Microsoft held its popular Build conference in Seattle this week. Microsoft has a lot of different conferences throughout the year, but Build, as the name suggests, is focused on developers, current and future directions of Microsoft development platform and Microsoft cloud technologies. I was lucky enough to attend the conference in person and learn quite […]
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Visual Web Parts in SharePoint 2007
Level: Beginner One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 is Visual Web Parts. However, this approach is really not that new. Developers, including myself, have been using this technique since we first started to develop SharePoint 2007 web parts. The idea is simple: create an ASP.NET user control and wrap it in SharePoint web […]
SharePoint 2010 – New Web 2.0 Enhancements
A long awaited new version of SharePoint is finally here (public Beta in November). WOO HOO!!! I have been working on the SharePoint platform since 2004. When SharePoint 2007 first came out, it changed the game from development perspective. Unlike the 2003 version, the 2007 version was based on standard ASP.NET 2.0 platform; all of […]
Set Silverlight “PluginNotInstalledTemplate” in code behind
Silverlight 2 and 3 provide a Silverlight server side control that takes care of generating Silverlight object tag and all the necessary components in the HTML for you. The control also provides a default template that is automatically displayed to the users who don’t have Silverlight plug-in installed on their machines. Figure 1: Default Silverlight […]
Default Values – Site Columns in Content Types
I recently ran into an interesting SharePoint problem on a client project. I had a publishing page content type that used multiple site columns and some of these columns had default column values, but when I used my content type to create pages, SharePoint didn’t select any of the default values. Obviously, my first debugging […]
Which SharePoint Worker Process?
If you are a SharePoint developer, you probably needed to use Visual Studio debugger to debug nasty little bugs in your SharePoint applications at some point. The process to debug applications on SharePoint requires attaching the Visual Studio debugger to your SharePoint IIS worker process (w3wp), but often times you will find that there are […]
What’s your new year’s SharePoint resolution?
SharePoint is not just a web application, it is a web platform. Being a SharePoint developer is not easy. If you have ever done any SharePoint development, you’re probably aware of some of the challenges. Here are some points that I think will make SharePoint development experience better. 1. Use OOTB tools before jumping into […]
TechEd – Day 4
Friday was the last day of the convention. The vendor booths closed around 1:00 PM and by 4:00 PM almost 90% of the developer crowd was gone. Many Friday sessions were repeat sessions from day 1 thru day 3. Here is the conference summary for Web/SharePoint Developers: · SilverLight 2.0 will be big. Learn it. […]