I am pleased to announce that the Metadata Search Web Part for SharePoint 2010 is now released! The Web Part allows users to do advanced search in SharePoint 2010 with very minimal configuration. The Web Part has the following features: Search SharePoint lists – perform advanced searches on any SharePoint list or library using metadata Generate … Read more
When you are developing custom SharePoint web parts using SharePoint Object Model, it’s not enough that you can properly render contents in “Browse mode”. Your web part must also take into account when the page it is attached to goes into “Edit mode”. In this blog post, I enumerate the different states the web part … Read more
Back in SharePoint 2007, it was pretty popular to use the built-in Javascript function MSOTlPn_ShowToolPane2Wrapper to put the Web part page into edit mode and have the Web part properties editable. Typically, you would put something like the following in your Web part class code: In the example above, I render a “please configure the … Read more
I am in the process of getting up to speed with the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE and how it can be used to develop custom SharePoint 2010 solutions. It’s so easy to do a “Hello World” Web part project now. These days, my Hello World projects typically involve opening up a database table and … Read more
I was viewing my blog today and noticed the tag cloud on my sidebar. The most prominent tags are “SharePoint”, “Developers”, and “Administrators”. SharePoint. Developers. Administrators. From time to time, I will meet SharePoint professionals in networking events or when interviewing job applicants at a customer site and I will ask what their SharePoint experience … Read more
I was in a SharePoint governance meeting at one of my customer sites yesterday and the group is thinking of enforcing some rules as far as SharePoint solution packages go. I kept saying during the meeting “Inspect the manifest file so that you can view what files are going to be installed on the server and where they … Read more