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I have been working on a project that requires creating a content type programmatically.  Admittedly, it took me awhile to figure it out.  You can create a content type for SharePoint declaratively in a feature using XML similar to the following...

ASP.NET developers have enjoyed using user controls and server controls in their development since ASP.NET was created.  This post talks about user controls and server controls and shows how to implement them in SharePoint. User Controls A user control...

An interesting question was posted on one of the distribution lists today. “The client wanted to look into this MSDN drag and drop typed left navigation bar to work on Sharepoint 2010, does anyone make this work or have idea about this?” Click the control...

The IIS 6 Resource Kit Tools includes a tool called TinyGet to quickly issue an HTTP request to a page from a command line, and it works with IIS6 and higher (yes, you can install the resource kit tools on an IIS7 machine without problems). Why would...

In this post, we’ll see some steps about how to troubleshoot a production SharePoint site using WinDBG and PssCor2.dll.  For an introduction to setting up your environment and getting started, see my blog post “ Intro to WinDBG for .NET Developers...

When your code goes into production, you usually no longer have access to its binaries when they reach their final destination.  Whether that is someone’s desktop or a set of servers, you no longer have access to directly observe your code and its...

A customer asked how they could add jQuery to every page in SharePoint. They wanted to modify core.js on the disk, but of course we all know that Microsoft does not support modifying files that reside in the _layouts folder . Of course there are supported...

I recently got a question from a customer about utilities to include on their development machines.  My view is that you should trust your developers and let them install the tools they need.  However, some devs don’t have managers who trust...

This post shows how to create content types and page layouts with Visual Studio 2010. In Part 1 , I introduced the concept of content types and page layouts using SharePoint Designer. In this post, I will show how to accomplish the same tasks with Visual...

I have been working on a customer solution and have gotten to do some fun coding this week.  As usual, I wanted to share it with you so that you can maybe learn a few new ways of working with SharePoint.  The business problem is that the business...