The “PowerPivot for SharePoint” generates thumbnails for the excel uploaded.  This preview is generated only while uploading the excel files thro’ IE8.  The preview thumbnails will be not generated if the excel is uploaded using IE9.  So...

In one of my projects there was a requirement to get the unique list of members from a given DG, which may have multiple levels of nested DGs.  So, I thought of using the “System.DirectoryServices” namespace with “DirectoryEntry” & “DirectorySearcher...

Recently, when I to write a SharePoint Server Object Model code snippet to fetch some list items, I came across this exception at “new SPSite(requestUrl)” method call.  I was just wondering what could be the possible reason and after few minutes...

Very frequent at times, there is a requirement to have a view or fetch data from multiple lists as join tables.  But, since SharePoint is not designed as a relational database, this is really tough achieving.  This can be done easily using the...

  Are you tired of handling dirty characters in SharePoint such as “_x0020_, _x002f,… “ etc ?  Suppose if you know what to be done, then please ignore this post.  I was breaking my heads to find a solution for this, even without knowing...

I’ve recently used the Accordion menu in Silverlight for one of my UI.  I’m pretty much amazed with the efficiency of this control in saving lot of screen real estate and at the same time having lots of controls packed into it.  I’m posting...

Scenario: - Populating the rich text field content from SharePoint List to the InfoPath form's Rich Text field Problem: - The InfoPath form's rich text field won't recognize the contents read from SharePoint list's rich text field as valid XML...

The textbox with auto width based on the value can be obtained as follows: 1) Insert an expression box into your form 2) Set the field you want to display in this text box 3) Right-Click on expression box => Expression box Properties... =>...

There is a frequent requirement for business users to search for the documents/contents based on the custom metadata information being managed for their business documents. To facilitate the user for selecting the values for the search properties, the...

This post is about creating a custom core results web part which will render the search results similar to list view UI i.e. using grid view with pagination, context menus, & column sorting / filtering. Most of the business users demand this kind...