Single Page Layout for Several Content Types
Just recently we came across a case where we needed to share a single page layout between three different content types. The visible meta data fields for all three content types were the same, and creating several identical page layouts felt wrong. Fortunately, SharePoint supports the scenario. Less fortunately, the documentation is a little sparse.
For a...
SharePoint 2010 Development Certifications – Preliminary Exam Scopes Published
There are now official Microsoft exam pages for 70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development and 70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications. Read especially the “skills measured” sections. The pages also state the exam publishing date to by July 12.
A complete list of SharePoint 2010 exams and certifications can be found on Microsoft Partner Portal.
SharePoint & Office 2010 RTM Availability Date Announced
Microsoft announced on Friday that Office & SharePoint 2010 RTM binaries will be available for SA customers starting 27th of April. Other customers can download the binaries starting 1st of May. SharePoint 2010 RTM will first be available in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch. No mention of the Finnish language pack yet.
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Using EditorParts for Dynamic/Data Driven WebPart Editors
Having worked with Sharepoint for a few months now I’ve been overwhelmed by the endless amount of XML I’ve had to type in just to package a simple feature to a deployable wsp. And also by the fact that I’m now spending significantly less time writing c# code that I’ve gotten so accustomed to working with. In fact, there seems...
Web Designer Friendly Web Parts, Take 2
We discussed an approach for creating Web Parts backed by a single user control in a previous post. While the approach works, it’s not quite perfect yet.
First, it requires repeating a bunch of boilerplate code that should be neatly abstracted away, if possible. Second, the part where the user control...
How to Extend SharePoint 2007 with .NET 3.5
There are several solutions in web that deal with this problem, but they all seem to point you to use SPWebConfigModification (like in here and here) or are just giving manual editing instructions (like in here). We feel that this is all too complex and repetitive process. There is fortunately “a better” way to...