This is just a little tip, but sometimes they are the ones that help people the most. I was trying to figure out how to add the new SharePoint 2010 Media Web Part to a page. No matter where I looked in the list of available Web Parts, I just wasn’t seeing it. Blog posts…
My Links in SharePoint is something that either no one uses or everyone uses; I rarely see any middle ground. In case you aren’t familiar with My Links, you get to them by clicking on the My Links link in the header of most pages in SharePoint, as highlighted below. (My Links is available in…
I was working with a client today to try to figure out an error and we saw a pattern which I wanted to document here in case anyone else ran across it. The first diagnosis was “corrupt permissions”, but that turned out not to be it at all. The issue was on a site with…
I spotted a couple of things out in the InterWebs yesterday that I thought would be of general interest. First, there’s a new version of SPDisposeCheck. The announcement of this over on Roger Lamb’s SharePoint Developer Blog gives a good overview of the changes. Specifically: SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check…
One of the comments I sometimes get when I talk about the beauty of Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) in SharePoint is “You know, XSL is a declarative language, not a procedural one.” I gave a talk last night at the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) called Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier and it…
Earlier this year, SharePoint Magazine became a part of the USPJ Academy family. Yesterday, we relaunched a revamped SharePoint Magazine on a more robust platform (it’s still WordPress at its core) along with some fresh content. We’re looking for some authors to join us. If you’ve ever considered joining the SharePoint writing community, this might…
I got a question today via email that I though would be good to address in a post. The person who sent it didn’t want to publicly ask the questions so that s/he wouldn’t be “sowing any seeds of doubt for using” SPServices. Now that 2010 is here with its WCF services and Client Model,…
In SharePoint 2010, you’ll sometimes see that the Quick Launch has a draggable right border so that you can resize it, *if* you have the Tree View enabled. That seems sort of useful, eh? But why the heck is it there some of the time and not other times? We wondered just that and decided…
Yesterday I posted Are Ampersands Stored Differently in SharePoint 2010 Than SharePoint 2007? This one has really gotten me interested. I decided to try calling the Lists Web Service with SPServices to see if there’s a difference in what is returned for the exact same items in SharePoint 2007 versus SharePoint 2010 (post upgrade). Here’s what I…
In my conversations with IT departments about how SharePoint is used in their organizations, the topic of old and/or dormant sites almost always comes up. The IT way to think about this is to immediately bring up ideas like “archive” or “delete”. We can get that disk space back! Our job will get easier! I…