tips & tricks
Working with Site Definitions using the Visual Studio SharePoint development tools
One of the new capabilities of the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools is support for creating Site Definitions. Using the Site Definition SharePoint Project Template you can create and test Site Definition. In order to fully benefit of the new tools there are a couple of things you have to keep in mind.
Leveraging ASP.NET User Controls in SharePoint development
In the last Web Content Management (WCM) project built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 I’ve worked on, we’ve used a couple of new tools and development approaches. One of such things was leveraging the power of ASP.NET UserControls for developing Page Layouts and Web Parts – approach promoted by fellow SharePoint MVP Chris O’Brien.
SharePoint RTE breaks in IE8 when in editing mode
Since a couple of days I’m working on a brand new Web Content Management solution on MOSS 2007. For the first time I’ve started off using Internet Explorer 8. Considering the changes the IE team has made to the DOM rendering I wasn’t surprised when I saw that some of the SharePoint functionality doesn’t work properly in IE8.
Imtech SharePoint Gems: SPUrlExpressionBuilder
Recently, while working on a SharePoint solution I have rediscovered the SPUrlExpressionBuilder class – one of the many hidden gems of SharePoint 2007. After some research it turned out to be more than the URL tokenizer we know from WSSv3.
Inconvenient Control Adapters
Control Adapters are a great way to modify the presentation layer of any control out there: no matter whether it’s sealed or internal. And while they are pretty easy to setup you can find yourself spending a couple of hours if somehow they seem not to be applied…