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When to use which Web Part template?

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Various Web Part templates in Visual Studio 2010
If you have used the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools you have probably noticed that there are multiple SharePoint Project Item Templates to create Web Parts from. Find out which of them make the most sense in what scenarios. Read more »

Using SPContext.Current is no guarantee for great performance

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Warning about an extra roundtrip caused by requesting information from a column outside the current Content Type
It is a common best practice, while working with the SharePoint server API, to always use context objects whenever possible. Because they have been already instantiated by SharePoint itself, reusing context data doesn’t cause additional calls to the database and allows you to create good performing solutions. However, just because you use SPContext.Current in your code, doesn’t mean your solution is built properly. Read more »

Check the quality of your SharePoint 2010 Internet-facing website with Mavention SharePoint 2010 Site Checker

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Mavention SharePoint 2010 Site Checker report title
How good is your Internet-facing website built on the SharePoint 2010 platform? Read more »

Hierarchical titles vs. paged overviews

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Page title of the blog overview on mavention.nl with the page number included in the title
Every page should have a unique title. Unique titles can help you not only optimize your content for search engines but also improve the user experience. Hierarchical titles can help you make your page titles more usable but there is more to it if you’re using paged overviews. Find out how to generate unique titles for pages that use paged overviews in SharePoint 2010. Read more »

Inconvenient SharePoint 2010 mobile redirect

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A Web Part showing a welcome message for mobile browsers in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 ships with support for mobile devices. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with anonymous users what makes it unsuitable for Internet-facing websites. The real challenge is that there is no easy way of turning it off. While there are some workarounds they are far from ideal. Find out how to properly make SharePoint 2010 support mobile devices on Internet-facing websites. Read more »

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