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• Inconvenient SharePoint 2007 localization

  SharePoint 2007 has built-in support for Resource files helping you achieve localization. Using these files you are able to set localized labels for the resources being provisioned. Furthermore you are able to use Resource files within your assemblies... Posted Feb 08 2008, 03:36 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint Programmatically, SharePoint development

• Inconvenient SharePoint Solution Generator

  While working with the SharePoint Solution Generator (a utility which ships with Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) I have stumbled upon an interesting by-design feature which affects the way you develop Features - at least... Posted Feb 04 2008, 09:47 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint Programmatically, SharePoint Best Practices, SharePoint development

• Exporting List Definitions in a development environment using Visual Studio 2008

  Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (VSeWSS) ship with a useful tool called SharePoint Solutions Generator. One of its features I use most often is creating a List Definition based on an existing list. Since the CAML schema... Posted Feb 04 2008, 08:23 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint Tools, SharePoint Programmatically, SharePoint development

• Extending the SharePoint:FieldValue WebControl

  How many times did you try to incorporate some extra rules or formatting into Page Layouts? Formatting a date is just one of the many examples solving which can cause you spent many hours trying to using the out-of-the-box available controls. The SharePoint... Posted Dec 09 2007, 10:59 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Page Layouts, SharePoint customization, SharePoint Programmatically

• Inconvenient StringToSPViewType (Programmatically adding Views)

  I've just stumbled upon a little inconvenience within SharePoint object model. As I needed to programmatically add a new View to a list, I have used the StringToSPViewType method of SPViewCollection class to convert a string representation of the... Posted Nov 23 2007, 07:32 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint Programmatically

• Displaying Features' version in the Site (Collection) Features Overview

  For each solution we develop for our customers we reuse a set of internal components we have developed – a kind of baseline library. As we use it we fix some errors and add some new functionality. To distinguish the different releases we modify the version... Posted Oct 12 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint customization, SharePoint Programmatically

• SharePoint Programmatically: Managing Solutions

  Managing SharePoint 2007 Solutions programmatically isn’t a daily-matter: some of you might even participate on quite a few projects without even coming close to it. As I have worked with it recently a bit I would like to share my findings with you. I... Posted Sep 27 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint Programmatically

• SharePoint Programmatically: Provisioning Lookup Fields

  Provisioning Content Type’s fields is quite straight forward when using Solutions: using Element Manifests you can define your own Content Types and their properties among which fields. Unfortunately there is one serious con to the solution Microsoft... Posted Sep 06 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, SharePoint Programmatically