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What is SharePoint? When to use it?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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, [...]

SharePoint Performance Optimization – Part 1

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

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

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!

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

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

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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  • 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...
  • sara: Try this too, Delete item from SharePoint List and more
  • jayashri kanungo: The video is slow. Usually when you run it for first time, it takes time but for subsequent time it...
  • Robert Woodlock: Thank you, sorry to ask, but would i add code to have this function automated.. Basically I was to...