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Adding a Silverlight Control to an existing ASP.NET Website
I’ve only been working with Silverlight for a few months now and I’ve came to the conclusion that either my Google-fu is lacking or there isn’t a great deal of lower level information out there on how...
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Leveraging SharePoint 2007 through Windows PowerShell
For all of you out there that have not yet been allowed the opportunity to dig into the vastness that is SharePoint 2010 and have become bored with SharePoint 2007, I just might have something new for...
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Upgrading SharePoint 2007 Visual Studio Projects
This blog post will outline the steps required to upgrade a SharePoint 2007 Visual Studio Project to a SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio Project using the VSeWSS Import Tool for Visual Studio 2010...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Update Content Editor Web Parts
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to programmatically update the content in Content Editor Web Part (CEWP)? Maybe you added some HTML that is breaking your page or maybe you’re moving...
View ArticleOpen XML in the Sandbox
Sometime back I was given the task of taking information in an email and automating it into a specifically formatted word document (kind of a strange request I know). With me being a complete OpenXML...
View ArticleFarm, Sandbox, or Client Object Model?
When developing solutions for SharePoint 2010 there are 3 primary options for development. These options are as follows: Farm Sandbox Client Object Model (Managed, Silverlight, and Javascript) It’s...
View ArticleStoring Connection String Information in the Secure Store Service
As a SharePoint developer, i’ve been tasked a few times with pulling data from an external database into SharePoint. More often than not, that data is secured SQL data and needs to be accessed using a...
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Creating a Dynamic Status Bar in SharePoint
In this quick example I’ll show how you can utilize a SharePoint list and the Status Bar to provide messages to the site, which are dynamically loaded every 10 seconds. And it’s super easy when using...
View ArticleStoring Credentials in a SharePoint Property Bag
I recently posted about storing credentials in the Secure Store Service, and based on a few comments, I figured I should also post about storing credentials in the property bag. For this post I’m just...
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Creating a Custom SharePoint Calendar Rollup
A few months ago I had a requirement to rollup multiple SharePoint 2010 Calendars into one centralized calendar. I initially thought, “overlays make that a piece of cake!” Little did I know, I was...
View ArticleHelpful JavaScript Functions for SharePoint
There is no mistaking it, when it comes to SharePoint 2010 and on, JavaScript plays a huge role. A lot of the JavaScript you generally don’t see however, and if you don’t know where to look, you might...
View ArticleTaking SPQuery To The Max
Recently I was working on a project which utilizes SharePoint to store backend data for a ticketing system. The layout of the data is a bit relational, much like SQL tables. In fact, some would say...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Update a SharePoint Site Group Description
This post is in response to a comment that I received on a previous post. The comment essentially asked how you would go about updating the “About Me” (Description) of a SharePoint Site Group. You...
View ArticleUsing Powershell and the SharePoint 2013 CSOM to Export List Data
One of the all too common tasks that I get in my current position is to export SharePoint list data to a spreadsheet. You might be thinking, why do that when SharePoint provides Export to Excel out of...
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Color Coding a SharePoint 2013 List View the Right Way
In this post, I’ll quickly go over how you can very easily customize an out of the box SharePoint 2013 List View using a lesser-known feature called Client Side Rendering (CSR). CSR basically provides...
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Hiding SharePoint 2013 Form Fields based on Permissions
In a previous post, I explained how you could use a new feature in SharePoint 2013 called Client Side Rendering (CSR) to color code a list view. Using that same methodology, I’ll be going over how you...
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Creating a Document Rollup Using SharePoint 2013 Search
One of the most powerful (and most overlooked) features in SharePoint 2013 is SharePoint Search. Unfortunately, few people realize just how powerful it can be. I suspect that this is because most...
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