So, you have successfully deployed User Profile Service and Mysite with SharePoint 2010. Now, the question is how to populate the users’ profile photo. The general expectation around SharePoint 2010 is each user will upload their individual profile...

One of the special features SharePoint 2010 introduced is an option to implement multiple authentication sources on the same web application. This is applicable if you are using Claim based authentication.That means you can use any/all of the following...

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Recently I received a request to prepare a sample code that can produce user presence from OCS server. Users can change their state as “Away” or “Busy” when in reality they are very much available. OCS tracks this in backend DB...

I went through Steve Peschka’s blog explaining how to set up FBA with LDAP provider in SharePoint 2010: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2009/11/05/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx . What a wonderful...

Unified Communication gives you option to configure your PBAX with OCS Server and Communicator. This way you can receive incoming calls using Communicator and it shows a balloon with the incoming phone no. Recently I receive a request to deliver a sample...

It’s quite easy to find the SharePoint groups each user is member of by object model. SPUser.Groups will give you the collection of groups the user is member of. But if this user is a member of an AD group and that AD group is added as a member of the...

Its easier to implement a custom WCF service application for SharePoint 2010. At least its no longer required to create HTTP Module to make SharePoint understand what to do with a file with .svc extension, as we used to do with SharePoint 2007. I recorded...

If you are using standard stsadm backup and restore process, you must have seen keywords and best bets do not carry forward with the backup content. The reason is simple, although you configure keywords and best bets at the site collection level, but...

Have you ever tried implementing Live ID Authentication into your asp.net web application? Well, it is not same as old Passport Authentication. From IIS 7 onwards we do not have option to implement Passport authentication. In place of it we have a Live...

We can achieve this by creating an ItemAdded event receiver. To extract the metadata values from Excel cells, we need OpenXML. In my case, I used a solution called ExcelPackage from CodePlex ( http://www.codeplex.com/ExcelPackage/ ). I modified the source...

Usage report in MOSS 2007 gives you somewhat fare information about site usage. But if you need customized report to satisfy your specific requirement, then there is hardly any option to extend or customize those reports. For example I want usage reports...

I used OpenXML to add the two metadata column values - document name as the header and modified date as footer while someone upload a document in document library. Please include a reference of WindowsBase and DocumentFormat.OpenXml in the project. WindowsBase...

I saw a nice post in CodeProject ( http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/CaptchaImage.aspx ) regarding CAPTCHA image control. I used the same code to create a Custom Field that will work like a CAPTCHA field for SharePoint. I tested it with Custom List...

One of my friend and colleague asked me this question. I found it tricky and a good post for my blog. Here is what you have to do: Go to your 12 hive\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 folder. Open up the Core.js file. Find the function AddSendSubMenu. Go to the...

Requirement: I have a custom desktop application and I have created an installer for it. During installation it needs to connect trough Internet to receive the key. Now I have stored these keys in a SharePoint List as given below: The user will...

Office 2007 has an option to convert different types of Documents into PDF or XPS. You can download the add-in from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en You...

Requirement: This is an enhancement of the List Definition project we have created in previous post ( SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) – How to add a new column in Discussion Board showing the Latest Thread for each Discussion – Step by Step ). The new requirement...

Step 1: Start VS 2008 and select Visual C# > SharePoint. Select List Definition as the project template. Rename the project as CustomDiscussionBoard and click OK. In the List Definition Setting dialog box click OK. Step 2: In the solution...

Since my post “ Adding user control to SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) Web Part and handling events in there ” I got great response and several feedbacks. I am adding a new step by step process using VS 2008 (VSeWSS 1.2). I have also used properties for the...

Project Requirement: Contoso Inc. is a BPO organization working on Medical Transcription. Information workers listen to the voice recordings and create text files based on those recordings. 3 Text files (test.txt, test2.txt, test3.txt) are given as...

This is the first non-SharePoint blog post I am writing J . I am writing because this is interesting and it seems lots of people faced or facing similar issues. If you are storing images in Access DB table as OLE object, and you are adding images programmatically...

I was eagerly waiting for the release of VSeWSS version 1.2 for VS 2008. Without it developing custom SharePoint applications in VS 2008 was like nightmare. Let us explore it by creating connected web parts. This time we will create connected Web Parts...

Requirement: I have an existing content management solution where I store the content of the user generated pages in database (in my case SQL Server). Here is a snapshot of the table where the contents of those pages are stored: I have created...