TechDays 9-10.3.2010 at Messukeskus is the biggest annual Microsoft technology event in Finland. This year there are two tracks of SharePoint-related content. Most of the SharePoint Blues authors will also be there. You can easily find us by looking for these shirts:

Come to meet us and give your feedback!

This time Sininen Meteoriitti has

Developers, who use customized page layouts bound with custom content type, have probably realized that if your custom content type is not the default content type of Pages library, you will not get default values populated when you create a new page. One way to work around this is to create feature, which sets your customized content type to be…

Today I had some trouble trying to filter out items by a field of type Boolean. I have a custom content type definition which has a FieldRef to a Field:

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We are also included on the Featured SharePoint Blogs of Bamboo Solutions, for example in the digest for February the 18th.

In the installation notice of SharePoint 2010 public beta, it was mentioned that:

“This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released.”

It was later clarified in more detail in a TechNet blog article by Steve Chen. The upgrade paths and the content database attach methods from pre-RTM to RTM will be prevented by technical means. Apparently Microsoft…

In an earlier post to SharePoint Blues Juho wrote about the challenge of – how to find anything from the sea of content. One way of solving this issue is to use SharePoint Enterprise Search API and the FullTextSqlQuery class. This class allows you to query SharePoint content using SQL syntax. FullTextSqlQuery queries always query from SCOPE(). In…