I have to create a SharePoint 2010 ribbon element (tabs, buttons, groups, etc.). Is there a way to create such elements via the SharePoint API without using custom actions? Edit: I've just found the possibilty to add elements like this (link): SPRibbon r = SPRibbon.GetCurrent(Page); r.RegisterDataExtension(/* XmlNode containing ribbo...
Hi, I want to import user profiles in MOSS 2007 server into my SharePoint 2010 server. Can anyone please suggest how can i go about achieving the same. Can we import user profiles using Business Data Connection in Configure Synchronization Connection in User Profile Service Application in SharePoint 2010. Why i am doing this: I want...
Hello, I'm still learning Sharepoint and all of its various concepts, so apologies in advance for my ignorance. Here's what's going on - my company is moving a whole bunch of forms from another application into Sharepoint as InfoPath forms. Each InfoPath form is a Sharepoint list. So, we've got something like 300 different lists re...
I am evaluating Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express for use in a .NET project. Based on this diagram http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/searchserverexpress/en/us/compare.aspx, I get the impression that if you have Search Server by itself, you get a smaller set of features than if you have Search Server and SharePoint 2010 install...
Hi, How can I apply the custom XSL rendering for the XSLTListView web part in SharePoint 2010? So, for example, I have a list of "Employees". Here is the list of columns I have for this Employee list - Full name, Job Title, Team, Contribution, Project. For this list I have created a new "List View" which has a grouping by Job Title. ...
I want to make a drop down control, an HTML select/dropdown box with two specific values. I want to package it so that I can deploy it to any SharePoint 2010 server I want, for its generic. At this point, I am confused if this should be a Visual WebPart, or a Web Control (does this exist in SharePoint 2010, Web Controls?). I would like t...
I'm having a problem getting a custom membership provider to work in SharePoint. The login page is displayed, but when I enter any credentials - right or wrong - I get the following error: The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047) (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server E...
i tried to get the current web using client object model. i am not able to get that..please guide me to find it I tried with the below code its not working.. ClientContext context = new ClientContext(ApplicationContext.Current.Url); ...
In SharePoint 2010 BCS, I have created an external content type to retrieve a list of appointments from our LoB application. This works, and I can see the list of appointments in SharePoint. The problem is, I can only see the appointments as a list. I want to display them in a calendar, but that doesn't seem to be an option. I've set t...
I am new on SP 2010 and VS 2010. After installation of SP, I am able to surf to localhost, and see a page called "Home". I made a test Visual Web Part, and it deployed fine. I am able to edit the home page, and see and add the web part from the Custom folder. I then made a new site, called Foo Site. When I edit its home page, I do not s...
We've got some relational data in SQL Server and would like to build a UI in Sharepoint 2010 to create and modify records. For simple tabular data it's straightforward, but what about master-detail structures where a single logical object is com posited from a number of tables? A large topic, but is there a basic course of action that i...
I make a simple Visual web part and deployed it, and put it on a page. I have a button included in the web part, I want to output some text, like Hello World, output somewhere in SharePoint, so I can do some code tracing when I need to. I assume there is a method for the button, that is called when I click it? It is there that I want to ...
We are using the “CAS” Single Sign-On system that was developed by Jasig. And trying to authenticate users against it for a SharePoint 2010 site. The main issue is that we are validating the user’s username and password on an external site that sends a “ticket” back to our SP2010 site via query string. Our app then revalidates this ti...
Possible or not? I know Sharepoint 2010 Server won't even run on a client side of Vista/Windows 7 64-bit, forget about Windows XP 32-bit. But if I can install and use Visual Studio 2010 on Windows XP just fine, shouldn't Sharepoint development tools also work on Windows XP 32-bit? The thing is I have a very old laptop (from 2005) that...
how to get the recent user name who can edit/add new list/document libraries using client object model. how to find the custom list/Libraries author name like last modified or last edited by. ...
Well, in visual studio 2008 we were able to create infopath 2007 web form project and after that attach to iis process to debug infopath web form. In visual studio 2010 there is not infopath project and we can use only vsto and cant attach to iis process. So, how to debug Infopath 2010 web form? - is it possible? ...
I've narrowed down my learning resources to the following: SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform (APress) Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (WROX) AppDev Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Developers Vol 1 Would you recommend getting one of those books or video training before knowing C# in depth? I'd like to get up to speed wi...
We have encountered a problem with our Sharepoint 2010 installation, after IT decided to move everything onto a new network domain. Everything was fine, although we had to replace all the farm accounts from the old domain with the new domain including the Managed Accounts inside the Central Admin site. However, this week the old domain ...
I just installed a testing environment with SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server as the default search service application. Started with some test content and executed a few searches using the std. SharePoint GUI - everything fine so far. Now I want to execute a more complicated query using the Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.Ful...
With our 2007 site(s) we had a custom module (we developed) to swap out the application.master with our own master page 'CustomApp.Master' which resembled the site default.master. This worked great. After the upgrade, our site's main pages looked fine however when navigating to the admin type pages (settings/viewlists etc.) pages the m...