A client of mine recently had a request to prevent users from opening a document library in Explorer view.  After some time and research it turns out that the Explorer view leverages WebDav to do its thing.  This presented a problem, ...

  My customer recently ran into and issue with their newly installed SharePoint 2010 Server farm.  The farm is installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008.  As for the SharePoint Servers we had SP1 and the June 2011 CU installed...

  Self Service Site Creation is a feature that has been part of SharePoint Technologies for a while now.  There are many organizations however that are afraid to enable this because they do not realize this service can be limited to only authorized...

  I was forwarded the following information regarding teaching your kids and/or yourself programming and thought I’d pass it along.  Great timing if you are looking to give your kids something to do and don’t want to send them to camp. ...

I recently had a situation where we were installing SharePoint 2010 SP1 update in our SharePoint Farm.  The installation began fine and we were able to install on the first server with no issues.  When we began the update on the second and third...

Today marks the release of SharePoint 2010 SP1. You can find the update here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26623 .  For details on this release and the fixes it contains checkout http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details...

Recently I had to privilege of completing my first Windows Phone 7 application and was looking for  a great way to monetize my application which I planned to publish for free.  After all it is nice to be able to freely develop applications and...

So Windows Phone hits the market and like any curious .Net developer the platform catches my eye.  Of course it is built on .Net and yet another technology I’ve been waiting to find a reason to learn, Silverlight.  So like any other curious...

  One of the common mistakes that I see regularly when architecting SharePoint Farms 2007 or 2010 is the fact that there is only ever 1 server in the farm that has the Central Administration site configured.  In these situations you have just...

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One of the things that inevitably gets many developers when writing code is a misspelled word or name of a method, property, function, event, etc.  Correctly spelling “review”  in your code or any other words which are commonly misspelled due...

So I had an interesting question come my way today.  We were looking for a way to programmatically update the values for the “Search Settings” which are found in the “Site Settings” of the site collection.  There is no API to do this and come...

One of the pretty common things you might need to do in a SharePoint application is to send an email.  Since SharePoint has SMTP already configured this becomes pretty simple via the leveraging of the SharePoint Utilities API.  These utility...

I recently had the pleasure of writing a SharePoint workflow and leveraging the SPMetal Tool to generate some classes for my lists and content types for which the workflow would run against.  SPMetal, if you a have not played with it, is a very cool...

  Below is a listing of the out of the box SharePoint List Template Ids.  Happy Coding! 1200 Administrator tasks list 104 Announcements list 303 Blog Categories list 302 Blog Comments list 301 Blog Posts list 105 Contacts list 120 Custom grid...

I ran into this issue a couple times now and figured I’d write down the “workaround”.  I say workaround as this is not a real fix as from my understanding a bug has been filed and the product group(s) are working on a resolution.  The KB article...

As another day in the life of SharePoint goes, I found my self in a bit of a pickle. I had built a workflow and wanted to use InfoPath to display the form for each of my tasks in the workflow. I started with the guidance on MSDN with the Walkthrough of...

I was recently working with a customer looking to create an enterprise library solution which enabled their developers to search the SharePoint enterprise User Profile Service Application.  This endeavor brought us to the UserProfileManager.Search...

Occasionally during development you create a web part that causes a catastrophic error on your page and you need to remove this web part.  Given the custom and often generic error messages from SharePoint it is sometimes hard to decided what to do...

I had the pleasure recently of creating a custom web part which had to live inside a sandbox solution for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 Sandbox solutions are great in enterprise environments when the resources are shared and the farm is locked down...

I have had the opportunity to work on many a SharePoint development projects.  One of the issues that comes up when developing custom workflows with SharePoint workflows is, “How do I update my custom workflow once the original version has been deployed...

I was recently asked a question regarding when should one consider creating a custom web part vs. just creating an InfoPath form.  As much as I love writing code it is my experience that whenever I don’t have to write code and can use some other...

So in my latest adventures I was tasked with creating a form that had 1 text box and a button that made a query once entered. Straight forward enough right? No problem in no time the form was created and the page submitted the query and returned the results...

So after many months of procrastinating I finally decided to learn LINQ.  When I first heard about LINQ I did not really see it’s true potential and the book I was reading at the time was teaching at a very deep level of the technology and the C#...

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Well Day One was a great introduction and overview of some of the things to come and I am looking forward to jumping right in.  Day 2 consisted of all breakout sessions.  Advanced Web Part Development During the...