TechEd Bloggers Office and SharePoint

Cool Results with AJAX Options in List View Web

Jan Tielens — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:39:25 GMT

Jan Tielens writes, "...When you add a Web Part from the List and Libraries ...behind the scenes the Data View Web Part is being used to display the List or Document Library data...When you edit such a Web Part once it has been added to a page, you’ll notice there is a new AJAX Options section in the Web Part properties..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:39:25 GMT

New Codeplex Project for Bulk Work Item Manipulation

Brian Harry — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:27:26 GMT

Brian Harry writes, "...Excel is a good solution for many bulk changes but we really don't have a great solution for rapidly changing a lot of work item links. This looks like it might be a useful tool..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:27:26 GMT

SharePoint 2010 Tips for Performance

Raúl Ribeiro — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:09:02 GMT

Raúl Ribeiro writes, "... tips that I've been gathering for using SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machines: [1] External USB 2.0 are too slow, you shoud use e-Sata, with 7200 RPM, or SSD [2] The VM virtual discs shoud have a unique file with fixed size, when you create VM..." more

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:09:02 GMT

How to Configure Single Sign On to Use With Data View Web Part

Asif Rehmani — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:23:36 GMT

Asif Rehmani writes, "...For example, a sales person in the organization should be able to view the sales revenue data while an IT analyst should not. To make that happen, you need to configure the Single Sign On functionality which comes built into SharePoint Server. Single Sign On in SharePoint simply means..." more

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:23:36 GMT

Why You Would Want to Use SharePoint Publishing Sites

Asif Rehmani — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:02:23 GMT

Asif Rehmani writes, "...publishing site has publishing pages which contain field controls in addition to web part zones and web parts. These pages reside in a very special library called Pages. The pages in the Pages library all derive from pre-defined page layouts which tell the page how to position its content on the page. For example..." more

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:02:23 GMT

SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy and the Managed Metadata Service: Great References

Joris Poelmans — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:03:34 GMT

Joris Poelmans writes, "If you’re new to the concept of the managed metadata service, managed keywords and the managed metadata field I strongly suggest that you take a look at the following links:..." more

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:03:34 GMT

Instructions Migrating Excel 4 Macros to VBA

Excel Team Blog — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:48:58 GMT

Excel Team Blog writes, "...In Excel 2010, one of our goals was to remove any remaining barriers that people had to complete the migration of Excel 4 macros to VBA...Please use Excel 2010 to migrate your macros and let us know if we missed any functionality...Macro Function help file can be found here..." more

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:48:58 GMT

Office 2010 Developer Atlas is a New Interactive Developer Tool

Brian Jones — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:46:27 GMT

Brian Jones writes, "...This tool is a great starting point for learning how to develop Office solutions. The current version of the tool concentrates on the following: [1] Building solutions with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) [2] Customizing the Ribbon Fluent UI [3] Customizing the Office 2010 Backstage View..." more

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:46:27 GMT

SharePoint 2010 Social Data Stats Web Part Template

Joris Poelmans — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:25:53 GMT

Joris Poelmans writes, "...The sample demonstrates how to use the new Social Data object model in SharePoint Server 2010. It also takes advantage of the SharePoint Visual Web Part template, one of the new SharePoint templates that you can use in Visual Studio 2010..." more

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:25:53 GMT

Code to Enable a Button on the SharePoint Ribbon Based on Selection

Richard Riley — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:48:38 GMT

Richard Riley writes, "A lot of people have asked me how to create a button which enables if and only if a single item is selected. This isn’t something we have out of the box, but the code to get this functionality is pretty simple...Basically," more

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:48:38 GMT

Completely Honest: Setting up Enterprise SharePoint Dashboard is Hard

Stephanie Saad — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:27:26 GMT

Stephanie Saad writes, "...want to be completely honest with you. It’s hard, and it’s going to take some work and some time. Do not expect to get this up in an hour, or even a couple hours. The TFS configuration is going to be relatively straightforward, but SP will take some time. I’ve done the setup myself end to end, so" more

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:27:26 GMT

Issue Publishing the HTTPS SharePoint Instance Without TMG

Adam Buenz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:23:41 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "This question came up with a client this morning...they wanted to publish the HTTPS SharePoint instance WITHOUT using the certificate in the TMG instance. This obviously is not a supported route, because..." more

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:23:41 GMT

Office 2007 Install Surprises

Dave Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:59:26 GMT

Dave Campbell writes, "...I neglected to consider what all I am supporting here...Office 2003 was uninstalled, which under normal circumstances would have been a nice surprise, but then I started thinking about the 4 large MS Access applications that I deploy from a server. And of course all my shortcuts to build MDB files disappeared because..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:59:26 GMT

How to Create Custom Web Services in Sharepoint 2007

Mostafa Arafa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:45 GMT

Mostafa Arafa writes, "If you want to build your own custom Web services that will be hosted in a sharepoint instance, here is the complete walkthrough that you need to folow:.." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:45 GMT

Code Sample Viewing Access Table Definitions

Richard Siddaway — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:46:13 GMT

Richard Siddaway writes, "...how do we investigate the structure of the database. The first thing we need to know is the tables in our database...In this case we are using ADO (the older brother of ADO.NET). We need to create a COM object for the connection and open it using the path to our database. This will fail if..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:46:13 GMT

Determining How Many SharePoint Site Collections You Need

Mauro Cardarelli — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:27 GMT

Mauro Cardarelli writes, "When I lead a design session and we talk about site collections I lay out for discussion the items listed below. In the case of an intranet design, I always start with two site collections...walk participants through the technical and tactical decision points, and challenge the default design until we get to a comfortable place...for example..." more

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:27 GMT

Clarifying OS Requirements to run SharePoint 2010

Richard Riley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:42:56 GMT

Richard Riley writes, "We've seen some confusion in the newsgroups and elsewhere on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 will run on. This post is meant to clarify some of the most common questions we have seen...SharePoint is not supported on..." more

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:42:56 GMT

Workaround Creating TFS Work Items Based On SharePoint Build Outcome

Adam Buenz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:28 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "...one problem that bubbled up was that the previously employed build manager had attempted to put together some code to have a build based on compilation success/failure of his SharePoint projects to generate work items...this problem implies that there wasn't some of the required foundation laid down before the aforementioned code was integrated..." more

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:28 GMT

Code Showing Using TestResultsRoot Property Correctly in SharePoint Builds

Adam Buenz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:24:44 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "...A common mistake that is made is when copying a SharePoint assembly to the output folder of a Unit Test during a custom Build that property will appear invalid. The solution for this is fairly straightforward, because 9 times out of 10 it comes down to the property being accessed out of the build scope. To correct it..." more

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:24:44 GMT

How to Remove Corrupted Sites Before SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

Joel Oleson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:40:51 GMT

Joel Oleson writes, "...with SharePoint being split across multiple databases, it is quite possible that a site could be in either the content database OR the config database. With service pack 2 there’s a new way to find orphaned sites. In addition to running STSADM..." more

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:40:51 GMT