There's been a lot of developer frustration working with SharePoint but we all hope Microsoft has been listening. With that in mind... What updated and new features for developers excite you about working with WSS 4.0 and SharePoint Server 2010? One answer per feature please so the community can vote on each one. ...
Hello. While I am quite comfortable with the .Net world, I am a baby as far as SharePoint technologies are concerned. With the advent of SharePoint 2010 (Foundation especially), I'd like to directly learn the new version. However, I am not getting enough resources on the Internet that can be helpful. Besides knowing to maneuver a ShareP...
Hello. I am new to SharePoint technologies and trying to figure out its suitability for a product to be developed. I am targeting using only SharePoint Foundation (not the server). Here are some of the key aspect of the target product: The product is data intensive. There are scores of business and system entities involved. Business e...
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...
Is there any other ways of exporting a sites as solution in SharePoint Foundation 2010 except through "Site Settings -> Site Actions -> Save Site as Template"? Seems to be the only way, just to make sure I'm not missing anything (through the designer probably? There's an option in the designer, but it brings you to the same "Save Site as...
There's this cool new feature in SP 2010 where you can specify a custom validation formula and an error message for any column. For some reason it doesn't work when you replace the default NewForm.aspx for a list with a custom form using SharePoint designer's "Create New List Form -> New Item Form". It creates an aspx where it puts a Fo...
We are using SharePoint 2010 Foundation. We have an item in a list that is a dropdown with values from another list. When we access the list as a SharePoint list it works fine, we can select a value, save the list, the next time we access the list the correct value is selected. We have programmed a form that will updated the list. Whe...
Hi, We just installed Sharepoint Foundation 2010 and we're preparing to set it up for our knowledge management project. I'm reading a lot over the Web and there seems to be options to categorize Wiki pages in Sharepoint, with the use of keywords and/or something called a "Term Store". The problem is I can't find any of this in our ins...
Hello. If I want to access only the document library of SharePoint Foundation from a .Net application (not a web app) using APIs (not web services), then is it possible to install SharePoint Foundation without IIS? ...
Hi, After much trials-and-errors, I've managed to find how to add new columns in Site Pages of our Sharepoint Foundation 2010. I'll explain using a field called "Category" I created. The problem I have now is that the only way to add or edit my page categories is to first create a new page, enter its title when asked by the pop-up, ent...
I've been searching high and low for a satisfactory answer to this and failed. I hope StackOverflow can deliver for me! I am using SharePoint Foundation 2010 (my first real attempt to deep dive into SharePoint), with (among other things) a custom web part; the master page for the site uses a CSS file supplied by the client and to which ...
How to change app pool account credentials for any web application in sharepoint 2010 ...
We have an Apache (Redhat 4.6, Apache 2.0.52, libxml2 2.6.16) as a reverse proxy. Authentification and most of the functionality is o.k. But on SharePoint2010-side he has minor problems: - Pulldown menu doesn't work - List editings menu has errors There seems as Reverse proxy can't extract the hard coded of the SharePoint Server within ...