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A nice part of document libraries and lists is the version history. Nothing new, we had it in MOSS 2007, but I previously never dived really into the version history by code. Recently I did and discovered something that might … Read More »
Because a sandboxed solution is completely isolated to its site collection only a subset of the Microsoft.SharePoint object model can be used. Only objects that operate within the current site collection are available to you, when you are building a … Read More »
When trying to add SharePoint.dll reference to a Windows Forms application in Visual Studio 2010 make sure you set the target framework to a non client profile. If you don’t you’ll get the error message: The type or namespace name … Read More »
What is SharePoint? Found a great movie on YouTube: SharePoint in Plain English. I do like much of the ‘.. in Plain English’ movies! On the DNA project at FrieslandCampina we even made our own: ‘DNA in Plain English’. We … Read More »
Sandboxed solutions are deployed to the database. This means that no files within the sandboxed solution will ever touch the file system of the server. Even dlls, xml files and aspx pages will be deployed to the database. In Central … Read More »
Accessing a SharePoint list with the jQuery SPServices is very cool and neat! But I just discovered an issue with it: Sometimes you get a message: ‘SPServices’ is null or not an object. Make sure you reference the ‘base’ jquery … Read More »
Lookup values are internally referenced as a combination of ID(int) and field value(string) in the following format: 1;#FirstItem. The class offered by SharePoint for lookup values is SPFieldLookupValue. The method SPFieldLookupValue takes 1 or 2 values: “1;#FirstItem” (string) lookupId and … Read More »
The Developer Dashboard is great to see what’s going on when loading a page in SharePoint 2010. Windows PowerShell is THE application to enable/disable the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010. Here are the commands: $service=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.DeveloperDashBoardSettings; $service.DisplayLevel = “On”; $service.Update(); The … Read More »
Web analytics in SharePoint 2010 has improved a lot in comparison with the Site Usage Statistics in SharePoint 2007! View report in Central Administration Central Administration, Monitoring, Reporting, View Web Analytics report. In the next screen select the web application … Read More »
In SharePoint 2010 the rating icons are default displayed as stars: Of course these can be changed: with SharePoint Designer, but better with a feature. There are four images used to display the ratings: 2 images for displaying rating: … Read More »