Doug Ware

Meta: Attributes in Page Layouts Provisioned by Features are Unghosted (Customized)

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:53:19 GMT

Body: One of my clients was having an issue where solution upgrade or redeployment didn't change certain page layouts. I checked the CustomizedPageStatus property of the affected layouts and it said they are customized. However, they had not actually...(read more)

Monkey Patching and SharePoint / Office 365

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:03:00 GMT

Body: This post is a prelude for the one to follow in which I will show an application of this technique that overrides the workspace sizing routine in SharePoint 2010. JavaScript is a wonderful language. It is easily accessible to anyone who understands...(read more)

I am a SharePoint Server MVP!

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Using the People Picker Control in Sandbox Solutions / Office 365

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:09:00 GMT

Body: The SharePoint sandbox does not allow you to use the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls namespace in your code. This means you can't instantiate objects from classes in that namespace or automate existing object instances of classes in that namespace...(read more)

jQuery Plugin to Display SharePoint 2010 List Views

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:39:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip: Debugging Feature Event Receivers in SharePoint Sandbox Solutions

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:39:00 GMT

Body: I accidently discovered this yesterday and thought I'd share. If only this same technique worked with farm solutions… If you've done any sandbox development you have probably had many moments when you pressed F5 to start debugging...(read more)

Hiding a SharePoint Ribbon Button with CSS

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:17:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Office 365/SharePoint Sandbox Service Pages in Action – Autocomplete Text Boxes

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How Office 365 Made Me Hate My Windows 7 Phone

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:44:20 GMT

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,...(read more)

Unorthodox Architecture for Services in SharePoint Sandbox Solutions and Office 365

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Screen Scraped Authentication to Office 365 and SharePoint Online

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:25:37 GMT

Body: Way back in April, Microsoft published a very good article by Robert Bogue entitled Remote Authentication in SharePoint Online Using Claims-Based Authentication . This article describes one way to get the FedAuth cookie required to talk to SharePoint...(read more)

SharePoint Security and the Object Model – Part 3

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:52:33 GMT

Body: Authorization and Access Control – Evaluating Permissions This is the third part of a three part post on security object model basics in SharePoint. The other posts are: SharePoint Security and the Object Model – Part 1 and SharePoint Security and...(read more)

Serialization in Sandbox Solutions

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:06:38 GMT

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...(read more)

Creating List Indexes with the SharePoint Object Model

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:18:55 GMT

Body: Many scenarios in SharePoint 2010 require you to create indexes on lists – e.g. enforcing unique values, CAML joins, and referential integrity. I was writing some code yesterday that needed an index and I wasn't able to find a sample – so I...(read more)

Atlanta Code Camp 2011–June 25

Elumenotion Blog: Posts — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:32:08 GMT

Body: At long last, we're happy to announce the 2011 edition of the Atlanta Code Camp which will be held at the Southern Polytechnic State University . Event Details Call for Speakers: click here Registration: click here Date: Saturday, June 25 th...(read more)