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 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. 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 blog post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Let’s first create a SharePoint Hosted App. Choose “SharePoint-Hosted” option for “How do you want to host your app for SharePoint” in...

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 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...

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...

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 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. Let’s first talk about some basic facts about discussion board and alert terminologies. Discussion Board We all know about discussion board...

This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team.  The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution...

This blog post is a contribution from Balaji Sadasivan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Issue In order to audit workflows, we require to see the name of the workflow in the history list. Cause Currently the workflow history has...

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 Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team.  The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution...

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 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 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 blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. This article states, “with app parts, you can show your app user experience (UX) right in the host web.  An app part displays your app content...

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...

This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team.  The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution...

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...

Both CSR [Client-Side Rendering] and MDS [Minimal Download Strategy] are new concepts in SharePoint 2013.  I recently had a chance to work on an issue concerning CSR and MDS, which I thought I’d share through this post so that it is helpful for the...

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...

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 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...