Kirk Evans Blog

I am in training this week with Andrew Connell (by far the best SharePoint training I have ever attended), learning about SharePoint development. As I get started with my deep dive into learning SharePoint, something that comes up a lot is the need to...

In this post, we will create a custom login page for SharePoint 2010 for use with Forms Based Authentication. Background I was working with a customer to troubleshoot problems with Forms Based Authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2010.  The first step...

See the attachment to this post for the full source code. When I first started developing with SharePoint, I wanted to learn how to do the things that I did in ASP.NET.  Many of those things easily transfer, thanks to Visual Studio 2010.  For...

I have a confession... I am a developer, a true developer. I am infrastructure illiterate, meaning I very, very, very infrequently (like maybe twice ever) install a domain controller by myself. I don't assign IP addresses, heck it's rare that I install...

If you use the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer to add a new page to your site, you will see that it looks just like any other ASP.NET page. Open up your site with the SharePoint Designer, and then go to the Pages folder. Right-click the Pages folder...

Man, I am spoiled.  I am spoiled by how simple the free edition of SQL Server 2008, SQL 2008 Express , is to set up and connect to.  I found myself needing to connect to an Oracle database this week.  I haven’t had to connect to an Oracle...

Several months ago, one of my customers asked me a fairly pointed question: how do you call web services from JavaScript? At least, that's what they asked me, but not really what they meant (I'll explain what their real question was in a subsequent post...

Steve Pietrek has a great link blog ( Steve Pietrek - Everything SharePoint and Office ) that aggregates blog postings on SharePoint and Office.  If you are at all interested in seeing what’s possible with SharePoint, I highly recommend you subscribe...

This post shows how to implement FBA claims-based authentication for SharePoint 2010.  We will use the ASP.NET membership and role provider to authenticate users to our SharePoint 2010 site. Overview SharePoint 2007 introduced the ability to use...

WCF makes it easy to call the SharePoint web services using WCF.  In this post, I’ll show how to call the Lists.asmx web service and show the few things you need to take into account. Creating the Proxy Just like if you were using ASMX web services...

This post intends to tell you everything you need to know about host named site collections so that you can decide if they are appropriate for your environment.  This post is NOT telling you to run out and create everything as host named site collections...

A question popped up on an internal email distribution list today about how to expose a WCF service using WebGet and how to post POX (plain old XML) to that service using the .NET 3.5 WebInvoke attribute. That part's easy, but the harder part is figuring...

I couldn't let it go. Tim's post had me intrigued about how to convert RSS to JSON using some of the new goodness in .NET 3.5. If you use the JavaScriptSerializer (which, unfortunately, is marked as obsolete), then your code is as simple as this: <...

This post will show you how to ensure Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" has been executed in all PowerShell windows. Background I have been doing a lot of work in PowerShell lately, and found myself frequently in the PowerShell...

Scott Guthrie posted a great example of how to create a feed reader using LINQ to XML . Today, I see Tim Heuer's post on the JavaScriptSerializer type in .NET 3.5 . So, I thought I would mash them up and show how to use LINQ to implement Tim's idea of...

I was working on a demo for a customer and needed to use ASMX web services. I crufted up my sample application, right-clicked the project node in the Solution Explorer pane, and saw that there is no "Add Web Reference" menu item there anymore. Strange...

It turns out to be pretty easy to customize the look and feel of a SharePoint site using SharePoint Designer 2007 and Internet Explorer 8.  Using IE8, you can easily find the CSS class for a particular element and modify it, and SharePoint Designer...

In my previous post, I showed how to use the DataContractSerializer with the classes generated by the LINQ to SQL designer . As a refresher, here's the service. It is a trouble ticket lookup service based on the 3 parts of a phone number (referred to...

How to transform CSV to an XML format?...

Today was the first time I realized there is a translation service in Microsoft Office Word 2003. And now I realize that the Research Pane is what makes Office 2003 (especially with SharePoint) so very cool. I was cleaning out old posts from SharpReader...

A pretty cool feature in .NET 2.0 is the ability knowingly disable a list of warnings using the #pragma directive. using System; public class foo { // Disable warnings for unused or unassigned fields #pragma warning disable 0169, 0414 // No warning...

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...

Make Sure the Audience Can Read What You Are Presenting Set Notepad.exe, Visual Studio, code in PowerPoint, the Console window, and anything else you type text into to use Lucida Console 14. Wanna show off prettified XML in the browser? Set the Text Size...

One of my coworkers, Rob Wilson, did a fantastic interview with me that will be appearing on our new Channel9 show, "Communicating" , as soon as I can get it edited, encoded, and uploaded. In exchange, he asked for some Silverlight help. I learned a few...

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...