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Windows 7 Vs Windows Server 2008 for SharePoint Development

By Praveen Modi ⋅ June 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Microsoft made some great improvements with SharePoint 2010 and one of significant one is that now you can run SharePoint 2010 on client Operating Systems like Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Vista with SP2.
Now the question arises if one should use Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 for development? I would suggest Windows Server 2008 [...]

What is SharePoint? When to use it?

By Praveen Modi ⋅ August 15, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Microsoft SharePoint team has released an excellent video that explains in simple terms what SharePoint is, and why/how people use it.
If you’re dealing with people who are new to SharePoint and finding it hard to explain what it is, this video might be a savior. It also great to include in a client pitch [...]

SharePoint Performance Optimization – Part 1

By Praveen Modi ⋅ August 2, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Use 64-bit Win Server 2008 servers for Web servers
Next version of SharePoint will be 64-bit only is a good enough reason to use a 64-bit operating system (Windows Server 2008) for all new installation. If you plan for and implement 64-bit MOSS now, it may make your upgrade path in the future a little [...]

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek

By Praveen Modi ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Today, Microsoft announced that SharePoint 2010 has reached the technical preview engineering milestone and sneak peek videos are available on Microsoft official site. Microsoft didn’t shared the completely details about SharePoint 2010 at this point but promises to go much deeper & broader at the SharePoint Conference in October. With whatever initial information that is [...]

Hotfix for SP2 that reverts SharePoint products to Trial Version is released

By Praveen Modi ⋅ June 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Microsoft has released a fix for the SP2 problem that reverts the license into a Trial version after installing Service Pack 2.
Check KB article (971620) for more details. However the links to the download page mentioned in the article are not working and resulting in standard error page.
Thanks to Stephen Gossner for providing download location [...]

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE!

By Praveen Modi ⋅ April 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Microsoft is now offering its Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for free. As of today it selling for $200+ on on Amazon.
Here is the download link on Microsoft for SharePoint Designer 2007.

Set the SharePoint Welcome Page through code

By Praveen Modi ⋅ March 27, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

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 more than 10 site/subsites. Its pretty easy to do it programmatically. Here is how:
public [...]

Programmatically Delete all items from a SharePoint List

By Praveen Modi ⋅ March 27, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

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

By Praveen Modi ⋅ March 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By Praveen Modi ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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.