In our previous post, we saw how to build user controls and reference the same from our Home Page layout. In this post lets see how we can retrieve the Latest News from a SharePoint List rather than static HTML code. Latest News Jet30 publishes their latest news daily and wishes to show them in th... [More]

In our previous post, we saw how to build a Page Layout for our Jet30 site. Today we will see how to build user controls. We will dissect some of the parts of the Home Page and build them as user controls. So, for those who don’t remember our Home Page, below is a screenshot: And weeks bac... [More]

In our previous post, we saw how to build a SharePoint Master Page with custom branding. Let us now build a Page Layout. A page layout defines various components in a page – web parts or field controls or static content etc., MSDN describes the relationship between a master page & page la... [More]

The patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance team have just released a new Guidance for Developing SharePoint Applications. Whether you are a newbie or an intermediate or an experienced SharePoint developer, this guide is going to help you improve your SharePoint development skills. Many people ... [More]

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, 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 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]

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]

  [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]

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]