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SharePoint 2010 Resource File Deployment Done Easy

Deployment of resource files with SharePoint has always been a little tricky. With MOSS we used features to provision resource files. With SharePoint 2010 it was a little easier but not enough. There are blogs with some ideas how to make it easier to deploy resources in multiple locations here, here and here....

Blog Site in Anonymous Use

Anonymous user cannot enter a blog entry in a SharePoint site if ViewFormPagesLockDown feature is active at site collection level and ViewFormPagesLockDown feature is active if site collection is based on publishing portal. After googling we came accross plenty of resources considering this matter: Lockdown Mode in SharePoint 2010 Anonymous access for blog sites not working in...

Four Levels of Branding

I want to open up the branding process of a SharePoint 2010 site from a designers perspective. Let’s face it, branding is expensive. Branding takes hours of hard work and with a product like SharePoint, frustration is constantly in the air. I present the idea of using the 80/20, or Pareto Principle on...

SharePoint Security and Permission System Overview

SharePoint Permission and Security Mechanisms From time to time, our customers ask us about how SharePoint security and permission features work, and how should they be utilized. In this post we try to walk through the basic permission and security features of SharePoint. This post is not intended to be a complete description of every security and permission related feature in SharePoint,...

SharePoint 2010 – Ajax Panel in Web Part’s Editor Part

Have you ever wanted to have conditional property setting possibilities in your custom web parts? I have. The scenario has been that I would have wanted to render a control to web part property setting based on some other property selection – i.e. if user selects something from web part’s properties, something else would emerge to be selected from...

SharePoint Server 2010 Finnish Language Pack Now Available

Good news for our Finnish colleagues: the Finnish language pack is finally available. It can be downloaded from MS download site, and TechNet has the required instructions for the installation. Also note that according to thatTechNet page: “SharePoint Foundation 2010 language packs are not required for SharePoint Server 2010.” Happy site creation!

Using Control Adapter to Set Default Values for Publishing Pages

February 24 2010 90 comments

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...

CAML and Querying Boolean Fields

February 22 2010 20 comments

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:

<Field
Type="Boolean"
DisplayName="IsHeadlineDisplayName"
Description="IsHeadlineDescription"
Required="TRUE"

...

Follow us on Facebook & Twitter

February 19 2010 One comment

For all the social media addicts: you can now follow us on Facebook on our brand new fan page. We also tweet our posts in Twitter.

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

Upgrade Path from SharePoint 2010 Beta/RC to RTM is Blocked

February 17 2010 23 comments

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...

Content Queries Using SharePoint Enterprise Search API

February 15 2010 74 comments

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...

Three Cases of List Manipulations in Recent Real Life Cases

February 12 2010 3 comments

Case 1: AllowDeletion

There might be a case where you have custom document libraries in your SharePoint-solution bound to a customer specific custom content type. It might be confusing for the customer to have the default libraries, which come when the Office SharePoint Server Publishing feature has been activated.

“Some user will at some point inevitably put...

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