Waldek Mastykarz - Innovation Matters | SharePoint Server MVP | ISSN 2210-9390

SharePoint 2010 ships with Excel REST Services that allow us to request pieces of Excel Sheets using a URL. Unfortunately things get pretty complicated when you try to make Excel REST Services available to your anonymous visitors. Find out how to deal with Excel REST Services and anonymous users. Read more »

Removing the form runat=server tag from the Master Page is one of the ways to optimize Internet-facing websites built on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Unfortunately it also means losing some functionality such as Web Parts in content. Find out how to combine minimal Master Page markup with Web Parts in content. Read more »

Caching files using BLOB cache is a great performance improvement in SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management solutions. Unfortunately it turns out, that if your files are dynamically created, they are not being cached by BLOB cache. So is creating a custom caching solution the only option to have a good performing solution? Read more »

Using structured and repeatable deployment in SharePoint 2010 solutions allows you to deliver your solution in a predictable fashion and save some time. With the SharePoint 2010 API you can script the deployment process to deliver your solution already preconfigured. Unfortunately there are some limitations in the SharePoint API that make it impossible to configure some pieces of the solution, like configuring the menu items. It turns out that it is possible after all. Find out how to programmatically configure menu items in SharePoint 2010. Read more »

In MOSS 2007 solutions one of the fixes to get cleaner and more accessible HTML markup was to remove Web Part tables using Control Adapters. Because SharePoint 2010 allows us to insert Web Parts in content there is more to this challenge. Find out what has changed and how to deal with it in SharePoint 2010. Read more »