This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. When developing a custom claims provider, you may need to retrieve user information from Active Directory (AD) with LDAP query programmatically....

This blog post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Scenario: In SharePoint, the sign out is complete only when you actually close the browser window.  As shown below, SharePoint asks you...

This blog post is a contribution from Mustaq Patel, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer support team. SharePoint Apps provides a great deal of flexibility and how much we can do with it. Using WebTemplate we can direct AppWeb (the SPWeb under which...

This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. RunWithElevatedPrivileges executes the specified method with Full Control rights even if the user does not otherwise have Full Control. This is not...

This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In a scenario that you want to render Web Analytics report data to your favorite format, you need to retrieve the report data. There’s no document...

This post is a contribution from Himani Sharma, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Requirement You want to use custom Association and Initiation forms with your Visual Studio workflows. InfoPath forms do not fulfill your requirement...

This post is a contribution from Himani Sharma, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Scenario: You have a workflow custom action that you’d like to be used in SharePoint 2010 workflow.  This activity uses Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions...

This post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In this blog I will describe how to develop a custom site event receiver to prevent users from deleting a SharePoint site. By default, any user...

This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Note: The below walk-through is based off of a publishing site. We can include symbols in rich text editor in MOSS 2007 in just 3 easy steps...

This post is a contribution from Amy Luu, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Steps to repro this problem: 1. Create a new team site in SharePoint 2010 and save this site as template (ts.wsp).  Download the WSP to your local drive...

This post is a contribution from Bharat Rathod, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. By default, SharePoint 2010 allows you to add multiple items in the calendar for the same date and time.  Below screenshot shows that Meeting1...

This post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In this blog, I will describe how to develop a custom web part that dynamically fetches items from a SharePoint list.  By “dynamic”, I mean...

This post is a contribution from Raghavendra Nanjaiah, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. On a SharePoint 2010 SP1 environment when you try to build Silverlight 4 or 5 solution with the following settings: Create a new “Silverlight...

This post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Content Query Web Part is a nice way to query and display data from multiple lists.  By default, when you click on a link displayed in the...

This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. To use WebAnalytics API, first we need to add reference to Microsoft.Office.Server.WebAnalytics.dll and Microsoft.Office.Server.WebAnalytics...

This post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Recently, one of my customers came up with an issue related to user profiles.  The problem was for certain users, profile picture wasn’t showing...

This post is a contribution from Nishand Vasudevan, an escalation engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Disabling the event receivers can stop the workflow events.  For example, disabling the event can stop workflow from starting and...

This post is a contribution from Nishand Vasudevan, an escalation engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The property bag is intended for small properties, like configuration or other settings.  Accessing the property bag will require...

Recently, I had a case where customer was creating SPAlert object using SharePoint object model code and things were not working out well. What seem to happen was that whenever the condition that warrants alert trigger is met (e.g., an item is changed...

This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Let’s first talk about some basic facts about discussion board and alert terminologies. Discussion Board We all know about discussion board...

This post is a contribution from Chanchal Jain, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. If you have a SharePoint Server installation and you have the SharePoint Search Application configured, you’ll be able to perform search in the SharePoint...

What’s CMIS Connector for SharePoint 2010? This post is a contribution from Chanchal Jain, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) connector for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables...