Visualising Data in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010: Visualise Data, Chart Viewer Web Part VS Chart Web Part In SharePoint 2010, there is a couple of ways to display data in visually appealing charts (that certainly all managers enjoy)....
View ArticleCode: Developer Dashboard Enabler/Disabler
The SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Enabler/Disabler. As already mentioned, the Developer Dashboard can be enabled or disabled by the developer, through one of three ways: stsadm, Powershell and VS...
View ArticleIntro to: Custom Web Parts
Web Parts are the main ingredient that runs on SharePoint. Doesn’t matter which version of SharePoint you refer to, Web Parts have always been one of the core elements that allow users to interact with...
View ArticleIntro to: Interacting with SharePoint 2010 Data (post 2 – Server Object Model)
In a previous post, I made an introduction to interacting with SharePoint data through Web Services; easily, albeit a bit on the verbose side. In 2007, the way to go was by leveraging the Server Object...
View ArticleHow to: Use (or, avoid using) the “base.CreateChildControls()” method
You might have noticed the method ”base.CreateChildControls()” being used in some of the webpart examples I’ve been sharing. It turns out that the method is not entirely needed in those webparts....
View ArticleExplained: Visual web parts VS Standard web parts
If you’re working with Visual Studio to create a web part you will notice that there is a couple of templates you can choose from. First off, just like in SharePoint 2007, you have the standard web...
View ArticleHow to: Create a SP2007 Site Collection Template in VS2008 in XML only
So, the other day, I got a curious request. I was to provide a new site collection template, a custom template, that would be using no code whatsoever. The client did not want to deploy custom code to...
View ArticleHow to: Make a custom web part appear in the web part gallery (SP2007)
If you have a custom web part that does not appear in your web part gallery, the most probable cause is that you have not defined it in the module.xml file. Remember that, once you have created a...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot: “a web part or web form control on this page cannot be...
In case you renamed a custom web part, make sure you have renamed all the references to the web part: the .webpart file, the .cs and the all the relative methods, and if all is well, navigate to the...
View ArticleHow to: add properties to custom web parts
You can easily add custom properties to your custom web parts so that you can pass in values to them from the Edit panel. Depending on the nature of the property that you need to add, they differ...
View ArticleHow To: Edit a Content Editor WebPart’s presentation xslt
1. Edit a page 2. Add a Content Editor Web Part on the page 3. Edit the CEWP 4. Export the web part from the page (click on the arrow on the right of the web part and select export) 5. Save the file on...
View ArticleHow to: Create a folder roll-up web part to display the number of items in...
1. add a content query web part on your page. 2. edit web part 3. define the query 4. select the list type = Document Library 5. select the content type = Folder Content Types 6. select items of Folder...
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