Jul31
While working on a project I recently created a web part where I could specify a set of criteria and it would display hyperlinks to all site collections that matched. The nice thing about this web part is that you get a list of site collections that match a wide variety of criteria. Some of the criteria that could be specified was the template type, URL wildcard matching, web application, etc...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 31 Jul 2009 10:57.
Jul29
The data view Web Part I must say is probably my absolute favorite thing Microsoft included with SharePoint. It also has some really nice filtering capabilities built-in. Most of us are probably familiar with the Sort and Group dialog that is part of the Common Data View Tasks shown in the image below.
What most people don't realize is that the Data View Web Part has a very nice toolbar ...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Wednesday, 29 Jul 2009 09:16.
Jul27
This weekend I made the 4 and a half hour drive up to Dallas for the SharePoint Saturday event. This was the first SharePoint Saturday that I have attended and overall, I was really impressed. I have to give Kudos to Eric Shupps for organizing the event. I also want to thank those who attended my presentation and I hope that you enjoyed it. I know all of you are spending your Monday eager...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Monday, 27 Jul 2009 11:58.
Jul23
Uses of Custom Field Types WSS 3.0 and MOSS have a rich set of field types that ship from Microsoft which can probably handle all of your needs. There comes a time when you just want a little more though. Allow me to introduce you to custom field types. With custom field types you can do more than store text, numbers, dates, and even some HTML. You can store, display, and int...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Thursday, 23 Jul 2009 08:43.
Jun5
I recently created a series of SharePoint features that when activated would produce a highly customized SharePoint site. These features are highly dependant on each other so they must be activated in order or there might be problems. I also wanted to make provisioning of the sites as easy as possible for end users so that they would not have to manually activate these custom features. To a...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:11.
Apr16
Often times during the course of a development project you may want to easily obtain the PublicKeyToken used to sign the assembly. Most people will add the assembly to the GAC and then use the properties dialog to copy out the information needed to register the assembly with its complete signature. This is especially true for modifying the web.config when doing any type of web or SharePoint dev...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Wednesday, 16 Apr 2008 02:30.