Ideas that work
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 »
In this series: Search Refiners part 1 – Expanding the OOTB search Refinement Panel Search Refiners part 2 – Use of CustomFilters Search Refiners part 3 – Chart based Search Refiners part 4 – User selection based (this post) After … Read More »
In this series: Search Refiners part 1 – Expanding the OOTB search Refinement Panel Search Refiners part 2 – Use of CustomFilters Search Refiners part 3 – Chart based (this post) Search Refiners part 4 – User selection based … Read More »
In SharePoint 2010 features can be upgraded, awesome! I was just testing this when I discovered something curious when updating a property. Suppose the following feature definition file: The property value of the MyProp key is “initialValue”. After adjusting the … Read More »
Recently I asked a question on Twitter on how to suppress a false positive with the SPDispose check tool and Wictor Wilén pointed me to the right direction. Several times I’m asked about the solution so I’m sharing it with you now. First … Read More »
To monitor additional items not by default set up in SharePoint, custom health analyzer rules can be defined. For example the sandboxed solutions can be monitored a little bit better than SharePoint default provides. When the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed … Read More »
CAML can be used in the Client OM to query for example a list. When the list contains a lot of items it’s not a good idea to show all the items at once. CAML supports row limits, so a … Read More »
Today I am playing around with the dialog framework and simple ribbon buttons. I want the user to select one or more items from a list and update the Status field for all the items selected. The user can edit … Read More »
Be careful with the use of GetItemById(), there are two options to use it: SPList.Items.GetItemById() SPList.GetItemById() The difference between the two is that the SPList.Items.GetItemById() loads every item into memory and then filters the set. Trust me: this can cause … Read More »
Let’s adjust the previous model to enable adding new items and edit existing ones. Open the previous project and open the design view of the model (.bdcm). In the BDC Method Details window select ‘Add a method’ and ‘Create Creator … Read More »