Ideas that work
User subtypes are one of the many new and nice things in SharePoint 2010. The other day I was editing user profiles and changed the subtype for this profile in code. After changing the user subtype Commit() was called and … Read More »
You all know by now how to delete crawled properties and that you’re not able to delete a single crawled property. When deleting crawled properties, all unmapped properties from a single category get deleted. In Central Administration select ‘Manage service … Read More »
There are two variants of ‘for each’ in PowerShell: Foreach statement: iterates over a collection of objects ForEach-Object: obtains its entries from the pipeline At first they both seemed to do the job, but there are some differences. Let’s do … Read More »
Comparison between SPHttpUtility and HTTPUtility – encoding and decoding There are different ways of encoding and decoding querystring parameters, for example by using SPHttpUtility or HttpUtility. While programming SharePoint I always tend to use the SPHttpUtility class, but I didn’t … Read More »
Document set versions are slightly different than item versions. Document sets can be managed by a separate ribbon tab called Document Set and group called Manage. To create a version of a document set the action Capture Version in this … Read More »
In PowerShell multiple Write statements are available. The two statements I want to address are Write-Host and Write-Output. What do these two do? Write-Host: Writes customized output to a host Write-Output: Sends the specified objects to the next command in … Read More »
Recently I developed a CustomAction on a list with some client script in the CommandAction. Nothing fancy or new. I put a .js file in the _layouts folder and referenced the file by a CustomAction with Location ‘ScriptLink’ and ScriptSrc. … Read More »
The article I wrote for DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine 4 now also online here: One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 is tagging. Users can tag several items within SharePoint, such as pages and list items. The tags … Read More »
Probably this is my lack of knowledge in the (sp)gridview area, but I want to share it anyway. I realized I always bound gridviews to custom objects only. Recently I wanted to bound a generic list of strings (List<string>) to … Read More »
Because of a question on http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/14325/created-connectable-webparts-but-the-connections-menu-item-is-not-showing I decided to create a provider consumer webpart in his most simple form. Create an empty SharePoint project in Visual studio. Add two Visual WebParts: ProviderVisualWebpart ConsumerVisualWebpart In this most simple form of a provider … Read More »