Category: Technology
Installing SharePoint Designer 2010 (64 bit) with SharePoint Designer 2007 (32 bit)
A common problem many SharePoint developers and designers are facing with the release of SharePoint 2010 is that you can’t install both SharePoint Designer 2010 and 2007 on the same machine unless all your binaries are the same. On my...
SharePoint Site Navigation Settings not displaying Pages in Global or Current Navigation
I experienced a tremendously annoying issue today. After creating and publishing a new page on my SharePoint publishing site I went into the Site Actions > Site Settings > Modify Navigation to hide the newly created page from my navigation....
Free SharePoint 2010 Training
Critical Path Training is a offering a 10 week SharePoint 2010 webcast training series at no cost. The webcasts are being hosted by some of the best in the industry including: Andrew Connell Ted Pattison Asif Rehmani Scot Hillier David...
SharePoint 2010 Developer Hands On Labs
Microsoft has released 10 of the developer hands on labs that we had access to at the SharePoint Conference 2009 here. The labs are designed for use on the VPC images we had in the lab, but their easy enough...
SharePoint 2010 Lineup: Preview Guide
I thought I’d build upon my last blog and give a guide overview of the different SharePoint products in 2010. This is an excerpt from the material we got at the SharePoint Conference regarding the product lineup for 2010, and...
Microsoft Announces SharePoint 2010 Public Beta
Steve Ballmer announced this morning in his keynote Microsoft will be launching the public beta in November. Microsoft has been using the product internally with the 5000 members of their SharePoint team for a while now, but they just finished...
The end of Windows SharePoint Services
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) which was the free version of SharePoint that shipped with Windows Server in the past, is just that, a thing of the past. They’ve replaced WSS with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Server, which is the foundation for...
Updating the Toolbar type for SharePoint 2007 ListViewWebPart
I’ve recently run into quite a problem updating the toolbar property on the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart. It seems as if there should just be a property exposes of the ListViewWebPart called toolbar but there isn’t. I find a number of different articles...
Passing Rich Text Values into an InfoPath Form
One of the more frustrating experiences I encountered when creating InfoPath Task Forms for my SharePoint workflow was trying to take the richtext value from one form, and pass it into a richtext field on a second form. The problem...
The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the outgoing e-mail setting for the server are configured correctly
One of the common errors many people seem to have when creating a SharePoint Workflow is with the SendEmailActivity. When your task task executes you recieve an error message: The error message is frustrating because you know you’ve setup your...