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I'll be attending at the Dutch Microsoft DevDays: how to make debugging/testing easy following the SharePoint Guidance

2010-03-03T12:39:00Z

Yesterday I was asked if I wanted to held a session at the Microsoft DevDays in the netherlands. Of course I said yes :D. There was a gap and wanted me to fill it. The session will be about how to make use of design patterns like MVP, Repositories and ServiceLocators to be able to test/debug all of your code without deploying. This deployment is often one of the delaying factor's when developing for SharePoint. After this session, I will write a more advanced blogpost on how to effectively reduce...(read more)

Removing My Profile menu items from the QuickLaunch menu on your MySite

2010-02-02T15:22:00Z

A few days ago I ran into a problem, because I had to alter the QuickLaunch menu for the mySites. Easy as Pie, I thought. I wrote a Feature that was able to add or delete nodes based on it's link name: When using titles there could be a problem when using localized links. The code looks a bit like this: (please note that the Add/delete cases are not included in this example) SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = SPContext .Current.Web.Navigation.QuickLanuch; foreach ( SPNavigationNode node in nodes...(read more)

Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta

2009-10-20T16:41:00Z

Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Please review the preliminary system requirements to prepare for the beta release. For a comprehensive list of readiness resources and the right steps to take today, check out SharePoint 2010 Get Ready. Click HERE to sign up...(read more)

SP2010; Browser - compatibility overview

2009-10-19T17:57:00Z

Fully compatible: Internet Explorer 7 32-bit Internet Explorer 8 32-bit Firefox 3.x 32-bit not fully compatible (but you can use it normally) internet Explorer 7 64-bit Internet Explorer 8 64-bit Firefox 3.x on non-windows operating system Safari 3.x Please note that Internet Explorer 6 is NOT supported anymore. Silverlight installed is a pré ;)...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 information

2009-10-19T16:42:00Z

This is just a small roundup of the information provided by our friend steve: Public beta of workspace, office and SharePoint 2010 will be available in november. No date specified SharePoint 2010 will ship in Q1 or Q2 of 2010 SharePoint 2010 runs on vista and windows 7 for developers visual interface for creating webparts greatly simplified deployment from VS2010 pump log info into a database into a file SharePoint Online is SharePoint in the cloud 2 way communication with the new BDC SMS service...(read more)

6 ways to Speed up stsadm

2009-10-08T07:33:00Z

As an addition to my previous post, I found a blogpost where I found numerous other options to speed up the stsadm process. Symptoms for STSADM: You start STSADM without any parameters There is a delay of about 30 seconds While you are waiting, and tearing your hair out because your deployment script has about 60 STSADM commands, there is no CPU activity, swapping or significant network traffic. Symptoms for SharePoint sites: You make the first request of the day, or the first request after recycling...(read more)

Speeding up stsadm

2009-09-28T08:16:00Z

When STSADM executes, it tries to load strong named assemblies which need to be verified against an authentication provider. When your client has bad or no network access, it waits for a timeout before continuing, which makes the stsadm command very slow. To pass by this process, edit your machine.config and add: <configuration> <runtime> <generatePublisherEvidence enabled=”false”/> </runtime> </configuration> This should do the trick....(read more)

CrossListQueryInfo not able to return MultiLookup Fields

2009-08-14T13:49:00Z

Some time ago I wrote a blogpost about how to use the CrossListQueryInfo and CrossListQueryCache to be able to find any item within a site within a very small amount of time. Hower, since today I know that this method cant be used when you are trying to retrieve items that contain a MultiLookupField in the ViewFields. I came accross this limitation when I accidentally changed a LookupField into a MultiLookupField. Suddenly, my webpart that made use of the CLQI didn't return any items anymore...(read more)

Moss: Migrating and Merging User Accounts to another domain.

2009-08-05T12:15:00Z

Some time ago, the company that I work for, merged with another company and one of the issues that we still have, is that the users of both companies till reside in different domains. At the moment, we have a SharePoint Intranet which is accessible for both domains, lets say domain domA and domB. Since the merge of the two companies, about 1000 users aqcuired accounts in both domains, for some reason. At the moment, some project is going on which is going to merge all the users of domA to domB, which...(read more)

SharePoint - Retrieving login name from SPUserField in a list

2009-07-17T10:41:00Z

For a long time I didnt know how to retrieve a login name from a SPUser field in a SharePoint List. When a user doesn't have a userProfile, he is stored in the SPUser field as <number>;#<Domain\loginName>, and when he does have a profile, his name is stored as <number>;#<name of user>. That number doesn't represent the ID in the User Profile Provider, so it wasn't possible to use that ID to retrieve the login name (or other user information). Today, I accidentally...(read more)

SharePoint 2010, I am impressed!

2009-07-15T20:34:00Z

Today we finally got acces to the SharePoint 2010(twenty - ten) sneak peak site, with 3 video's included which gives us a sneak peak to SharePoint 2010. And i must say, I amself really impressed! It's better for the business, who thought we could update items acquired via a webservice as it was a SharePoint List?, the Ribbon is introduced, it's better working for admins, with the new logging and admin options, visual upgrades to SP2010 and for myself, i think it's a heaven for developers...(read more)

Customizing MOSS Search - Part 2: Modifying the default Moss Search box, remove the contextual (this site) scope and modify the OSSSearchResults.aspx reference

2009-06-22T18:25:00Z

When you want to customize the default WSS Search box, this isn't too hard. It ships into the ContentLightUp feature, which contains a feature.xml and a searcharea.xml. In that searcharea.xml a reference to the searcharea.asxc exists. Because SharePoint works with delegates with searchboxes, all you need to do is copy that feature, modify its guid, lower the sequence (so that control will be loaded) and change the reference to your CustomWSSsearcharea.ascx. <Control Id="SmallSearchInputBox"...(read more)

Customizing MOSS Search - Part 1

2009-06-18T07:05:00Z

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 are using the same search engine. It only differs in the options that are available to each of the products. As expected, MOSS 2007 has a lot more functionality then WSS 3.0. Where WSS 3.0 is only able to use contextual search (as in: this site, this list), MOSS 2007 can be configurated to search in the whole farm (content sources), to search for certain type of results (defined in scopes), scheduling the crawl and property management (search on metadata). Content Sources are...(read more)

SharePoint extensions library v2.0 released

2009-06-01T10:33:00Z

Today, Keith Dahlby and Wictor Wilén released v2.0 of the sharepoint extensions library, which contains some really helpful functions for sharepoint development. Please take a look at http://solutionizing.net/2009/06/01/spexlib-release-these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things/ for a post with some personal favorite functions of keith. Thanks guys, for sharing this with us!...(read more)

SharePoint: Modifying the PeopleResults.aspx - adding custom Profile Properties

2009-05-28T12:41:00Z

To modify the results of the peopleresults.aspx, a few stepts have to be taken. In my case, a Division is added to the results. at first, make sure that the property that you want to display, is indexed so it will be part of the People Search Scope: Go http://MOSS2007/ssp/admin/_layouts/MgrProperty.aspx and select or add the UserProfileProperty that you want to be part of the search result. Check the indexed box. Open your own userprofile, and add some data in the field. After this, start a new full...(read more)