This is kind of a silly little thing really, but I just stumbled upon it because it's one of those things that when you are trying to do it, you end up pulling your hair out trying to remember how. Just wanted to show a rather inventive and simple method...

In the first three parts of this series we've implemented just about all of the support needed to do an end-to-end claims provider. In this last post I'll describe how to name resolution support in the type-in control. To add this support we'll need to...

In the first two parts in this series we've seen how to create a custom provider, do claims augmentation and register the provider, as well as how to add a hierarchy to the people picker. In this post we'll talk about how to implement searching for our...

In Part 1 of this series we showed how to create a custom claims provider, and how to do claims augmentation. In part 2 were going to show a simple way to add a hierarchy to the people picker control. In and of itself this isn't necessarily interesting...

This is the first in a series of blogs in which I'll talk about writing a custom claims provider. First, it's probably worth understanding a little background on what a claims provider is and why we might want to use one. A claims provider in SharePoint...

Search connector links are a really slick feature that integrates SharePoint 2010 search with Windows 7. When you search in a SharePoint 2010 site from a Windows 7 machine, you will see a little icon in the search results on the top left part of the results...