One of the first things you will probably ask yourself when you start embarking on SharePoint 2010 development is where do you set up your development environment. As I started investigating this, I realized there are a number of various options each with their own implications. Below is listing of each...

In my last post I mentioned I had the privilege of attending the SharePoint 2010 conference. In this post I'd like to review the things I think were quite notable based on the sessions I attended: Sandboxed Solutions: I have run into a lot of clients who want to use SharePoint as their application...

So this is my first blog post...ever! Yeah, I'm pretty excited that I have finally taken the plunge and decided to write about something, so here goes... I have been working at imason for over 6 years now and in that time my main technology focus has been around SharePoint. I was lucky enough to...

Problem: You've been asked to create a graphic design that can be applied to a SharePoint 2007 site - but you've never seen one before. Or, you've seen one but don't have access to the CSS to see how things are set up. Here are some basic guidelines for creating a graphic design that...

I was working on a custom search (Full Text Search) web part when at a point I came to know that managed property of a Publishing HTML field is returning just Text (simple) not actual HTML saved in that field. Whereas client requirement was to show formatted text with hyperlinks etc. in the web part...

A few weeks back, I was trying to configure Enterprise Library 4.0 for Exception handling and Logging exception into event log but was not able to find any help on internet so it took me long time to do all the configurations for handling and logging exceptions using Enterprise. Library 4.0. Follow following...

A client has reported an issue that users were not able to upload files larger than 50MB file which we can resolve easily by updating Web Application settings; however, users were getting Timeout exceptions as well. Furthermore, business told us that business requirement is to be able to upload up to...

ehucsd969j I am deleting a folder from a document library using the code: using (SPSite tempDocLibSite = new SPSite(tempDocLibWebRootUrl)) { using (SPWeb tempDocLibWeb = tempDocLibSite.OpenWeb()) { tempDocLibWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; SPFolder tempAttachmentSubFolder = tempDocLibWeb.GetFolder(string...

On my SharePoint server, I have a media directory (i.e. c:\media) full of media files that I needed to stream on the web via a SharePoint Media Player Web Part that I created (similar to [1]). At first, I just pointed an IIS virtual directory to that directory (i.e. http://<myserver>/media) and...

I haven’t found any information on this but today I tried to add a custom event handler to a list automatically when a custom field type is added to a list using the OnSaveChange() method and I got the following error: The specified program requires a newer version of Windows. (Exception from HRESULT...