Visio 2010: Designing SharePoint (2010) Workflows

Today people use SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio (I haven’t played around creating workflows with VS though) or third party tools like K2, Nintex for building/designing workflows. Adding to this ‘elite list’ of workflow designers is Visio 2010! Yep, now business users can make ... [More]

SharePoint WCM – Breaking the Ice – Building the initial Master Page

In our earlier post we got introduced to our new client Jet30, had our initial discussions and we came out with the initial home page/website design.   Before getting into the discussion of what would be our site columns, content types and page layouts, let us use this template, create a Shar... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Introducing the Client Object Model

  Today If you want to access SharePoint Server 2007 Data today, you have two ways of doing it (based on your needs): Writing a Server Application This application resides in server Writing a Client Application This client application can run from any other server or a desk... [More]

SharePoint WCM – Breaking the Ice – A look into the website template, Home Page and other Controls

In the previous post we saw the basic initial steps in getting started with SharePoint and WCM. I also warned you are going to have one hell of a ride with SharePoint and WCM! Well, lets get started then! To make things simpler, I have downloaded a website template called Jet30 from Templateworld.... [More]

SharePoint WCM – Breaking the Ice – Getting Started

SharePoint, with its Publishing Feature provides a powerful and extensible platform to build public facing websites, which are otherwise called as internet websites or public facing websites or WCM websites. Some of the top SharePoint (publishing) websites include - Ferrari, Cadbury, Hawaiian Airlin... [More]

jQuery Web Parts for SharePoint – Release v1.0.0.0

jQuery Web Parts for SharePoint brings the various jQuery UI elements to SharePoint as web parts. It uses jQuery SmartTools to integrate jQuery in SharePoint. Installation Instructions Available Web Parts - Accordion Web Part for Announcements List - News Ticker Web Part for Announcements List - I... [More]

Item-level Permissions for Document Libraries – Release v1.1.0.0

Just released Item-level Permission for Document Libraries v1.0.0.0. You can get it here. Changes in v1.1.0.0 - ILP now uses SharePoint Solution Installer for installation/un-installation - Fixed a bug with Timer Job & RunWithElevatedPriviliges - Changed the visibility of the ILP site colu... [More]

SharePoint 2010 – So far…continued

Now that SharePoint 2010 ‘buzz’ has become more popular, we see more and more links coming out. The tweets also tell that the Microsoft Partners who have been nominated & approved for Microsoft Partner Evidence Program (PEP) for 2010 products are getting Office 2010 server products... [More]