about 1 month ago - 1 comment
Last time I wrote that the stsadm -o copyappbincontent command didn’t work if you had installed Office 2010 on the same machine with your SharePoint 2007. Later I found the same problem on more scenarios:
When running the stsadm -o copyappbincontent command.
When attaching a content db to Web application.
When running the psconfig command or running the More >
about 1 month ago - 1 comment
Working with anonymous SharePoint sites can be tricky sometimes. If you’re not careful, your customization codes (Web parts, custom controls, custom pages, etc.) can popup the login dialog box to anonymous users. As anonymous users they don’t have a user account, so obviously they won’t be able to enter their user ID and password. Or More >
about 2 months ago - 3 comments
*Update: InfoPath 2010 is the real cause, please check this post.
I love Microsoft Office 2010. It’s more beautiful and faster than Microsoft Office 2007. I downloaded and installed the product immediately after its RTM version arrived on the MSDN download page. I even installed it on my Windows Server 2003 virtual machine that runs More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
The singleton design pattern is one of the most controversial pattern. Some people even call it anti-pattern, evil, or stupid. I won’t go into the debate now, but I just want to share something for those who need to use singletons.
Although it is one of the easiest pattern to understand, it is also very easy More >
about 5 months ago - No comments
As you may have noticed, CodePlex now supports Mercurial as the source control. Mercurial is a free and distributed version control system. It’s currently gaining a high momentum that big projects like Mozilla, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, Symbian OS, and many others are now using it. Aside from CodePlex, other project hosting sites like Google Code, bitbucket, More >
about 7 months ago - No comments
In this post, I’ll cover some common operations on SharePoint lists which you can simplify with LiquidSilver. For this purpose, I continue using the Actors list we created earlier.
1. Clearing all items in a list
One day, Katie — one of Tom’s client — came by and asked whether she could empty the Actors list in one More >
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
What is LiquidSilver? If you don’t know about it yet, I suggest you read the short introduction post first.
1. Getting the source code
Before anything, you need to download the LiquidSilver source code from CodePlex. Currently there’s only one change set available. I still have some more updates on my private repository that needs some clean More >
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
This is an introductory post to LiquidSilver SharePoint Framework that I’ve been developing with my friend, Riwut Libinuko.
LiquidSilver is a SharePoint Framework that provides various classes and functions to deal with common tasks in any SharePoint development to help you work much easier, faster, more object-oriented, and more productive. LiquidSilver is compatible with WSS 3.0 More >
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
If you want a tutorial on how to create a custom ist definition in SharePoint, check MSDN or Andrew Connell’s post. Here, I’ll just provide several short recipes for some scenarios.
1. How to rename the Title column in the list definition?
Often, you want to rename the Title column in your list definition. Don’t do it, More >
about 2 years ago - 23 comments
This is becoming a pretty common requirement. Some people just don’t want the “Send To” menu appearing in the context menu of the document library. You can do it — customize the SharePoint context menu by — by simply making some modification in core.js as suggested by many.
But modifying SharePoint core files should not be More >