SharePoint 2010, Favorites Icons (FavIcons) and SPUrl (SPUrlExpressionBuilder)
Time to burst another popular misconception. SharePoint 2010 comes with a new server tag to help you set a Favourite Icon (FavIcon) for pages in your site. This is the <SharePoint:SPShortCutIcon>...
View ArticleEvent Receivers and Content Deployment Jobs
SharePoint 2010 has many wonderful improvements over previous versions. One of which is a vastly improved Content Deployment mechanism and API. If your application makes use of Event Receivers or...
View ArticleFree SharePoint 2010 Development 70-573 Practice Tests
I’ve finally created some practice tests of my own. I’ve built an exam of 40 questions in a similar style to those from Microsoft 70-573 “TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development”. These...
View ArticleWant SharePoint 2010 Developer Questions for Free?
I’ve created a set of (currently) 43 exam questions in an online practice paper that simulates the 70-573 exam – SharePoint 2010 Application Development. These questions are all original – and a lot of...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Base Types, List Template and Definition IDs, and Content...
I’m often asked for a list of the IDs of the most common Base Types, List Definitions and Content Types. Especially useful if you’re writing CAML definitions of Lists, List Instances, or Content Types....
View ArticleEmbedding Resources in Sandbox Solutions
Take One – On Premise SharePoint 2010 When you’re deploying User Code / Sandbox Solutions to the SharePoint 2010 Solution Gallery you may want to include things you’d usually distribute in files under...
View ArticleEnabling IntelliSense for the JavaScript Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010
If you’re creating or editing a JavaScript file in Visual Studio and you would like some help creating Client Object Model code, you’re not alone. It’s a little bit cryptic, but we can tell...
View ArticleWorkflow Initiation and Association Forms in SharePoint 2010:...
SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 has made creating Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) workflows an awful lot easier. There are still one or two areas that can be confusing to new developers One such...
View ArticleRemoving the Default Editor Parts from SharePoint Web Parts
I was recently asked how to remove the Editor Parts (Appearance, Layout, Advanced, etc) from custom Web Parts. One strategy is to implement your own Editor Part and mark the built-in ones as not...
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