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

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 »

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 »

In my previous article I showed you how you can configure the SharePoint 2010 Rich Text Editor to help you do content authoring in a consistent fashion. We discussed what a Rich Text Editor should and should not allow to support consistent user experience within a website and how it can be done in SharePoint 2010. Although the configuration options of the Rich Text Editor in SharePoint 2010 allow you to achieve some neat results, it isn’t fool proof and this is exactly what we will discuss in this article: how to not only configure the RTE’s UI for consistent content authoring but also how to ensure that the authored content is consistent. Read more »