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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island: Our Campervan Adventure Part 2
We were now heading to Timaru, a town on the East coast, where we hoped to get a sighting of the world’s smallest penguin, then to the Moeraki Boulders and the Shag Rocks and thence to Dunedin. more …
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Attach the ECB Menu to another field in SharePoint 2010
One of the things that we’ve often wanted to do in SharePoint 2010 is to not have to have the Edit Control Block or ECB attached to the Title field, if you’re not sure what the ECB is, it’s that drop down menu on the standard List View page. For instance, recently I wanted… more …
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Getting SharePoint 2010 JavaScript Intellisense to Work in VS2010
I’ve been struggling with getting JavaScript Intellisense to work on and off over the last few months. I keep trying, finding it not working, so I go and do something else instead. But I’m involved in a small project right now in which I was determined to get it working and finally, I have… more …
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<native> error when using Custom Content Type in Custom List Template
I found an odd issue using the Visual Studio 2010 Tools the other day. Only just gotten around to writing about this, as it’s been a hectic few weeks. Well it’s not odd, but it caused me a few head scratching moments until I realised what was going on. Here’s the scenario: I create… more …
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SharePoint XSLT and Databinding …
Had to put this here as it’s such a great article which shows the power of SharePoint – such an oddity at times – yet so much work has gone into the platform. http://www.bryancook.net/2009/09/understanding-sharepoints-ddwrtdatabind.html Basically how you can use standard ASP.NET controls to bind to SharePoint Fields using a little trick involving XSLT …… more …
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Custom Field fails to Show in Custom Content Type
This has to be one of the weirdest things I’ve seen for ages – and there are a few weird things in SharePoint believe me. I was trying to add a Custom Field to a Custom Content Type -I’ve done this many time before. But no matter what I did I couldn’t get the… more …
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Speaking at SharePoint European Best Practices Conference
Just got an email from the organisers of the SharePoint Eurpoean Best practices Conference in London between 11th and 13th April 2011, saying they’ve picked one of my sessions. Don’t know which one yet … Hopefully see you there! Cheers Dave Mc more …
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Debugging a VS2010 Website in IIS 7.0
Working on my standalone box, I wanted to do some debuggign specifically in IIS 7.0. It was quite easy to set up when you know how. After a bit of digging here’s what I did. Created a VS2010 ASP.NET Web Application In WebSite Properties, select ‘Use Custom Server’ and enter in your base Url.… more …
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SharePoint Custom Site Definition “A list, survey, discussion board, or document library with the specified title already exists in this Web site. Please choose another title”
This drove me mad! I created a couple of custom Site Definitions and had a matching webtemp*****.xml file. Or so I thought! But I had made a typo and a Site Definition which I had created using the Publishing Provisioning Assembly was being referenced by another Site Definition. A Site Definition which uses… more …
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SharePoint 2007 Audiences Not Showing All Users
Had an issue today with SharePoint 2007 Audiences. We had 3 Users in AD Group A, and had configured an Audience to include Users from Group A. No matter what we tried, Incremental Profile Imports, Full Profile Imports, we couldn’t get the Audience to compile with the correct users. I noticed in the… more …
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