Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
Web Part requires clicking twice the Apply/OK button to apply the changes
Recently I was debugging a Web Part which had an issue with applying its changes. It required clicking the Apply/OK button twice in order to apply the changes. While this problem is quite commonly seen in different examples on the Internet, the solution is very simple.
SharePoint Server MVP for another year
I would like to make use of this occasion and thank everyone who helped make this happen and people from the SharePoint community who have been my inspiration for the last 12 months.
Imtech Get SPMetal Definition Extension – Now with support for Lists!
A few weeks ago I published an extension for the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools that simplifies working with SPMetal. Upon installation the extension adds a menu to every Site node in SharePoint Explorer. Using that menu option you can generate the SPMetal definition just as if you would use the SPMetal command line interface itself.
Debugging SharePoint Commands – Extending Visual Studio SharePoint development tools tip #8
One of the cool things about the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools is the ability to communicate with SharePoint to retrieve and work with SharePoint content. Running SharePoint code in the context of a Visual Studio SharePoint development tools extension is pretty simple, but you do have to know one thing in order to be able to debug it.
Getting open document by name – Extending Visual Studio SharePoint development tools tip #7
One of the many great things that the Visual Studio SharePoint development tools allow you to do is to help you automate and simplify working with SharePoint content without leaving Visual Studio. Knowing how to retrieve a document opened in Visual Studio using its name, is one of the basic things you need to know to make your extension really powerful.