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SharePoint 2010 UI Tip: non-obtrusive progress messages
SharePoint 2010 ships with a new User Interface framework that allows you to easily create rich user experiences. While developing custom solutions one of the challenges is to communicate long-running operations with the user: after all there is nothing more annoying than a non-responsive UI. Find out how the new UI framework of SharePoint 2010 supports communicating the progress notifications to users.
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Disable inserting Web Parts in the SharePoint 2010 Rich Text Editor
SharePoint 2010 ships with a brand new Rich Text Editor which has a dozen of new capabilities. One of those capabilities allows you to insert Web Parts in content which can help you add some rich functionality to your content. And while it sounds pretty cool there are scenarios when you might want to turn inserting Web Parts in content off. In this article you can read about how you can disable inserting Web Parts in the SharePoint 2010 Rich Text Editor.
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Inconvenient ASP.NET cookies
Recently I’ve been working on a SharePoint solution that was persisting some state information. Originally this solution was relying on Session State but because of some extra configuration complexity that using Session State with SharePoint requires we decided to replace the Session State with cookies. Although both approaches are not exactly the same they were both sufficient in the scope of the solution. And although you might expect no rocket science when working with ASP.NET cookies there are a few things that keeping in mind might save you some painful hours.
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SharePoint 2010 Application Pages and Modal Dialogs the easy way
SharePoint 2010 ships with the new Modal Dialog framework that allows you to display dialog windows in an unobtrusive and user friendly way. This is extremely important when creating user friendly solutions as it allows users to preserve their context while providing some additional information. While the new modal dialog framework is definitely a great idea, there is one thing missing in the implementation: support for communicating with custom application pages.
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SharePoint 2010 Page Components in Sandboxed Solutions
SharePoint 2010 ships with the new Ribbon framework that allows you to easily extend the Ribbon with new functionality. All Ribbon extensions consist of the UI and behavior, which in simple scenarios can be specified declaratively but in more advanced scenarios would rely on a Page Component. Most samples, that show using Page Components, suggest registering them using Delegate Controls. Unfortunately this makes it impossible to use Page Component in Sandboxed Solutions which don’t support Delegate Controls. So are we forced to use the limited declarative approach or is there a solution that would allow us to register custom Page Components within Sandboxed Solutions?