SharePoint and office development model is changing to a new App model. This is the new development model for SharePoint. In this blog series I will walk you through creating a provider hosted SharePoint App that is hosted in an App part. This will show the following key features: ·         ...

In man occasions you would be faced by the need to move workflows you developed using SharePoint designer from one site to another. This might be the case if for example you developed and tested the workflow on a testing environment and now wants to move to the production environment without the need...

Problem Statement You have a requirement to display two list view web parts of two SharePoint lists. These two lists are linked together using a multi-valued lookup field in one of them. So for example you have a list called Companies and another called Branches and in the list of Companies you have...

Writing a custom ListDefinition is something all SharePoint developers phase more than once in a development lifecycle. With the new enhancements to the development tools for SharePoint 2010 it became actually easier to do so. But the tricky part is how to write a custom display, new and edit forms for...

Now I faced this solution many times now and for many problems that I faced so I decided that I would blog about all the issues that I faced and where solvable by this same solution. The SENS service (or the System Event Notification Service) is designed for “Applications designed for use by mobile users...

This is a small issue that I faced the other day and wasted several hours of my time. The scenario is rather simple. You have a list item and you already have an attachment to this item. What you want to do is to read this item attachment in a workflow or a web part using code. So you start off by writing...

In the previous post I showed you how to deploy the BCS model for the Employee WCF service. In this post we will continue our scenario by adding the synchronization sources for the AD and the BCS WCF service. Add the Employee IDs to the AD profile This step is needed to allow the UPS to link the AD profile...

In this post I will start talking about using the UPS and how we can use that to connect to two sources of user profiles data. Please refer to the previous post on how to configure the UPS. The Scenario So lets first describe the scenario at hand. We have user profiles data residing in two sources, one...

This is a small note. Please make sure that all servers belonging to the same farm are actually on the same time-zone. I had a very strange issue where performing any actions on a farm server would not be executed (as far as I saw it initially). I was trying to start or stop services on a server and...

The scenario is simple; what have configured people search and allowed that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. For this post I assume that the user profiles synchronization is up and running and that we...

The scenario is simple; what you want is to configure people search and allow that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. I will dedicate several posts for configuring the user profiles service and synchronization...

The scenario is that you have configured a BCS system connecting to a WCF service. Now this service is not connecting to a reliable system and you have a failover node for it. But since BCS by default will keep waiting for the service to respond you will not be able to fail to the other node. You want...

Finally I was able to edit a newly added ListViewWebPart view by code. I know there is a lot of blogs talking about this topic but I did not find one that is complete with all the bits and pieces so when I managed to do it I decided I have to put the full picture. Adding a new ListViewWebPart is...

I have been trying to develop a new custom SharePoint site definition on SharePoint 2007 that would put a discussion list view web part on the home page of the created site. Now everything seemed to be working fine and list view was added to the home page but when you try to click on any discussion link...

Hi SharePoint Developers, This is my first blog post and I am very excited about sharing my experience with you. So let’s just dive into it. I wanted to present to you a solution that I think was interesting; I had an issue in a project that we had a SharePoint site that contained several...