Recently, I got into issues with using feature upgrade mechanism for adding a new field to a content type. We have been using AddContentTypeField Element inside UpgradeActions Element successfully for some releases and it was adding new content type fields...

Many times we come across the question that what site template we should use for a particular required. Whether we can use out-of-the-box template or do we need to create a custom site template? We can answer these questions only when we know about all...

If you have used My Sites in SharePoint 2010, you would have seen the new Note Board web part. The Note Board web part is a generic web part and can be used in other sites also such as publishing portals, team sites etc. It enables users to leave short...

Media Web Part (MWP) is new Silverlight based web part that can be used to play videos and audios. As it’s a new web part, there have been many doubts/questions around this web part. I plan to clear those doubts in this post using a Frequently Asked Questions...

Update on 2-Oct-2010 Last year I had written a post on SharePoint 2007 Performance Testing that had a consolidated list of various types of resources available for performing load or performance testing on SharePoint 2007. Now, as the SharePoint 2010...

Recently, I got a request from one of my friend who had never worked on SharePoint to provide him resources to quickly get on speed with SharePoint. It was really tough to tell about SharePoint technologies (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007), which is such huge...

Many times, I get question from my customers if they should build a new application in SharePoint or ASP.net. For certain kind of applications such as Collaboration or KM Portal, Internet facing web site, intranet social networking site, applications...

Update (7-Jul-2010) I have created another post on similar lines of this post for SharePoint 2010. One thing to note is that many tools that you were using earlier such as VSTS, Fiddler, HttpWatch – they would remain same even in 2010. However, what would...

Have you come across a situation, where you get a URL and you need to identify what object type is this: SPSite, SPWeb, SPList, SPFolder, SPListItem or SPFile? I faced this multiple times. Recently, I was working on custom content deployment utility....

Have you faced the issue of getting limited to 255 characters when working with your custom field controls? Especially, when you are inheriting from a field such as SPFieldMultiColumn! When you save an item having custom field control with more than 255...

If you are developing a custom result page, some of the key requirements (in addition to showing relevant results) that are common across many types of projects are: Showing the total number of search results based on the submitted keyword or query...

Recently, while working on a WCM project, I realized that many developers don't know that various properties of a list item (especially document library) are inter dependent and may change based on each other's values. These properties are: Moderation...

I've been working on implementing accessibility requirements for a public facing site on MOSS. Though keywords such as "SharePoint accessibility" provide a number of results on Live Search or any other engine, I had difficult time in searching the appropriate...

It's been a long time (almost 18 months) since I blogged last time ... and there's been a lot of changes in this time. The key changes are: I've moved from HP to Microsoft My focus has moved from VSTS to SharePoint My blog has changed from...