Hello. I wonder that, with a use of minimum custom code use, how easy or hard would it be, compared to previous versions, to build a community portal in Sharepoint 2010, in which users upload, view and comment videos, share videos and so on. You can ofcourse take Youtube as an example. Thanks. ...
When checking the HTML source of a SharePoint 2010 Team site, I saw something very strange. There are a number of tags at the end of the file, AFTER the closing HTML tag. I have no idea where these are coming from as they are not in the master page. I have asked a colleague to check this on his SharePoint server and he sees the same th...
how to map sharepoint mapped resource folder to app_globalResources folder in VS 2010 ?? ...
I am looking for some kind of documentation on all the content place holders which are used in a 2010 SharePoint Master Page. I would like to know which place holders are overridden by and the controls they render. For example, I think the "PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" renders SharePoint groups + categories in a blog site. i think it will be ...
I'm working on migrating our company's documents from a generic file server to Sharepoint 2010 and was wondering if there was any way to keep the original Created Date property from the documents so it shows up in Sharepoint with the original Creation date rather than the date it was added to Sharepoint. Is this possible? We're current...
I'm working on a webpart for a sharepoint 2010 installation. This has multiple sites, and each site has pages, and may have subsites, themselves with more pages and sites. I want to get a list of all pages in the entire installation that match a certain criteria (eg title == "Test"). I can do this using a CAML SPSiteDataQuery object an...
Where is it best practice to set up the configuration such as connection strings or web service URL's in SharePoint 2010's Web Parts? Web parts do not contain a web.config or an app.config and for good reason. So i wanted to know what everyone else does. Would it be a good idea to create another assembly file along with your project?...
Hi there, I was encouraged to learn that the Sharepoint 2010 Client Object Model essentially wraps remote calls to the server. So, I copied the Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Silverlight.dll and Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Silverlight.Runtime.dll from my Sharepoint 2010 server to my development machine (without Sharepoint). I assumed the ...
I have a content type defined in Elements.xml and I want to add an Event Receiver. My Elements.xml looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <!-- Parent ContentType: Announcement (0x0104) --> <ContentType ID="0x0104008a424de98660457481eb7d8ddb5161ee" ...
I'm writing a custom search app. Currently using the KeywordQuery class. I can get results fine, but if I try to sort by a custom property, it bombs with: Can't sort by pid 400 for one or more of the following reasons: multi-valued: false, binary: false, non-indexed: true. The following is the code. Anyone spot the issue? ...
I'm looking for a program, feature or timerjob that checks links on SharePoint 2010 Publishing-Sites and Hyperlink-Lists if they are alive. The Out-of-the-box link scanner of SharePoint checks only internal links. I need one that checks external links, too. I tried non SharePoint link checkers, but they won't work with the SharePoint a...
I got a WCF service hosted inside the SharePoint 2010 following this article http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1404-how-to-customize-wcf-services-in-sharepoint-2010/ Everything was going great until I wanted to increase the MaxReceivedMessageSize however there is no configuration file for this service. I tried to add a configuration fil...
I have several SharePoint lists: booking calendar, hot desks and location. The calendar has hot desk as a lookup column (linked to the hot desks list). The hot desks list also has a lookup column (linking to the locations list). When I add a calendar item I have set up a workflow task to retrieve the location from the hot desks list (b...
I'm having a tough time find the correct web service or client object model for accessing the status feed for a user. I need to access the latest update and have the ability to update it. Also, if editing the status, how will I determine if the current user is authorized to make that edit? Thanks for any info ...
I have a question about how the SharePoint 2010 handle a user request when the environment have for example one web front end and one application server. Does the web front end just route the request to the application server and the application sever do the entire job then send the response back, or the web front end process the reque...
I have my Sharepoint Server 2010 set-up and everything appears to be functioning correctly. However, when I attempt to create a console application on the Sharepoint server, I cannot find a reference to the Micrsooft.Sharepoint.dll. I manually browse to "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\ISAPI", ad...
Hi all, I create a c# console project to read the excel document on the sharepoint server, everything works fine. The problem is when I try to read the excel file data in a silverlight application, a exception popped up as below: {System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: An error occurred while trying to make a request to URI 'http:...
I've been hitting my head against a wall on this one for the last couple of days. I have a pretty simple requirement but I cant see how it can be achieved within a Sandboxed solution. I'm depressed because I think its a critical limitation that will cause me grief in future solutions too. Here is the scenario. I have an existing site...
I followed steps in this link but it didn't work well http://www.toddbaginski.com/blog/archive/2009/11/12/how-to-register-an-external-content-type-with-the-sharepoint-search-service.aspx any ideas plz ...
I have made a site in SharePoint Foundation 2010. I used team site as a starting template. I have saved it as my own custom template. Next, I have added that solution to SharePoint Server 2010. When I tried to create a new site in SharePoint Server 2010 based on it, I got an error that a feature is missing. Missing feature guid is e838...