SharePoint 2010 – LINQ for SharePoint

Microsoft released ‘sneak peak’ videos last week on the developer enhancements in SharePoint 2010. One of new features discussed is LINQ for SharePoint. From the video, LINQ for SharePoint looks very similar to LINQ to SQL (which reached a dead end last year). Below is a diagrammatic re... [More]

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 reaches RTM Milestone

Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 7 project. The Windows 7 team is proud to share with you that a short while ago we have started to release Windows 7 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners. This means our next major milestone will be the availability of PCs loaded with Windows 7 and... [More]

SharePoint 2010 – So far…

Lot is going on with the community after the announcement of SharePoint 2010, so I thought it would be good to see what we have so far: Before moving into the list, here is the SharePoint 2010 Pizza Microsoft Links Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview SharePoint Conference Share... [More]

Come and have a ‘sneak peek’ at SharePoint 2010

There is a lot of buzz and twittering going on since the day Microsoft announced what's coming in the next version – SharePoint 2010. If you live in Wellington and If you are interested to know more in detail regarding the various announcements that has been discussed so far regarding SharePo... [More]

Item Level Permission for Document Libraries – Release v1.0.0.0

  [There is currently some problem with CodePlex and I am not able to upload my files or source code in my CodePlex project. This project will be eventually moved to CodePlex soon.] This project is now available at CodePlex – http://ilp.codeplex.com  ------------------------------... [More]

IE8 to SharePoint-‘Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?’

Building ‘easy’ and ‘complex’ user controls or field controls is one of those daily jobs that a SharePoint developer will do when building WCM websites. Recently whenever I was navigating from the Edit Mode, whether it may be a postback or clicking on a link to a different p... [More]

SharePoint Conference – My slide deck and samples

The first ever New Zealand SharePoint Conference which was held last week (July 2nd – 3rd) was a blast! We not only had local speakers, but also international speakers which included: 1) Joel Oleson 2) Paul Culmsee 3) Erica Toelle 3) Steve Smith 4) Paul Papanek Stork I have uploaded my slide... [More]

Set Available PageLayouts for your Site

Below is a code snippet for setting available page layouts for your site:  List<String> strPageLayoutsToPersist = new List<string> { "Home Page", "General Detail Page", "Email Me Page", ... [More]