Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2010’

Scenario You have this Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that runs on plain old vanilla Internet Information Services (IIS). Somewhere along the line, you want to convert this service to run on SharePoint. You’d like to achieve this conversion with a minimal amount of effort because you’re basically inserting another layer into the stack which […]

Working on a multilingual project, I had to come up with an approach for implementing resources values used across our UI solution on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Unlike for SharePoint 2007, there is more flexibility on the new 2010 platform to implement your resx files. I found that there were two approaches that can be […]

Recently, while working with My Sites setup and configuration, we came across certain aspects that needed decisions from the business. Planning My Sites My Site Host Location : This URL can be chosen by the business to define their social computing and collaboration space on the intranet or even the extranet. (Example : http://social.pointbridge.com) Managed […]

This post gives a listing of the User Profile properties available Out-of-the-Box in SharePoint 2010 and additional properties added by NewsGator Social Sites 2010 when installed on top of MySites. It can be a handy resource in cases where you do not have access to the Central Admin or the User Profile Service Application. Column […]

While running SharePoint 2010 configuration wizard you may see the following error: “The given key was not present in the dictionary”.   The sharepoint config database gets created, however the wizard fails at trying to create Central Admin site and CA content database. You need to : 1. delete the config database from the SQL […]

A requirement on a recent SharePoint 2010 intranet project that I worked on was to implement a mechanism for users to click on a Contact image on a page which would then create an e-mail addressed to a designated site administrator. This would enable the users to either submit feedback or a question related to […]

This is part 3 in a series of how to make a sites page and sub-site links show in a second row in the top nav. Here are links to part one and part two. My second post was a pure CSS solution for how to create the second row. It is by far the […]

The following code is a combo of JavaScript (jQuery) & little HTML. It can be pasted into a 2010 Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to create a dynamic slideshow of a Picture Library. All you will need to do after pasting the code below into a CEWP is change the two items that are indicated […]

There are a few options for disabling the SharePoint Mobile Redirection System. Disabling the system means that browsers will not be redirected to a mobile version of the site created by SharePoint by default. This is not about how to customize the mobile view that only mobile devices would see. Modify the webconfig file Add […]

This blog post is v2 of my first article about accomplishing this task of creating a second top-nav row in SharePoint 2010. That article can be found here: Make Top Nav in SharePoint 2010 display a horizontal line with menu items instead of the fly-out menu. This solution is much easier because it is done […]

Overview: A complaint about SharePoint 2007 sites is that they use TABLES for layout. TABLES make the UI less accessible, flexible, and functional – to put it simply. SharePoint 2010 was developed with todays standards of compatibility and uses DIVs and SPANs instead. Mostly this works well but I will point out an area where […]

I am currently on a project to upgrade a custom SharePoint 2007 public facing internet site to SharePoint 2010. While testing out our custom site templates by provisioning sites we ran into some issues with custom content types supposedly not existing during the provisioning. This was very perplexing as these content type definitions deployed fine […]