Written by: Gerald Irish
About to embark on an enterprise content management project and haven’t yet chosen which product to use? You are in luck because I have compiled a handy decision tree to help you decide. This is version 1.0, hopefully domain-experts in Drupal and Joomla can help me flesh this out a little more. I’ll also probably …
Written by: Derek Yale
SharePoint Saturday New York City is being held July 31st this year at the Microsoft Manhattan Office. The event is well-known for its lively atmosphere, invaluable presentations, and for its high attendance of SharePoint professionals and MVPs. A full day of networking, knowledge sharing, and everything SharePoint all at no cost to its attendees? At …
Written by: Lee Kohn
Here are some handy links if you are interested in customizing SharePoint 2010′s ribbon UI: http://sharepointegg.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-button-from-ribbon-in-sharepoint.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff407290.aspx Also if you need to find the IDs/Locations etc… of existing elements in the ribbon you can find them in this file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\CMDUI.xml -Lee
Written by: Lee Kohn
Today I had the pleasure of taking a SharePoint solution which had been built against 2007 and migrating it to 2010. The whole process went much smoother than I had originally thought although I did learn a couple of things: Anything stored in the session state must be marked as serializable This was simply an oversight in …
Written by: Derek Yale
Sharepoint Saturday, Washington DC was held on May 15th this year. The event, at no charge to registrants, offers a full day of knowledge sharing, networking and seminars. MetroStar Systems was delighted to attend and support SPSDC. Our very own SharePoint experts, Janis Hall and Ricardo Palhano, presented on SharePoint Governance, specifically covering details on …
Written by: Lee Kohn
Yesterday I was testing an ASP .Net page within SharePoint which contained a SharePoint People Editor control which was acting rather ‘strange’. It would render in an odd kind of way and removing a person from the control would cause the entire text box to be removed from the DOM! I was convinced that there …
Written by: Lee Kohn
If you ever find yourself modifying data within SharePoint using custom ASP .Net pages, you will undoubtedly have run into errors regarding the pages security validation being invalid. Rather than disabling security validation, which can leave your pages open to XSS attacks, follow the recommendations in the following blog post regarding using the FormDigest tag …
Written by: Lee Kohn
Today I ran into a rather obnoxious bug in SharePoint 2007 workflow actions. When using the ‘Copy List Item‘ action in a workflow targeting a document library, I noticed that sometimes not all of the fields would get copied to the new list. At first it seemed random in its appearance but after playing with …
Written by: Mostafa Elzoghbi
Hello Everyone, I’d like to share some of the experiences I had at the 2010 Microsoft MVP Global Summit which was held from 16-19 Feb 2010 in Seattle, WA. This year’s summit was exciting for MVPs as some big announcements for new products at Microsoft such as Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, Mobile …
Written by: Daniel Nguyen
MetroStar Systems is pleased and proud to announce that our team member, Mostafa Elzohgbi, will be presenting at Microsoft’s exclusive 2010 MVP Global Summit which takes place February 16-19, 2010 at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Mostafa’s presentation will cover both C# and Sharepoint with his session titled “LINQ in Sharepoint 2010 Development.” He will …
