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SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part Continued
Categories: CQWP, Development, How To, How To Code, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010
So in the last post we looked at some of the basic Content Query Web Part functionality within SharePoint 2010. In this post we will go a little deeper and look at how items are tied together with the new tool pane UI and the XSL renderings. So fi.....
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SharePoint 2010 – Create a Visual Web Part
Categories: Development, SharePoint 2010
With the advent of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010, new Visual Studio Tools are now available to help you the developer to build solutions using SharePoint 2010 easily. In this post we will look at one of the simplest yet long awaited featu.....
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Custom User Profile Web Service
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Like most of you, you may have looked at the "UserProfileManager" web services and noticed that there is no way to get all the user profiles. I needed this functionality so I decided to create my own web service. So if you need a starter.....
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Retrieve XML from List and View and use as RSS
Categories: Development, SharePoint, Office System 2007, How To Code
In one of my last posts I looked at created a HttpHandler that would use query string parameters to retrieve the Xml of a list in SharePoint. The basis for this was to replace the use of the "owssvr.dll" method due to its security requir.....
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Retrieve XML from List and View
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
Recently I was asked if there was a way to retrieve and present XML from a list. This of course is very straight forward but the complication here was that it needed to be available to an anonymous user who would consume the XML stream. After a .....
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MOSS 2007 – Capture direct view clicks
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
If like me you have worked on a mix of intranet, extranet and internet you will have no doubt been asked about capturing direct file clicks. So an example would be you wish to know the top PDF document that is being clicked on your public facing s.....
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MOSS2007 – 302 to 301 “Pages” Redirect
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
As most of you will no doubt know, SharePoint uses 302 to redirect pages and sites to the default pages. In a good external site you would really want these to be changed to 301 redirects. What are these redirects and what do they do?Permanent 301.....
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MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 3)
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
In the last few posts we have looked at some of the Search API basics. One of the issues I mentioned earlier was that the "PublishingRollupImage" does not show itself in the search results. Using the following XSL code you can see this: .....
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MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 2)
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
In my last post we looked at some basic Search API code using our forms application. As a response to this Daniel from "Zevenseas" he has a tool, if you haven't already got it, go get it from here: http://mosssearchcoder.codeplex.com T.....
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MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 1)
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint
On a few projects recently there has been a need to use the search API. You may wonder why you would think to use the search API at all considering we have all the aggregation we need with the Content Query Web Part. I hear you and yes I understan.....
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SharePoint Designer is now free!!! Did I say free!! Yes I did.
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Everyone likes something that is free, now you can do all your customizations to SharePoint with a free product!! SharePoint Designer. Click the image below to get your copy!! .....
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BOOK REVIEW: SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to Business Data Catalog
Categories: BDC, Book Review, Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint
I have had the chance over the past couple of weeks to review a copy of Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan's book about the Business Data Catalog. It is a fantastic book covering everything from "What is the BDC" all the way to how to perform .....
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Skype Status Field for SharePoint
Categories: Development, General, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Hi, Just wanted to let you know about this pretty cool codeplex project that is available. It allows for your Skype presence information tobe available within SharePoint. You can read all about it here:   http://skypestatusfield.codeplex.com/  .....
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Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, Powershell
Recently I have been building a new Virtual Machine for some demonstrations I am doing. Normally I use a base VM, but for this one I thought I would build a new 64 bit Windows Server 2008 with everything on. However as I am building it I realised .....
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PRODUCT: {SmartAssembly} – Obfuscate my DLL’s
Categories: Development, Personal Projects, Security
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to find a product that I can use for obfuscating my code. The products range in cost and include varying features. Today I got the chance (big shout to Vince) to use {smartassembly}, you can visit the sit.....
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