I tripped up on it a bit recently on SharePoint taxonomy fields (or managed metadata fields) as I found that I wasn’t able to push down values from a SharePoint list item to a Word document programmatically in SharePoint. I...
The content organizer in SharePoint 2010 is an interesting feature, particularly from an application development perspective as it gives you a fairly competent rules builder (why does it post back when you select a content type? Like seriously, Microsoft?) and...
If you’re trying to get all of the content controls in an OpenXML document, the most obvious way to do it would be:
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// Get the document instance WordprocessingDocument document = ...; // Get all of the SdtBlock elements document.MainDocumentPart.Document.Descendants<SdtBlock>(); |
But this will only get you some of the content controls. Basically, it won’t return any...
You’ll recall from a previous post that you can add an event receiver to a content type. That’s all well and good if you’re deploying your event receiver with your content type from the get go, but what if you...
I came across Irony (https://github.com/IronyProject/Irony) today while contemplating whether to use antlr or not for a project I’m working on where the requirements call for allowing users to write small conditional instructions. From the project site description: Irony is a...
For a recent prototype, I was tasked with building a solution to allow authors to create “standard text” entries in SharePoint 2010 which could then be re-used by authors. One of the challenges was trying to figure out the best...
I spent half a day at the Philly .NET Code Camp and ended up attending only two sessions (weather was too nice outside to be sitting inside on a Saturday :-D). By chance, I saw Alvin Ashcraft’s name on the...
I recently had to write a search-driven component to extract and export documents from a SharePoint repository. It presented a challenge since many examples on the web start from the premise of a file system and not binary streams. I...
Just a little blurb on FluentNHibernate and NHibernate.Linq. I’ve been working through the samples for FNH and decided to try out some different query scenarios to see how the queries would be generated. I stumbled a bit on the first...
Update: see this post for how to use paging to improve retrieval of large data sets. Let it be known that Microsoft’s terrible design of list paging is inexecusable and to make matters worse, the documentation is practically non-existent. You...