SharePoint Calendar is a great tool to manage events related to your site and also provides many other capabilities like creating multiple calendars and overlaying calendars. The Problem What about exporting individual events as .ical so you can add them...

The Problem If you are using custom web templates to create your site, you may face an issue where InfoPath forms don’t work in your site. Here is the screen shot of the error message: What is missing? The InfoPath site feature is missing. You can check...

Earlier I blogged about how to make use of the new dialog framework in SharePoint 2010. It covered working with Application Pages in the _layouts directory. What about sandboxed solutions? Can you create custom sandboxed dialogs? Yes, you can! It involves...

Below is a simple code snippet that you can wrap in a site scoped feature to publish and subscribe to content types from a content type hub. As a precaution, please be careful to use this code snippet in production unless you have thoroughly tested it...

The Problem Web templates allows you to specify which features to activate by customising the onet.xml file. Usually developers will pick the nearest one or more site definition’s onet.xml they want to use – copy the WebFeatures and SiteFeatures...

I have had some interesting discussions with Wayne Ewington and others on what base template should you use for web templates. A little background to what this base template means to web templates: Web Templates depend on an existing site definition installed...

As promised, you can download my session – Provisioning SharePoint Sites Using Web Templates – slide deck and sample. Provisioning Sites in SharePoint 2010 Using Web Templates View more presentations from Chakkaradeep Chandran . The sample is a Sandboxed...