I was recently working on a client requirement to download all the content of a list/document library to a file share. This script should ensure the folder structure of the document library to be replicated in the file share. ########################...

I was working on a custom solution with a client. This project has a high level of custom auditing, which means any custom feature being activated or deactivated, any solution being added/retracted etc. is logged. As part of the logging they also log...

I have seen this behaviour a number of times in our client enviornments when some of your AD accounts would show - DomainName\UserName as the display name. In most cases it is the Profile Sync job which is turned off and as a result the synchronization...

SharePoint caches the content (Could be images, etc.) in two of its system folders. The cache is composed of these 2 folders: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache In order...

I was recently working with a customer on FAST Serach Querying and they were using custom search to get results for a specific content type. They were trying to use the OOB Managed Property - ContentType. Somehow it was not returning any results. As...

I was recently working on a web part which had to copy the data in the datagrid to clip board. Servers side code tends to get messy and I found an easy way to copy to client's clip board using Javascript. <Javascript code> The javascript for...

What if Visual Studio supported achievements, just like games on Steam, Xbox or PS3? Bragging to your coworkers about which one you’ve just unlocked, imagine that! Now that has become a reality. MSDN has released an extension for Visual Studio 2010...

I found an easy way to get the list of Sites and site collections just by using search. (No Code or customization required.) Thanks Corey Roth's article - http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2012/01/13/how-to-query-site-and-site...

Just got my hands on Visual Studio 2011 Developer preview and it looks damn good. The SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview contain new designers and templates to facilitate SharePoint development, as well as new options...

I must say that SharePoint 2010 has been absolutely awesome in integrating all my office client applications - WorkSpaces, One Note files, etc. I typically have my one note files uploaded on sharepoint which I can open anywhere - Office, client location...

Content types are one of the best things to happen for SharePoint as they allow better standardization and governance of content. I was recently hit by a strange content type issue. The client had a SharePoint setup with a content type hub where he...

I was recently hounded by a client's strange issue. The client had a Publishing Site which was configured - 'Anonymous Access" - Entire web site. They have fantastic branded home page (I must say, you can't tell it is SharePoint). Anyways, they have an...

I have been working with Remote Powershell and it is amazing to use this. Just imagine I dont need SharePoint server on my box just powershell on my box and normal Powershell scripting knowledge. A typical pain can be to create a new session everytime...

I was working on a requirement to run a SP 2010 powershell script from a remote machine on network. Yes the answer is PowerShell 2.0 which uses WIN-RM for remote powershell execution. Powershell 2.0 uses the concepts of WIN-RM which involves piping the...

I was recently working on SPS 2003 issue where we wanted to redirect the user to a custom error page. In MOSS we have an elaborate process to achieve the custom error page functionality. After quite a bit of research I could find couple of ways but the...

I had a recent requirement to find out the last accessed date of the sites in the web applications on the farm. The idea was to find the sites which are rarely used and delete these sites (or archive their data). By concept I should be able to get...

I was recently working with Ajax controls in SharePoint. I created some ascx user controls and added them to the ControlTemplates folder of the 12 hive. I then dynamically loaded these controls to my web parts and everything worked fine. We did the deployment...

I was recently working on a requirement, somewhat weird (As developers would say) but made a lot of sense (As end users would say). Customer had a home page with their company logo. At some places in the home page (or better in the master page) there...

I was recently working with a client who wanted to develop Workflows using VS 2008 on a 64 bit server. After quite a bit of research we found that this was not possible by design. Possible workarounds involve adding a 32 bit server in a 64 bit farm. To...

As we know SP 2010 has introduced a way where we will now be able to implement OOPS principles for SharePoint Code. In other words we can now have an easier way to understand and implement object oriented principles in SharePoint. The short answer on...

I recently was working on a issue where customer had recently installed Feb CU 2008 and his lists started crashing. As such the list contniue to work fine, but it didnt allow editting of items. On further troubleshooting, I isolated the issue to list...

I was recently working on a customer requirement to log Search Query API calls. OOB this is easy to achieve where we have specific UI option in central admin to get this information. On discussion with the PG, we found that by design this is not supported...

Event Handlers in MOSS have come a long way since their inception in SharePoint 2003. In MOSS, event handlers expose a pair of properties which can be used for easing quite complex functionality. Yes, I am talking about the pair – AfterProperties and...

I was recently working on a PowerShell issue and found a new Graphical editor for developing PowerShell scripts. I am sure all of us know how troublesome, debugging PowerShell scripts can be. The default Windows PowerShell (Version 1.0) exposes...

I recently had a strange requirement or should I say an issue where the client had created a user control in SharePoint and was trying to use Fragment Caching on the user control. But somehow the fragment caching wasn’t working. And the client was asking...