I was recently tasked with taking an exploratory look at the mobile rendering capabilities of SharePoint 2010 to get a feel for it. The short of it is that it’s sad to say that in 2010 (the year, that is),...
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...
As I was working on an AJAX upload web part for SharePoint, I looked around to see if there was anything out there that would be suitable before I rolled my own after discovering that the ASP.NET UpdatePanel doesn’t play...
One of the cool features of SharePoint 2010 is the simplification of content type management/synchronization. In SharePoint 2007, site collections formed a metadata boundary meaning that content types defined in one site collection could not be used in another site...
In the previous entry, we looked at how we can model a SharePoint list item using a more domain specific model to simplify programmatic access to the list item thus reducing otherwise error prone data access code and making the...
I’ve been working on setting up a VM to play around with SharePoint 2010 and kept running into a weird issue where I would be prompted for my credentials repeatedly and I was denied access to the site entirely, even...
If you’ve deleted the DLL or if you reinstalled a DLL which no longer contains the codebehind class for a user control in a web part, you could end up in a scenario where you have a “dead” web part...
Weird discovery of the day: Recovery.gov is SharePoint (check the source or try a search). Cool.
In the previous entry, we explored how to clean up our interaction with instances of SPSite, SPWeb, and SPList objects. Logically, the next scenario that we’d want to cover is working with the SPListItem that we get back from the...
One thing that I’ve discovered is that it’s easy to write sloppy, hard to read code when SharePoint is involved. A lot of it may be due to the quick-and-dirty code samples out on the ‘Net and a general lack...