In 2008 I’ve released a Web Part, which enables your users to access files on your fileservers through SharePoint. Original post. This Web Part has been downloaded many times. With this new version, I’ve tried to deal with the most asked questions (like Kerberos), which will make the Web Part easier to use. Naturally new features have been implemented, to get you to upgrade to the new version.
With this release, the Web Part requires SharePoint Foundation / Server 2010.
I’ve made a small update to the My Alerts Webpart.
The update improves SharePoint 2010 support.
A long time ago, I posted a program which will hit all your sites. With parameters you can specify to hit all sites within a sitecollection.
This program has been updated. You can not omit a start Url, and specify “Farm” as parameter. This way, all sites in all sitecollections in all webapplications in all… 🙂 will be warmed up.
The warmup will use a HttpRequest to query all homepages.
One of the first things I used to tell guys new to SharePoint development is: Never ever name the folder of your feature “Feature1”. If you create a solution with WSPBuilder, or did some time ago with VS 2008, you have to rename the folders immediately!
This is how a typical SharePoint project looks like, if you create features. I guess most of us have used the mighty WSPBuilder ( http://wspbuilder.
Here is another “watch out” for using the SharePoint object model.
SPUrlUtility.CombineUrl(web.Url, string.Empty) The line above will throw an exception, as CombinUrl doesn’t like empty strings. 🙂
Recently I was trying to fetch a SPField from a SPWeb object. I had SharePoint 2010, so I decided to use the new SPFieldCollection.TryGetFieldByStaticName() Method.
You can imagine how surprised I was, that I couldn’t get the field I was looking for. What do we learn? Well, the StaticName of an SPField is not necessarily the InternalName!
Here is a link to the MSDN about SPField.StaticName: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfield.staticname.aspx
If you don’t know ContentTypeBindings, take a short look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543598.aspx
“Content type binding enables you to provision a content type on a list defined in the onet.xml schema.”
So we can assign content types to newly created lists. That’s cool 🙂 The ContentTypeBinding feature can, of coarse, contain multiple content types which are bound to multiple lists. Like this:
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <ContentTypeBinding ContentTypeId="0x0100yourGuid" ListUrl="Pages" /> <ContentTypeBinding ContentTypeId="0x0100anotherGuid" ListUrl="Pages" /> <ContentTypeBinding ContentTypeId="
By now, you probably know that the modal framework from SharePoint 2010 is a great thing 🙂
In case you need to find out if the context is within a modal dialog, you can query for the URL parameter “IsDlg”.
if (Page.Request["IsDlg"] != null) { // within a modal dialog } else { // not within a modal dialog }
What is it? Usually the size of the recycle bin is not relevant. But on development machines, you don’t want lots of files in there, which make your databases grow without actually used data.
What do you do? Go to the recycle bin, click on “Site Collection Recycle Bin”. The two stages of the recycle bin can be managed independently.
The two views on the left let you switch between the first- and second stage.
I’ve updated my tool to set the masterpage on SharePoint webs and subwebs to the same masterpage.
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