I had a requirement from customer to develop an archival workflow solution using which they can automate the Site Collection archival based on a set of business rules. The features should be, notify users for the key LOB information expiration based on...

  Here I have mentioned the code which can be useful to get the Content DB, Site Collection Usage details.   SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local; SPWebService service = farm.Services.GetValue<SPWebService>( "" );  ...

  In this post we will look into how I did “Farm Content Size Reporting” part of the project, We have two types of reporting in this functionality. Content Databases per Web Applications Report Site Collections per Content Databases Report This can...

  Continuing from the Post 1 , Request Workload / Agent Query : SELECT AgentName, SUM (RequestCount) AS RequestsCount FROM RequestWorkload WHERE (LogTime BETWEEN GETDATE() - 10 AND GETDATE()) AND ...

  In this post, I will talk about my SharePoint Performance Dashboard Project. It has mainly two major types of reporting features, Part 1.  CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor, Top Users of the farm, Top Site Collections in the farm and many more and...

  Recently there was a need to configure Remote blob storage(RBS) in our new SharePoint 2010 farm. I had referred a few TechNet & Blog articles to configure it and there were some differences while following the steps, The purpose of this blog...

Few weeks ago I had visited a customer regarding the MOSS2007 SP2 upgrade. Their total size of the data in MOSS was in Terabytes and at the same time it was a business critical platform where multiple teams were depended on the SharePoint for their daily...

From quite some time, I was trying to find ways to customize the SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics to capture the usage of Internal SharePoint solutions. With SharePoint Web Analytics, Users will be able to find the following three categories of reports...

Recently I came across a situation in which a customer was trying to access the web applications in the farm but he was getting an exception, “System.NullReferenceException was unhandled  Message=Object reference not set an instance of an object...

It has been a long running topic since the launch of SP2010, Here is the latest post on the guidelines.

Recently I had come across a situation in which customer wanted to remove the “Open with (Windows) Explorer” button from the Document Library’s Ribbon Menu. Following are the steps to remove this button from Ribbon Create an empty SharePoint 2010 Solution...

Overview Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 contains guidance documentation, detailed examples, and a reusable class library. These resources are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices...

More details on the Silverlight Object Model, you can find here . using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Net; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Documents; using...

SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools while leveraging a rich set of out of the box features. Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint...

Recently I came across a situation in which customer had email enabled a document library and he had setup a custom workflow to start whenever any new item is added in the library. This setup was working as expected but when end-users send some higher...

One of my customers had a requirement in which Contributor users should not be allowed to access webpart menu of the webparts on the home page. Contributor users will get the webpart menu like below for all the webparts which are present on the page....

1: using System; 2: using System.Runtime.InteropServices; 3: using System.Web.UI; 4: using System.Web.UI.WebControls; 5: using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; 6: using System.Xml.Serialization; 7:   8: using...

1: using (SPSite site = new SPSite( "http://ms10:200/sites/200" )) 2: { 3: using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) 4: { 5: SPList lib1 = (SPDocumentLibrary)web.Lists[ "Documents" ]; 6: SPList lib2 = (SPDocumentLibrary...

The requirement to write this code was, After export/import, workflow modification for approvers was failing. Approvers were not able to perform the Approval workflow operations and then we tested that if we create a new Tasks list and modify the existing...

Here the users will send emails with subject “DiscussionTitle [Discussion ID]” format. If there is a discussion thread present with specified “[Discussion ID]” then it will add the incoming email as a reply in that thread. If ID is not supplied and if...

1: using (SPSite site = new SPSite( "http://ms9:105" )) 2: { 3: using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) 4: { 5: SPList list = web.Lists[ "Shared Documents" ]; 6: 7: foreach (SPContentType con in list.ContentTypes...

1: private void Download() 2: { 3: string siteUrl = txtSite.Text.ToString(); 4: string source = txtDocLib.Text.ToString(); 5: string downloadPath= txtDownload.Text.ToString(); 6: byte [] vContent = null; 7: int count = 1;...

It iterates through a whole site collection and wherever the list with name “test” it finds, It will do the changes. 1: using System; 2: using System.Collections.Generic; 3: using System.Text; 4: using Microsoft.SharePoint; 5:  ...

This is a code sample to copy all of the text from the “col1” column to “col2” column. To note again, “col1” is an "append changes" column so the previous edits of the comments field are stored in previous versions of the list item. 1: using...

[1] 1: WS.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(userName, password, domain); If you want to pass explicit credentials and filter the record after that.   [2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813834 1...