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Body: The last couple of months have been extremely busy for me; a demanding client, Cub Scout den leader activities, user group stuff, and life in general! The best proof of this? I was awarded the MVP award for SharePoint Server while on a Cub Scout camping trip at the beginning of October and I am just now blogging about it. Not a good way to start…...
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Body: I'm working on a new line of products for SharePoint Online / Office 365. A few of the pages need to display list views whose locations are unknown at design time – the lists are created on the fly and can have any title and a single page displays a view based on what the user chooses. This means that I can't use a data view Web Part because...
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Body: I spent far too long this morning trying to hide a single ribbon button on a single page. The page is part of a sandbox solution so I couldn't do the work server side, and because the page was a one-off in a library I didn't want to use a HideCustomAction. My first attempt was CSS, but that didn't work. I assumed (incorrectly) that the reason...
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Body: A couple weeks ago I wrote about an Unorthodox Architecture for Services in SharePoint Sandbox Solutions and Office 365 . This post is about an application of this architecture to create an autocomplete text box using jQuery UI. An autocomplete field looks like this: It is a great alternative to the stock lookup field UI when the source list of the lookup...
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Body: I had a hard time deciding on a title for this post. The experience I am going through is just ridiculous on so many levels and there is a lot of hate to go around. SharePoint Online in Office 365 uses claims based authentication which is cool, and it supports federated authentication and trust to let you use your corporate credentials which is even cooler...
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Body: These days we are spending a lot of time on a series of sandbox applications that will run on Office 365. If you are a follower of this blog you know I was more than a bit disappointed in the restrictions the SharePoint 2010 sandbox implementation imposes. However, if you want to play in the sandbox, you can either just say no to requirements that aren't...
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Body: If you have the pleasure of writing sandbox solutions, perhaps for Office365, you know that doing so involves a wide variety of creative workarounds. Serialization is one area where this creativity comes into play. The problem with the XMLSerializer is that it creates and loads a serialization assembly on the fly. This doesn't work in the sandbox. A...
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Body: One of my clients has a project that includes claims based authentication with a custom identity provider (IP-STS). This part of the project has been helped by the fact that the documentation gets better each month – sometimes it seems as if the question we have was documented a few days before we needed to ask it! There is a lot of documentation...
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Body: Earlier today I was surprised to discover that the Enable-SPSessionStateService cmdlet and the associated service are not included in SharePoint Foundation. This is unfortunate because I have some bits that need session and they need to run on SPF as well as SharePoint Server. I found this post that describes a method for enabling Session on the MSDN forums...
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Body: This post started out as a short reply to a discussion on LinkedIn about this post: Why there is a shortage of SharePoint Experts . Once I hit the fourth paragraph I decided it made a better blog post then a comment. :) There is a shortage of SharePoint experts because the learning curve for the base technologies is large and the learning curve for the...
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Body: On Sunday I'm flying to Minneapolis to film the first SharePoint 2010 video for AppDev . The course is entitled Exploring SharePoint 2010 and it's as complete an overview of the 2010 stack as I could reasonably fit into 10 hours. Amazingly, SharePoint 2010 is such a deep and wide platform that there are some very interesting and exciting features...
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Body: Sometimes you may do some serious customization to a list's forms and build related business logic that precludes the use of the 'Edit in Datasheet' feature that comes with every list. Unfortunately, there isn't an 'Allow Edit in Datasheet' checkbox anywhere on the List Settings page. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to handle...
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Body: One thing we like to do on most of our projects is create a version control and deployment system that allows us to keep everyone on the team in sync. This is important because almost every team will have several people who are contributing content, design elements, and requirements who are not developers, in fact these people usually account for the majority...
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Body: I just got done with a Live Learning Web cast for AppDev on User Profiles and My Sites and it's hard to imagine how it could possibly have been worse. I had serious machine issues for the first 30 minutes and couldn't get my profile import configuration to save. I kept getting an error message about connecting to the database on the profile configuration...
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Body: At the second meeting of the new Atlanta SharePoint User Group , Dan Attis spoke on SharePoint development environments. His talk reminded me that I have meant for some time now to post a series about specific techniques that I use to make life as a SharePoint developer more productive. This post is the first in a series and it covers the subject of project...
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