Deploying a SharePoint Master Page in a Feature
A few weeks back I was tasked with deploying some content to a site collection including a new master page. The requirements stated that upon activation of the feature, the…
Enable ASP.NET AJAX in Your SharePoint 2007 Farm
SharePoint 2007 does not enable ASP.NET AJAX by default. Although the process to enable ASP.NET AJAX on a SharePoint 2007 web application is rather straightforward, it can be time consuming…
Adding Configurable Properties to a SharePoint Web Part’s Tool Pane
In a previous post, we developed a simple web part to add two numbers together and display the result. It is a great introduction to web parts in the SharePoint…
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…
WSPBuilder Folder Structure
WSPBuilder makes the process of building WSP files extremely simple as illustrated in a previous post. WSPBuilder supports many features including deploying files to the 12 hive as well as…