My Favorite Visual Studio 2010 Theme
I’ve always been a fan of visual studio themes with a darker background as I find that the white background of the default theme tends to hurt my eyes after…
How To Create a Basic SharePoint Web Part
A large part of SharePoint's power comes from the fact that the interface is completely pluggable. Users can add web parts to pages of their choice in order to add…
Executing Code in Assemblies with SharePoint CustomActions
In my previous post, I discussed the basics of using a CustomAction to enhance the functionality of a content type. We used a CustomAction to redirect and pass some parameters…
CustomAction Basics in SharePoint
CustomActions allow you to provide an easy way for an end user to perform some sort of action on or with a specific list item that is not available in…
Feature Receiver Basics
As you begin developing more and more complex features to be deployed to SharePoint, you will most likely come across the need to perform some additional actions when your feature…
Using Local Config Files with WSPBuilder
Using WSPBuilder is rather straight-forward and for most features the default configuration settings work fine. But what happens when you want to include custom CAS policies or change the default…
How To Properly Enumerate User Profiles using the SharePoint User Profile Web Service
Recently I had a need to pull all user profiles out of our SharePoint farm in order to push them into a middle-tier database that my team was building. Since…
ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods Performance Analysis
As we have previously seen, ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods are a great way to return the minimum amount of data required in an AJAX request. But the question remains, just…
ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods
ASP.NET contains some controls which makes adding AJAX features to your application rather easy. For example, Microsoft has provided us with the UpdatePanel. The UpdatePanel control allows you to partially…
Intro to the ASP.NET Charting Control
A few months back Microsoft released a free charting control for .NET. You can download the charting control and the plugin for VS2008 at the following links: Charting Control: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&DisplayLang=en…