Adding your own custom columns to the Sharepoint SPBuiltInFieldId class
When coding for SharePoint I always use the class “SPBuiltInFieldId” in code when retrieving fields. When creating my own fields I miss the ability to use the same class to get my own field id’s. I...
View ArticleCreating custom service application proxy groups
In SharePoint 2010 every webapplication can be connected to the default service application connection group. It is also possible to use the custom group which allows you to choose which service...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 ribbon tabs disappear when you click on them
Consider the following problem: You open a SharePoint 2010 site. You navigate to All Site Content and then random navigate to a list. In my example a Shared Documents Library. When the list is opened...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 HTML MetaTag Control
SharePoint 2010 HTML MetaTag Control For SEO purpose it is sometimes necessary to render HTML MetaTags. In my case I want to render the Description MetaTag. SharePoint doesn’t offer way to generate...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Creating a sub web based on a site collection provisoned...
Consider the following scenario. You create a webtemplate wich you deploy with a farm feature. All other webtemplates that you use for subsites are deployed with a site collection feature activated...
View ArticleThe server farm account should not be used for other services for User...
The User Profile Sync service has to run under the Farm account. But doing this causes a error to appear in the SharePoint 2010 health analyzer. I use a simple trick to prevent this error from showing...
View ArticleCreate Applications and Credentials in SharePoint Secure Store Service with C#
For a project I was working on, I needed to read and write ApplicationId’s and Credentials to the Secure Store Service in SharePoint 2010. This is a helper class I created to perform some actions. You...
View ArticleFirst character SharePoint 2010 internal field name replaced with its...
In a project I am working on I created a site column and a contenttype with xml. Here is my site column: Here is my contentype: I deploy this xml wih a feature on my site. The contenttype is added to...
View ArticleSharePoint 20210 Taxonomy values not visible for some users
In a project I am working on some users didn’t see the value of a Taxonomy column in a list view or in display or edit form. When logging in with another user account the value was visible. After some...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 claim based authentication, new HttpWebRequest with use...
Hi, At a customer site I am working at SharePoint 2010 was running in claim based mode with Kerberos. In a piece of code I was running I used a new HttpWebRequest object to retrieve images from a...
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