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Archive for March, 2009

Set the SharePoint Welcome Page through code

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!You might end up with this requirement quite often to set your custom page as a welcome page for site/subsite instead of default.aspx provided by SharePoint.
Its quite a tedious job to set up default pages manually when you have [...]

Programmatically Delete all items from a SharePoint List

At times we want to delete all the items from a SharePoint List. Here are some excellent solutions to delete all the SharePoint list items efficiently.
Below is the PurgeList method from Keith Richie which does an excellent job of Purging items in a list. Here is a CodePlex tool and  one more solution to [...]

SharePoint - Add IntelliSense when editing CAML files in WSS v3 / MOSS 2007

After years of developing code using VS.NET IntelliSense feature its pretty painful to write CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) in XML files where IntelliSense is not available by default.

SharePoint - Add or Delete Site Column reference from Content Types

Content type does not contain a column, or field. It only contains a reference to a site column or field. Therefore you should create a site column before you can add it to the content type definition.

SharePoint - Add folders to Document Library programmatically

Today I had a requirement to add folders programmatically to the default ‘Site Collection Images’ document library. Its quite simple and can easily be achieved with few lines of code. Here is a method of how to do that:

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  • fred: The above mentioned tips are helpful. However, by the use of a third-party caching solution for SharePoint you...
  • Ramiz Uddin: Praveen, I would need your help. I’m new on sharepoint and very much confused with its deployment...
  • Maarten: Hi! I tried your code, it works great. However, I don’t see the created folder in explorer view. How...
  • Praveen Modi: Juan, seems like it should work but I haven’t tried it. I will give it a try and will update the...
  • Juan Larios: couldn’t you just do: SPFolderCollection collection = site.Lists["Site Collection...