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...