone 7 browser now, I’m one of them; I love my WP7. Anyway OOTB SharePoint doesn’t recognise the this as a mobile browser. So I had to edit the compat.browser file ( %WebAppRootDir%\ App_Browsers\compat.browser … Continue reading →

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