Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2010’

I decided to expand on one of Travis Neilson’s posts called Introducing Documents Sets. Being the eternal developer that I am I decided to write a blog on how to create a Document Set using C# and the new object model for SP2010.   In trying to figure out how to do this, I though […]

After being shown the Managed Metadata Service and the Term Stores in SharePoint 2010, I felt the need to figure out how to create all of the items that were shown to me in code. Below is a list of new classes that we will be using to accomplish the task: TaxonomySession TermStore Group TermSet […]

NOTE: THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR RELEASE CANDIDATE SOFTWARE. PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING POST FOR UPDATED CONTENT: https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/nielsen_travis/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=42 One of the most intriguing of the many new features that SharePoint 2010 brings to the table is a completely new mechanism handle user identity. This mechanism is based on the Windows Identity Foundation (formerly […]

For the past month or so I’ve been giving Windows Identity Foundation a very close look, especially where it relates to SharePoint 2010. I’ll be posting a series of blogs on this subject and I thought it might be useful to start off with a quick introduction on how to access the claims from which […]

In previous versions of SharePoint it was impossible to add corners to a Web Part with just CSS (unless you were building sites for only the latest browsers). The best way was to style a container DIV on the Page Layout and put a Web Part Zone inside. Then, a Web Part in that zone […]

The backgrounds in SharePoint 2010 were designed to allow end users to change gradients by simply picking solid colors on the settings page. For example if you choose an orange background color the result is a fade from orange to lighter orange. The change can be very subtle but is an effective way to create […]

To enable the scope picker next to search input box I started off with the 2007 approach of writing a custom feature and giving it higher priority as mentioned in this MSDN article. Even after setting the search control’s DropDownModeEx property to “ShowDD” it wasn’t displaying the dropdown. After some struggle I stumbled up on […]

One of my most popular posts to date has been the post to open Stsadm at any point in command prompt. I have updated this post for SharePoint 2010. This will save you from having to type C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14bin every time you need to run Stsadm. Open Environment Variables From Server […]

I just returned from the 5 day SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for Developers in Amsterdam. The training was an invitation-only opportunity for Mircrosoft’s top-tier partners to get hands-on experience with the latest and greatest features in the upcoming SharePoint release. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to go to this event and […]

This probably won’t impact folks too much when the public beta of SP 2010 hits, but I thought I’d put this up in-case others out there in the community are having this issue. After a new build of my virtual machine with a pre-release version of SP2010, I saw the User Profile Application Service was […]

Sharepoint 2010 includes out-of-the-box support for RESTful access to list data via the ListData.svc service. This service makes it easy to write client-side applications that consume data from SharePoint lists. The service is a significant improvement over Lists.asmx (which is still supported) in that it natively supports Atom or JSON formatted responses allowing AJAX applications […]

I was doing an Stsadm addcontentdb in SharePoint 2010 and noticed that there is a percentage meter that runs to let you know how far along your process is. This is great news for anyone that has imported a large site and wondered if it was actually working or if SharePoint was hung up.